News & Blog
Conservation technology research, news and development blogs from the Arribada team.
Biologging & GPS Tracking
IoT Satellites for Conservation
Updates
GeoSeals trialled in Ethiopia
It was a warm afternoon in late May 2022, in a coffee shop in Portsmouth, when Ruby Hill and I first questioned “how cost-effectively could we track a bar of soap?”. We were questioning which tracking technologies and approaches could best tackle the challenge...
Making Waves: Open Hardware as a Solution to Scaling up Bycatch Mitigation
We discussed why we believe bycatch occurs, how open hardware and science solutions could help to better understand, monitor and mitigate bycatch, and how we could collectively infuse openness into marine conservation policy globally.
New Horizons for rehabilitated sea turtles
The Olive Ridley Project and the Arribada Initiative are co-developing new low-cost telemetry tags to scale up the monitoring of rehabilitated sea turtles.Developing sea turtle telemetry tags to track injured and rehabilitated sea turtles, post-release, can require...
Three years in Antarctica – affordable and durable time-lapse monitoring
How it started The Arribada Initiative strives to make conservation technology open, affordable, and accessible to all who need them. Combining clever design and low-cost off-the-shelf parts, we have delivered plastic waste trackers, animal biologgers, acoustic...
The need for speed in sea turtle telemetry – SnapperGPS vs Assisted GPS
SnapperGPS vs Assisted GPS To acquire GPS signals when tracking sea turtles your GPS receiver must be above the waterline and exposed to the sky. Easier said than done when sea turtles may only spend 2.2 seconds breaking the water's surface when coming up for air....
Open source monitoring systems for pollinators & orchids
(Above) Masdevallia hortensis, found in cloud forests at elevations around 2600 metersThe tropical Andes are a global biodiversity hotspot expected to suffer more pronounced effects of global warming than any other mountain ecosystem worldwide. The likelihood that...
Progress report – February 2020 – Thermal imaging for human-wildlife conflict
Our idea for an alert system combines low-cost thermal sensors, machine learning and wireless transmission to build an affordable system that alerts communities to the presence of elephants, providing a chance to safely act before a human-elephant conflict (HEC)...
New Horizons – Open Access ARGOS Telemetry
Why isn't there an Arduino style platform for biologging and satellite telemetry? It's a question that the Arribada Initiative has been working to address for the past 3 years, and today at the World Marine Mammal Conference in Barcelona, we were delighted to be able...
We’re all in this together. My Shuttleworth Fellowship
I'm a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow. In around 5 months time I'll transition to Alumni, as a Fellowship has a limit of 3 years. On the first day of my Fellowship I wrote a piece about the road ahead. Reading it back this morning, it reminded me of those early days,...
Polar bear detection
Thermopiles vs microbolometers. We review our research to date in Greenland and the challenge of detecting bears at -20C
Stay in touch
Introducing the Arribada Horizon ARTIC R2 Developer’s Kit.
Add ARGOS satellite connectivity to your own device or design, or use it as a ready-to-go stand alone GPS and ARGOS tracker.
We’ve interfaced our Horizon GPS board with our new Argos ARTIC R2 transmitter to get you up and running quickly, compatible with next generation ARGOS-4 satellites and the future Kineis constellation of nanosatellites.
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Arribada USA
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