Developing the Mothbox automated light trap

Blog post provided by Hubert A. Szczygieł Origins Back in 2022, I was in Panama working on landscape-scale biodiversity monitoring. The system I was testing included a lot of standard approaches – for example trail cameras for mammals, point counts and passive acoustic monitoring for birds, and Gentry transects for trees. However, I realized that none of the standard insect monitoring methodologies work for large-scale … Continue reading Developing the Mothbox automated light trap

Practical tools to advance Image-Based bio-logging in marine ecosystems

Post provided by Marianna Chimienti My name is Dr Marianna Chimienti, and I am a lecturer in Marine Top Predator Ecology at the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University (UK). I’m fascinated by animal movements. My main research focuses on understanding how, where, when, and why animals move, using bio-logging technology (devices attached to animals that can record location, depth, acceleration, orientation, environmental conditions, … Continue reading Practical tools to advance Image-Based bio-logging in marine ecosystems