Cara Appel
@cl_appel
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Wildlife Science PhD candidate 🦉📈 Bioacoustics, owls, camera traps, computer vision. 🐾 Also porcupines. 🍃 Nature nerd, reader. 📚 she/her
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Joined July 2011
RT @sandiegozoo: Meet Dakota - the first North American porcupette (baby porcupine) to be born via c-section. When mom Maizey wasn't labori….
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RT @RolandKays: We are gearing up for the 6th annual Snapshot USA national mammal survey this fall and have some camera kits to loan out.….
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RT @thereal_jayhay: In 2019, we set 10 camera traps from 65-90m in the crown of the world's tallest tropical tree, with no real idea whethe….
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excited to share Seattle birds with folks from CVPR tomorrow! 🦅.
For those joining tomorrow, if you're coming over from the conference center with us we will meet at 7 in front of Arch (7th and Pike) and then take the light rail. Otherwise we will collectively meet at the UW Boathouse at 7:30!. BIRD NERDS ASSEMBLE!!.
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RT @ellycknight: Acoustic individual identification, or "AIID" has the potential to open new frontiers in ecological & evolutionary researc….
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RT @sarameghanbeery: Are you coming to @CVPR? Do you like birds? Do you like walks? @oisinmacaodha @Grant_Van_Horn @juliachae_ @cl_appel a….
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RT @RolandKays: Like working with camera trap pictures and data? join the #SnapshotUSA team this year Aug-Feb @NationalZoo in Front Royal V….
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RT @TouraniMa: 📢Applications are still open for these graduate positions on large mammal monitoring in Montana!.
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RT @sarameghanbeery: Great article in @CaltechMagazine about the @cv4ecology program! "It was really amazing to see how bridging gaps betwe….
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A Caltech-led program works to give ecologists computer-vision tools to analyze large sets of data. By Brian Smith It should not be hard to find the biggest creature in the world. Yet, amid all the...
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I appreciate the nuance in this article. A lot of news coverage is sensationalist and loses sight of the big picture. This is an extinction story. We can, and should, debate whether and how to try to stop it, but coming to terms with the sad reality needs to be the first step.
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It’s easy to advocate for more palatable measures, but nothing short of lethal removal shows promise, and we’re running out of time. I do think there are legit reasons to oppose this effort, but we need to recognize that without it we will almost certainly lose n. spotted owls.
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Killing barred owls is a last-ditch effort to save northern spotted owls, old-growth specialists that are plummeting toward extinction. This is nobody’s first choice but is likely the only way to give them any chance at persistence. 🦉
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A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to kill some 470,000 owls over 30 years to protect other owl species has prompted conservationists and animal welfare advocates to weigh the consequences.
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RT @cole_burton: #NewPaper: Working with a huge team of 220 co-authors representing 102 projects in 21 countries, we analyzed data from 540….
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Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysing camera-trap data of 163 mammal species before and after the onset of COVID-19 lockdowns, the authors show that responses to human activity are dependent...
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