The WILDLABS Variety Hour: October 2024

The WILDLABS Variety Hour is your monthly connection to the exciting projects, research, and ideas that are happening in conservation tech right now.
This month, Lars Holst Hansen tells us about PolarBearWatchDog and how utilizing IP cameras and central single board computer processing helps real-time polar bear monitoring. Seamus Lombardo tells us about Planet's Project Centinela, a new program to help leading scientists, conservationists, and stewards monitor and safeguard up to 50 of the world’s vulnerable biodiversity hotspots by putting an unprecedented array of high-resolution, high-frequency satellite imagery, analytics, and Planetary Variables into the hands of those who are maintaining a lifeline for biodiversity and the communities who depend on that variety of life. Phil Atkin then talks about the four devices in the pipistrelle family of ultra-affordable bat detectors: the pippyg static detector, pipistrelle handheld detector/recorder, pipistrelle mini handheld detector, and Bat Detector USB microphone and iPhone app,. Finally, Jessie Kendall-Bar shares more information on an interactive data-driven browser for exploring high-dimensional biologging data in 3D that allows viewing and sharing co-occurring features in high-resolution physiological sensors alongside changes in body posture, behaviour, and three-dimensional trajectories.
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Agenda:
Lars Holst Hansen | PolarBearWatchDog: Advancing Arctic safety with an AI-driven polar bear detection system
Seamus Lombardo | Planet's Project Centinela: Monitoring Vulnerable Biodiversity Hotspots for Conservation Action
Phil Atkin | Pipistrelle family of ultra-affordable bat detectors
Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz
Jessie Kendall-Bar | Lessons from sleep in the deep: Engineering biosensors, workflows, and communication tools for ocean science
Music by - Filip Hnízdo