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Podcast: Mongabay Newscast
Episode: Outstanding in the field: researchers head out for a new season
Description: It's the start of field research season in many regions--and some scientists haven't gotten afield since the pandemic started--so we're checking in with a couple researchers to hear what they're planning to work on, out there in the bush. Our first guest is Meredith Palmer, a post-doctoral researcher at Princeton University whose field work this season is testing new conservation technologies like the BoomBox, an open‐source device that attaches to commercially available camera traps and turns them into an automated behavioral response systems. Also on the show is Ummat Somjee, a researcher based out of...