Conservation Technology Meetup!

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Description:  Conservation technology brings together those working across computer science, engineering, ecology, biodiversity monitoring, animal behavior and environmental science. This budding multidisciplinary field has grown massively in recent years due to the emergence of low-cost hardware, artificial intelligence (AI), and user-friendly software platforms. Conservation technologies such as camera traps, acoustic recorders, drones, biologgers, eDNA, mobile apps, computer vision models, and remote sensing/Earth observation have profoundly expanded the spatial and temporal scale at which biodiversity monitoring can take place. This has allowed conservationists, local communities, NGOs, government agencies and citizen scientists alike unprecedented access to actionable data that can inform effective conservation and sustainability initiatives.

We invite anyone involved with or just interested in conservation tech to join us for a meetup at the ESA conference! Some of the great strengths of conservation tech stem from its multidisciplinarity and collaborative community, which is ever-expanding. This is intended to be an informal meetup for conservation technologists (or those interested in it!) to get to know each other and learn about what everyone is working on, and to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing. We will also share some general resources on how to get involved and engage with the broader global conservation tech community. We’re also planning a bit of show-and-tell; some of us organizers will be bringing hardware for folks to check out. If you want to join in (not at all required), please do bring along whatever gadgets you’ve got in your lab/office/garage/etc.!

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