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Deep Learning With The Elephants
Counting elephants helps scientists know where and when they’re being killed. Despite elephants’ massive size, they are hard to spot in the rainforest.
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One Scientist’s Valiant Mission to Save Two of Hawaii’s Endangered Seabirds
On the mountainous island of Kauai, elusive shearwaters and petrels burrow deep in the forested terrain. Saving them requires a radical effort, led by a man who is no less extreme.
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AI empowers conservation biology
Faced with mountains of image and audio data, researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to answer pressing ecological questions.
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Live and Learn
Algorithms are bringing new kinds of evidence and predictive powers to the shaping of landscapes.
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Confirmed: Two Endangered Seabirds Have Been Rediscovered on Oahu
Thought to be extinct on the Hawaiian Island for centuries, Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels were found using acoustic monitoring.
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How eavesdropping on elephants is keeping them safe
Conserving endangered wildlife is an expensive, time consuming job, but new technology may make protecting animals, and catching the poachers who threaten them, easier.
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Cryptic Seabirds Can Hide From This Scientist, But Not From Her Spy Network
Acoustic monitoring combined with powerful machine learning is giving researchers new insights into the elusive Ashy Storm-Petrel. It’s just one way that artificial intelligence can tackle pressing conservation challenges.
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Introduced and native vertebrates in pink- footed shearwater (Ardenna creatopus) breeding colonies in Chile.
Carle, R. D., Fleishman, A. B., Valela, T., Angulo, P. M., Rodt, G. De, Hodum, P., Colodro, V., López, V., Gutiérrez-Guzmán, H. (2021). PLOS One, 16(7), 1–24
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Comparing non-breeding distribution and behavior of red-legged kittiwakes from two geographically distant colonies.
Drummond, B. A., Orben, R. A., Christ, A. M., Fleishman, A. B., Renner, H. M., Rojek, N. A., Romano, M. D. (2021). PLOS One, 16(7), 1–17.
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Wintering in the western subarctic Pacific increases mercury contamination of red-legged kittiwakes
Fleishman, A.B., Orben, R.A., Kokubun, N., Will, A., Paredes, R., Ackerman, J.T., Takahashi, A., Kitaysky, A.S. and Shaffer, S.A. (2019). Environmental Science & Technology, 53(22), 13398-13407.
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Temporal and interspecific variation in feather mercury in four penguin species from Macquarie Island, Australia.
Gilmour, M. E., Holmes, N. D., Fleishman, A. B., & Kriwoken, L. K. (2019). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 142(April), 282–289.
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Tropical seabirds sample broadscale patterns of marine contaminants.
Gilmour, M. E., Hudson, S. A. T., Lamborg, C., Fleishman, A. B., Young, H. S., & Shaffer, S. A. (2019). Science of the Total Environment, 691, 631–643.