EarthRanger and African Parks, the Conservation Tech Award accepting applicants, June's featured AI2er and more.

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June 2023

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The Future of Conservation: EarthRanger and African Parks

A photograph of a lowland gorilla with its baby on its back, taken by Michael Viljoen.

Monitoring the critically endangered western lowland gorilla in Odzala National Park is more effective with EarthRanger technology. © Michael Viljoen

In an attempt to improve biodiversity protection in some of Africa’s most remote locations, non-profit conservation organization African Parks has become a committed user of EarthRanger. 

 

“African Parks has established a fantastic example of how conservation programs can get the most out of EarthRanger and related technologies,” says EarthRanger’s director, Jes Lefcourt. “The use of the tool across the organization demonstrates the power of data-driven decision making in managing protected areas, protecting the wildlife that live there, and supporting the people who live in surrounding areas.”

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Words as Gatekeepers

Jargon can be a necessary tool for researchers in specialized fields to communicate—but can also make that research inaccessible to broader audiences. In this ACL 2023 Findings paper, AI2 researchers uncover the impacts of jargon across different fields of study.

Graph of specialties that use the most jargon, with medicine using the most and political science using the least.
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Applications open for the Conservation Tech Award

Applications are open for EarthRanger's 2023 Conservation Tech Award! Learn more about how this award is helping to fund critical technology in the fight to conserve our planet, and access the application below.

A picture of the Arribada Club, which won a Conservation Tech Award last year.
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A photograph of Ashwin Kalyan playing the violin.

Featured AI2er: Ashwin Kalyan

Aristo research scientist Ashwin Kalyan has followed his passions and curiosity his whole life — which has led him National Institute of Technology in Karnataka, to a PhD at Georgia Tech, to blue-level ski slopes around Washington. Get to know Ashwin and his career path on the blog.

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An illustration of the ClarifyDelphi model's approach, generating an initial question and then providing hypothetical responses based on follow-up questions.

ClarifyDelphi

Additional context can either weaken or strengthen a given interpretation. A team of AI2 researchers worked to address this with ClarifyDelphi, a reinforced clarification question generation system that aims to contextualize social and moral situations.

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