README.md

Awesome ConservationTech

An awesome list of technology and organizations helping to understand and conserve our natural resources.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Table of Contents

• Animal Tracking
• Biodiversity
• Climate
• Energy
• Government GitHub
• Hardware
• Organization GitHub
• Sustainability
• Trails

Animal Tracking

• BirdPy - Test bioacoustic technology for biodiversity monitoring, specifically geared toward birdlife in Kenya.
• Mataki - Open, reconfigurable, flexible, wirelessly-enabled, low-cost tracking technology.
• Ornithokrites - Automatic identification of kiwi calls from audio recordings.
• Pamguard - Detection, classification, and localisation of marine mammals.
• Quail Ridge Automated Animal Tracking - Tracking system used in Quail Ridge Reserve in Napa County, California.

Biodiversity

• Atlas of Living Australia
• BirdVis - Interactive visualization system that supports the analysis of spatio-temporal bird distribution models.
• Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology - World’s largest natural sound archive. Digitized bird calls.
• Map of Life - Explore species' range map and occurrence data.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility - Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Data.
• SMART - Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool for monitoring anti-poaching operations.
• Vermont Reptile & Amphibian Atlas - Collects and disseminates data needed to make informed recommendations regarding Vermont’s reptiles and amphibians.

Climate

• Apache Open Climate Workbench
• Clifro - Easily download and visualise climate data from New Zealand's National Climate Database.
• Code for Resilience - Catalyzing software and hardware innovations that improve communities' ability to address challenges around natural disasters.

Energy

• Energywise - Energy analytics tool to make commercial building more energy efficient.
• Green Button - Secure way to get your energy usage information electronically.
• OpenORE - Site for sharing offshore renewable energy (ORE) code, models, projects, data, media, etc.
• VOLTTRON - Distributed energy control system for intelligently coordinating energy demand.
• WattTime - Syncs electricity usage with clean energy sources.

Government GitHub

United Kingdom

• Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

United States

• Department of the Interior (DOI)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA):
  • NOAA Fisheries National Marine Mammal Lab (NMML)
  • NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)
• National Park Service (NPS)
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Hardware

• AirCasting - Allows collection, display, and sharing of health and environmental data using a smartphone.
• AirPi - A Raspberry Pi weather station and air quality monitor.
• Air Quality Egg - Community-led air quality sensing network.
• Conservation Drones - Share knowledge of building and using low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles for conservation-related applications.
• GreenSTEM Network - Connects students to the environment by monitoring and mining data using low-cost, DIY sensor kits and open source code.
• Open Energy Monitor - Open-source energy monitoring tools.
• YoMo Metering Board - YoMo (You only meter once) metering unit, designed for industry and researchers to create new energy system applications.

Organization GitHub

• Conservation Biology Informatics Group
• Conservation Hackathon - Tackling conservation challenges through technology events.
• Changing Weathers - Networked responses to geophysical, geopolitical and technological shifts across Europe.
• Data Science for Social Good (DSSG)
• Digital Naturalism - Investigates the role that Digital Media can play in Biological Field Work.
• EcoTrust
• iNaturalist - Global online social network of naturalists.
• iPlant Collaborative - Cyberinfrastructure for life sciences research.
• National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) - Research center of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
• Naturalis Biodiversity Center - Leiden, the Netherlands based biodiversity center.
• Nerds for Nature - San Francisco Bay Area group bringing together nature and tech.
• Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center - Wind, wave, & tidal energy research & development.
• Public Lab - A community for DIY environmental investigation.
• Rainforest Connection - Protecting rainforests with real-time data on illegal deforestation.
• Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
• United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) - Executive agency of the UN Environment Programme, based in Cambridge, UK.
• Zooniverse - People-powered research with a number of conservation-focused applications.

Sustainability

• Global Fishing Watch - Technology Illuminating the World's Fishing Fleet.
• Global Forest Watch (GFW) - Online forest monitoring and alert system for better management of forests.
• Global Institute of Sustainability - Arizona State University Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.
• New California Water Atlas - Makes data about California water resources more open and transparent.
• Open Foris - Free open-source solutions for environmental monitoring.

Trails

• New Zealand Great Walks app
• Open Trail Data

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License

To the extent possible under law, Anselm Bradford has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.