new tools for monitoring biodiversity and environments ed baker natural history museum
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- New tools for monitoring biodiversity and environments Ed Baker Natural History Museum
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- How can we do science when this..
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- . becomes this.
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- What can we make machines do for us?
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- What can we measure? http://ubidots.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/the-internet-and-the-nature-of-things/
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- Can we put the environment online? http://ubidots.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/the-internet-and-the-nature-of-things/
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- The Internet of Things http://ubidots.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/the-internet-and-the-nature-of-things/
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- Do we have to become hardware engineers as well now?
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- Id recommend it. Its fun building stuff.
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- Do we have to become hardware engineers as well now? Id recommend it. Its fun building stuff. Potential for collaboration outside of biology
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- Do we have to become hardware engineers as well now? Id recommend it. Its fun building stuff. Potential for collaboration outside of biology Take citizen science somewhere new: citizen engineering
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- CITIZEN ENGINEERING?
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- Once again physics got there first
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- Hackers and makers http://www.flickr.com/photos/fumi/3546898731/
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- Take a microcontroller
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- Plug in ethernet and SD card
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- Add some sensors
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- Write some code
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- Environmental data to Scratchpads
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- In terms of hardware its crude
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- In terms of hardware its crude But the data is good data
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- In terms of hardware its crude But the data is good data Its cheap (pretty much disposable)
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- What about academic collaboration?
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- You can listen for bush crickets
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- Can we automate this?
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- In Situ Acoustic Monitoring of Biodiversity
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- Can we automate this?
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- Dont stop there!
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- Add a GPS! Location, but also time
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- Dont stop there! Add a GPS! Location, but also time Temperature, humidity, light levels
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- We can already do a lot if we collaborate
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- We need to think big in terms of scope, scale and speed
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- You can put a plant on Twitter
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- Why not a whole forest?
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- You can track a domestic cat
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- Why not track hundreds of individuals?