Lunch Hour Lecture: Internet of Wild Things-using technology to understand and safeguard our planet

Wild nature and natural ecosystems are declining rapidly as humans use more of the earth’s resources and change climate patterns. Thanks to new sensor technologies such as animal movement tags, camera traps, passive acoustic sensors, IoT devices and new ways of analysing these data automatically with artificial intelligence, scientists have access to huge amounts of data about our changing environment and changing wildlife populations. We will review some of the latest technological advances in sensing, analysing, monitoring, and responding to wildlife population declines. We argue that although these technologies will help us to better understand the natural world and to further engage people with their environment, these could be disruptive and we discuss whether we are really ready for the Internet of Wild Things! Speakers: Kate Jones is Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity and Director of the Biodiversity Modelling Research Group at Centre for Biodiversity and Environmental Research (CBER) Duncan Wilson is Professor of Connected Environments at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) Date: 9 May 2019 UCL's popular public Lunch Hour Lecture series has been running at UCL since 1942, and showcases the exceptional research work being undertaken across UCL. Lectures are free and open to all.