Congratulations to Ben Weinstein on winning the inaugural Sidnie Manton Award

Today we are pleased to announce that to Ben Weinstein has won the inaugural Sidnie Manton Award for his paper ‘a computer vision for animal ecology’. Ben is a postdoctoral fellow at Oregon State University interested in community ecology, Bayesian modelling and data science. Ben’s paper was selected as a winner from a shortlist of six excellent papers. All the shortlisted papers were excellent, topical … Continue reading Congratulations to Ben Weinstein on winning the inaugural Sidnie Manton Award

It’s a bear! Adopting a ‘computer vision for animal ecology’

How can automated image processing be applied for detecting, counting and identifying animals in natural landscapes? A recent review article published in the Journal of Animal Ecology covers this exact question! Dr Ben Weinstein is a postdoctoral fellow at Oregon State University interested in community ecology, Bayesian modeling and data science. He studies a wide range of taxa including tropical hummingbirds, Antarctic whales, and temperate trees. … Continue reading It’s a bear! Adopting a ‘computer vision for animal ecology’