WILDLABS
World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
You’re invited to the WILDLABS Variety Hour, our monthly community event connecting you to the exciting projects, research, and ideas that are happening in conservation tech right now.
You never know what you’ll find and who you’ll meet at our Variety Hour, and that’s part of the fun! You might catch speed talks from community members working around the world, learn from a leading conservation tech expert, discover a new tool, test your wildlife trivia skills, or find a great opportunity. Maybe you’ll even do all of the above!
The WILDLABS Variety Hour isn’t a show, or a lecture, or a workshop. It's an engaging, fun, and interactive gathering that gives you a welcoming space to share your own projects and resources, ask and answer questions, have insightful conversations, meet collaborators, make friends, and get to know the conservation tech community in a new way.
Great ideas and discussions are sparked when people with a passion for conservation tech unite. When you come to the Variety Hour, you’re joining a space full of people who care about conservation tech just like you; when you leave the Variety Hour, we hope you’ll take away fresh inspiration and the knowledge that you belong to a global community making an impact in our field worldwide.
This month, we'll have three speed talks from Héloïse Frouin-Mouy, Diego Balbuena, Lucie Laporte-Devylder, and Kakani Katija.
Héloïse Frouin-Mouy will kick off August's Variety Hour by taking us 650 meters below the surface of the sea to a deep-see cabled observatory, where high-tech sensors and cameras are providing unprecedented glimpses into the daily lives of northern elephant seals. Then, Diego Balbuena will share how he works with local wildlife authorities to tag rescued and rehabilitated Andean condors, tagging them with GSM GPS trackers to monitor their reintroduction and learn more about the species. After that, Lucie Laporte-Devylder will cover how WildDrone is using thermal drones to monitor cetaeans and provide information on behaviors such as orientation and swim dynamics. Finally, Kakani Katija will introduce us to FathomVerse, a free mobile game that offers an interactive community science experience where players can engage with real ocean images collected by researchers and robots from around the world.
Agenda
- Héloïse Frouin-Mouy | Unveiling Northern Elephant Seal Behavior at 650 Meters: Insights from a Deep-Sea Cabled Observatory
- Diego Balbuena | Tracking rescued Andean Condors through GSM in the peruvian Andes
- Lucie Laporte-Devylder | Wild Drone: thermal drones for non-invasive monitoring of cetaceans
- Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz
- Kakani Katija | FathomVerse: Explore the depths in an interactive community science experience
Past Recordings
Can't wait for this Variety Hour? Why not check out our past events! You can find all of the on our YouTube Channel.
- Variety Hour June | Hear about Move BON, a new initiative to mobilize animal tracking data in support of national and global scale conservation goals, a multi-sensor bee monitoring system, thermal imaging applications in conservation, and an effort to build an AI-assisted evidence synthesis pipeline using LLMs, with the ultimate goal of building a living evidence database that is able to keep up the the rapidly growing scientific literature.
- Variety Hour April | Featuring talks from @Annacq on bridging biodiversity and business, @BrunaTeixeira on using acoustic indexes as an indicator of anthropogenic pressure, @kklibra on mitigating human-wildlife conflict & illegal trade through IT solutionsm, and (@capreolus on bridging classical biodiversity monitoring with emerging bioacoustics and AI
- Variety Hour March | This month we're talking about making AI more accessible with Pytorch, new developments from WildMe and TagRanger, and working with geospatial data with Fauna & Flora.
- Variety Hour October | This month to hear about a low-cost design for an aquatic stereo camera, a cost-effective design for nocturnal, infrared video recording, The Inventory, the dynamic, wiki-inspired platform we've been building for conservation tech, and a whirlwind update of google's work on AI for nature.
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