Why isn't there an Arduino style platform for biologging and satellite telemetry? It's a question that the Arribada...
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We’re all in this together. My Shuttleworth Fellowship
I'm a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow. In around 5 months time I'll transition to Alumni, as a Fellowship has a limit...
Building a better camera trap
A few months ago, I went tree climbing to become a certified tree climber, advancing Arribada’s goal to improve the...
Progress report – January 2019 – Thermal imaging for human-wildlife conflict
Arribada recently returned from field sites in Assam, India where we tested the image quality and detection abilities...
Progress report – December 2018 – Thermal imaging for human-wildlife conflict
ibada just returned from our first thermal camera field trials in Greenland, where we tested the image quality and...
Progress report – September 2018 – Thermal imaging for human-wildlife conflict
Our last blog post left you with preliminary test results of thermopile and microbolometer thermal sensors to be used...
Gone tree climbing
I love daring activities, the more curious the better; night scuba diving, active volcano research, the highest bungee...
Selecting GPS tags to track the critically endangered Hooded Grebe
The Hooded Grebe (Podiceps gallardoi) is a water bird endemic to Patagonia, Argentina. It has spectacular...
Progress report – May 2018 – Thermal imaging for human-wildlife conflict
Re-Cap If you read our previous blog, you know that we are developing a low-cost automated animal detection system to...
Helping solve human-wildlife conflict with infrared technology advances
Conflict between humans and wildlife is increasing as human communities expand and wild habitats are destroyed. As a...
Power from plants, and what it means for conservation
The power of 1 hour of solar energy reaching our planet is equivalent to our current annual global energy consumption....
Driving down the cost of acoustic monitoring with the AudioMoth
It’s $50, the size of a credit card, and can record uncompressed audio at 384,000 samples per second. The AudioMoth,...