Underwater ‘Doorbell’ Helps Scientists Catch Coral-Eating Fish in Florida
March 19th, 2025
Via The Guardian, an article on the use of innovative cameras to identify fish species hindering coral reef restoration: Marine scientists in Florida working to help reverse a calamitous decades-long decline in coral reefs caught fishy “porch pirates” in the act with an innovative underwater doorbell-style surveillance camera. The footage showed that three corallivorous species – redband […]
Read More »Costa Rica Is Saving Forest Ecosystems by Listening to Them
February 26th, 2025
Via Wired, a report on how monitoring the noises within ecosystems reveals their health—allowing researchers to monitor changes in biodiversity, detect threats, and measure the effectiveness of conservation strategies: Monica Retamosa was in the middle of changing the batteries of a tape recorder when she heard a bellbird for the first time. Standing on a forest […]
Read More »An AI-Powered Robot and Gaming Are Helping Scientists Identify New Deep-Sea Species
January 30th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, an article on how an AI-powered robot and gaming are helping scientists identify new deep-sea species: Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck of the research vessel Rachel Carson and lowers it into Monterey Bay’s choppy gunmetal-gray waters. The […]
Read More »How to Tell a Leopard from Its Roar: Making A Shazam For Conservationists
January 14th, 2025
Via Nautilus, a report on how to tell a leopard from its roar and the potential to make a Shazam for conservationists: The leopard’s roar is a distinct sound. A repetitive pattern of hoarse and guttural calls, it is often compared to the rough music of a saw being pushed and pulled through a giant […]
Read More »Digitizing Forests To Prevent Wildfires
January 1st, 2025
Via The Economist, a look at initial steps to digitize our forests by using new technology to sniff out fires long before they spread out of control: The fires went on for three relentless days in the summer of 2021, scorching over 13,000 hectares of western Sardinia. Residents “saw their whole world go up in flames […]
Read More »The Race to Translate Animal Sounds Into Human Language
December 22nd, 2024
Via Wired, a look at how – with big cash prizes at stake and AI supercharging research—interspecies translation is closer than ever. But what, if anything, would animals want to tell us? In 2025 we will see AI and machine learning leveraged to make real progress in understanding animal communication, answering a question that has […]
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