A3EM is a collaboration between engineers at Vanderbilt University and ecologists at Colorado State University, working alongside wildlife agencies and field researchers around the world.
Directed overall project management and provided mentoring for graduate students on the Vanderbilt research team.
Led CSU's ecological field research collaborations and supervised the graduate student applying the audiologger instrumentation.
Conducted research and firmware development while supervising undergraduate students on the Vanderbilt engineering team.
Led prototype deployments on caribou, bighorn sheep, and elephants while completing coursework toward a doctoral proposal in acoustic instrumentation and field ecology.
Contributed the full hardware design and experimentation supporting the sensor board's electrical and mechanical development.
Conducted embedded machine learning research and software development for the project's adaptive filtering and on-device classification pipeline.
Completed an independent study on optimizing environmental sound classification for deployment on resource-constrained microcontrollers.
Enhanced and delivered the high school summer camp curriculum introducing programming through wildlife conservation technology.
Field deployments depend on close collaboration with wildlife agencies, research stations, and technology manufacturers around the world.
Academic partner institution; collaborative ecological research, NSF-funded.
Bighorn sheep pneumonia-detection deployments, Fort Collins facility.
Wild bighorn sheep deployments in Utah and Arizona, under a data-ownership agreement with the project.
Captive caribou deployments studying insect harassment, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Wild savanna elephant deployments and GPS-collar integration, Samburu National Reserve, Kenya.
First-ever forest elephant audiologger deployments, Central African Republic.
New brown bear collaboration alongside an existing GPS-collar program, Sweden.
New white-lipped peccary collaboration for a year-long GPS-collar study, Costa Rica.
Kenyan wildlife-tracking device manufacturer; ongoing technology-transfer dialogue and collar/drop-off integration.
Supplier of the drop-off mechanisms now standardized on for critical elephant deployments.
Partner on the Thailand acoustic-monitoring workshop; formal MOU signed with CSU.
Global conservation-technology network; hosted an invited project tech talk and funded a companion proposal.