Accelerating Biodiversity Surveys with AI

June 21, 2021

Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS) sits in the nexus between the most remote places in the world and burgeoning animal conservation science. It provides the monitoring technology that conservation groups need to keep watch over wild places and protect wildlife. Conservationists…

March 24, 2020

Scientists partnered with tech industry experts to develop the first machine learning application for acoustic monitoring of Alaskan beluga whales. An innovative machine learning application will help scientists collect information essential to protect and recover the endangered Cook Inlet beluga…

March 10, 2020

In the U.S., there are five populations of beluga whales, all in Alaska. Of those five, the Cook Inlet population is the smallest and has declined by about seventy-five percent since 1979. Subsistence hunting contributed to this initial population drop,…

February 19, 2020

When Erin Moreland set out to become a research zoologist, she envisioned days spent sitting on cliffs, drawing seals and other animals to record their lives for efforts to understand their activities and protect their habitats. Instead, Moreland found herself…

December 18, 2019

Breaking the annotation logjam in wildlife surveys. Biodiversity is declining across the globe at a catastrophic rate. Conservation biologists are faced with the daunting — but urgent — task of surveying wildlife populations and making policy recommendations. What species need…

October 17, 2019

Scientists partnering with tech industry experts to create an innovative Artificial Intelligence application for Arctic marine mammal research. This series of events led NOAA Fisheries scientists at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center to team up with tech industry talent to…