{"id":459,"date":"2024-08-22T15:25:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T15:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/fsangermano\/?p=459"},"modified":"2024-08-22T15:25:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T15:25:32","slug":"clark-geographer-applies-ecoacoustic-research-to-assessment-of-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/fsangermano\/2024\/08\/22\/clark-geographer-applies-ecoacoustic-research-to-assessment-of-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark geographer applies ecoacoustic research to assessment of the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/florencia-sangermano\/\">Florencia Sangermano<\/a>, associate professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/\">geography<\/a>, is part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/swissnex.org\/brazil\/news\/eth-biodivx-surveying-biodiversity-for-amazon-rainforest-conservation\/\">global research team<\/a> hoping to win a five-year, $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest competition by remotely collecting biodiversity data from deep within the Amazon, identifying the most species, and providing the most impactful real-time environmental insights \u2014 all within three days beginning Thursday, July 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point of the competition is to monitor biodiversity by identifying species in 100 hectares of forest in Brazil. The catch is that you cannot enter the forest,\u201d says Sangermano, pictured above, &nbsp;a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/biodivx.org\/\">ETH BiodivX<\/a> team sponsored by ETH Zurich (<em>Eidgen\u00f6ssische Technische Hochschule Z\u00fcrich<\/em>) in Switzerland. The team includes 58 experts in cultural, artistic, scientific, and social science fields from across the world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55706\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55706\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55706\" src=\"https:\/\/s28151.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Sangermano-with-David-Dao.jpg\" alt=\"Florencia Sangermano with team leader David Dao\" width=\"380\" height=\"265\" data-loaded=\"true\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florencia Sangermano with ETH BiodivX team leader David Dao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Starting July 11, Sangermano and her teammates will have 24 hours to collect environmental DNA (eDNA), images, and sounds via autonomous drones and rovers in an unpublicized area in Amazonas, Brazil, which, at more than 600,000 square miles, is the ninth-largest country subdivision in the world. In the next 48 hours, through July 13, they will analyze the data using techniques that combine a live dashboard, advanced AI algorithms, and insight from indigenous citizen scientists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 24-hour data collection will take place in a remote area in the Amazon with no facilities or internet connection,\u201d Sangermano explains. \u201cAfter the data are collected, we will bring them back to the base camp for processing\u2014 and hope that we have enough power to run all the equipment, which includes a backpack eDNA lab and many computers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"h2__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2024\/07\/03\/clark-geographer-applies-ecoacoustic-research-to-assessment-of-the-amazon\/\">Clark geographer applies ecoacoustic research to assessment of the Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florencia Sangermano, associate professor of geography, is part of a global research team hoping to win a five-year, $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest competition by remotely collecting biodiversity data from deep within the Amazon, identifying the most species, and providing the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/fsangermano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/fsangermano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/fsangermano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/fsangermano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/fsangermano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/fsangermano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/fsangermano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/fsangermano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/fsangermano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}