1. New tools for monitoring biodiversity and environments Ed Baker Natural History Museum

2. How can we do science when this..

3. …. becomes this.

4. What can we make machines do for us?

5. What can we measure? http://ubidots.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/the-internet-and-the-nature-of-things/

6. Can we put the environment online? http://ubidots.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/the-internet-and-the-nature-of-things/

7. The Internet of Things http://ubidots.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/the-internet-and-the-nature-of-things/

8. Do we have to become hardware engineers as well now?

9. I’d recommend it. It’s fun building stuff.

10. Do we have to become hardware engineers as well now? I’d recommend it. It’s fun building stuff. Potential for collaboration outside of biology

11. Do we have to become hardware engineers as well now? I’d recommend it. It’s fun building stuff. Potential for collaboration outside of biology Take citizen science somewhere new: citizen engineering

12. CITIZEN ENGINEERING?

13. Once again – physics got there first

14. Hackers and makers http://www.flickr.com/photos/fumi/3546898731/

15. Take a microcontroller

16. Plug in ethernet and SD card

17. Add some sensors

18. Write some code

19. Environmental data to Scratchpads

20. In terms of hardware – it’s crude

21. In terms of hardware – it’s crude But the data is good data

22. In terms of hardware – it’s crude But the data is good data It’s cheap (pretty much disposable)

23. What about academic collaboration?

25. You can listen for bush crickets

26. Can we automate this?

27. In Situ Acoustic Monitoring of Biodiversity

28. Can we automate this?

32. Don’t stop there!

33. Add a GPS! Location, but also time

34. Don’t stop there! Add a GPS! Location, but also time Temperature, humidity, light levels

35. We can already do a lot if we collaborate

36. We need to think big in terms of scope, scale and speed

37. You can put a plant on Twitter

38. Why not a whole forest?

39. You can track a domestic cat

41. Why not track hundreds of individuals?