Happy New Year! 🎉 Thankful for the progress made and excited for what's ahead!

Happy Holidays! Sending warm wishes for a joyful season and a restful end to the year.

📣We’re hiring! The AI and Biodiversity Change Global Center is looking for a Student Communications Assistant to support digital engagement, communications, and visual content. Work alongside professionals in science & communication while building experience. 👉Learn more & apply: go.osu.edu/abcca

Take time today and watch Sara Beery's TED Talk at: go.ted.com/sarabeery Additionally, a preprint detailing the methodology and the tool built is available at: lnkd.in/eWtSpS9F

A great week at NeurIPS! Shoutout to Mélisande Teng, a CS PhD student at Mila, with her spectacular poster presentation. Incredible work with even bigger things ahead!

The CV4Ecology program is organizing a two-week remote workshop that will teach computer vision and machine learning methods to former US public sector conservation scientists. Follow the QR code for more information and spread the word! #CV4Ecology #AIforConservation #MachineLearning

A new study highlights how AI can fill major gaps in biodiversity knowledge and improve conservation efforts worldwide. Right now, AI is only being used in a few areas of biodiversity research, but its potential is huge! 🌍👩‍🔬 Read about it here: www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...

Jenna Kline has been doing some incredible work in wildlife research, and her paper on an affordable, autonomous drone system for tracking animals was just published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution! Congrats Jenna! @jennakline.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/2041210x...

Catch up on what's new with ABC through our recent newsletter! From AI-powered conservation efforts to fieldwork in Hawaii to major research updates, and more, read all about it: www.canva.com/design/DAGbb...

Introducing OpenForest, a new open-access platform that compiles 86 global forest datasets to enhance AI applications for forest monitoring, from tree species identification to deforestation tracking. Explore the catalog and full article here: www.abcresearchcenter.org/news-events/...

Shoutout to Sara Beery, Justin Kitzes, and David Rolnick, who presented at the AI and Global Change Biology Symposium at Columbia University. Another shoutout to Tanya Berger-Wolf, for leading an awesome plenary session! events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev... abcresearchcenter.org/news-events/...

Exciting news! Mongabay covered INQUIRE, a tool ABC core collaborators developed to analyze wildlife images beyond species identification, assessing health, pollution, and more. #INQUIRE #AIforConservation #WildlifeTech news.mongabay.com/2025/02/ai-c...

Join us on March 7, 2025, at 11 am for an exciting seminar with Dr. Elsa Ordway! Discover how the PANGEA Project uses field data and remote sensing to study climate and land-use impacts on tropical forests. Don’t miss out and register now!

Title: Towards Interpretable Deep Learning On February 10th, we will have Prof. Tsui-Wei (Lily) Weng from UCSD give a talk on Interpretable Deep learning. Anyone can join! Zoom link: osu.zoom.us/j/9527121761... Meeting ID: 952 7121 7619 Passcode: 123456

In Boundary Spanning: A Leadership Perspective, Jiang, Grabmeier, Boghrat, and Simkins explore how enabling leadership connects disciplinary divides and fosters collaboration. Read it here: i2insights.org/2025/02/04/b...

Join us, January 15-29, on our journey to Hawaii! Visit our social media pages throughout this time for updates and information including daily takeovers by students and faculty, significant research findings, live Q&A's, and more! #ABCinHawaii #ImageomicsinHawaii #AIHawaiiResearch