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Ask HN: How do I help wildlife conservation and ecology with tech?

In my professional career spanning roughly a decade, I have been a developer, product manager and a co-founder at small startups.

While I have not made a truckload of money, I have made enough to afford a decent living. More importantly I have realized that accumulating more barely moves my happiness-meter.

So I'm looking into areas that I have always loved but haven't really contributed to. Wildlife conservation, oceans and general ecology. And TBH I am clueless where to start looking. Do I get an internship at a research lab, work at a zoo, document flora and fauna?

I have recently started course material that is used for master programmes in universities, but that is to build a fudamental understanding of the space. Any advice/feedback/links would be really appreciated.

From the professional career, I have these skills that I think maybe relevant: - Image processing - Natural language processing - Neural networks, ML etc (would rate self 3/5) - Web dev

I also have love for maps and outdoors if that matters.

Thank you in advance.

2 points hbornfree 5 years ago 4 comments

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