Hi all, Im a soon-to-graduate masters student looking for job advice and leads. I have experience with unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) and GIS for wildlife monitoring and am looking to get back to a drone ecology project. Ive used them for animal sign and vegetation community surveys, and am interested in low-cost non-invasive wildlife monitoring, vegetation and land use/land cover imagery and mapping, restoration monitoring, and things of that nature. Telemetry is a possibility but one I have not explored yet.
So far my lower detection limits are bunny-sized for animal identification and shrub-sized for plant identification. Drone based aerial imagery is still pretty traditional just cheaper. Im looking for non-commercial, i.e. experimental/research projects in the United States. My background is in veterinary science and my masters is in Ecosystem Science and Conservation. I come with equipment. Thank you in advance! (Questions are welcome too.) Best regards, Dipika Kadaba
