{"id":3900,"date":"2021-03-07T18:15:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T18:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2021-07-28T00:23:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T23:23:16","slug":"colloquium-astro-ecology-using-astrophysics-research-techniques-to-help-tackle-major-challenges-facing-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/2021\/03\/07\/colloquium-astro-ecology-using-astrophysics-research-techniques-to-help-tackle-major-challenges-facing-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium: Astro-Ecology (Wednesday 10th March by Professor Steve Longmore)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Talk Outline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will describe how we are using astrophysics research techniques to help ecologists protect ecosystems, save critically endangered animal species, and stop peat forest fires that are a major contributor to climate change. Building on technological and software innovations in astronomy, our \u201cAstro-Ecology\u201d team have developed a drone plus thermal infrared imaging system and an associated automated detection\/identification pipeline that provides a cost-effective and efficient way to automatically detect animals and peat fires. I will describe the current status of the system and our efforts to enable local communities to run routine monitoring and management of animal populations and peat fires over large and inhospitable areas, and thereby tackle global biodiversity loss and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>You can view a recording of the talk <a href=\"https:\/\/kent.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=563839d9-639c-491b-aa06-ace7011901dd\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1967\/2021\/03\/PastedGraphic-1-300x281.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"562\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1967\/2021\/03\/PastedGraphic-1-300x281.png 300w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1967\/2021\/03\/PastedGraphic-1-1024x960.png 1024w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1967\/2021\/03\/PastedGraphic-1-768x720.png 768w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1967\/2021\/03\/PastedGraphic-1.png 1118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steve did his undergraduate at Durham University, PhD at University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), was an SMA Research Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, then an ESO Fellow in Garching before getting an academic position at LJMU, where he&#8217;s been since 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk Outline I will describe how we are using astrophysics research techniques to help ecologists protect ecosystems, save critically endangered animal species, and stop peat forest fires that are a major contributor to climate change. Building on technological and software innovations in astronomy, our \u201cAstro-Ecology\u201d team have developed a drone plus thermal infrared imaging system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":3903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colloquia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3936,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/3936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}