Night Watch on Autopilot: Innovations in Automated Nocturnal Insect Monitoring

Organizer(s)

• JE

  Joseph Elias (he/him/his)

  Binghamton University
  Vestal, New York
• LS

  Laurel Symes

  K. Lisa Yang Ctr. for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, New York

Automated monitoring increases the capability for much needed long-term monitoring initiatives. Attendees will learn about the development and deployment of devices, research significance for different insect groups, and the use of machine learning/AI for identification. All those interested are encouraged to attend regardless of familiarity or experience in the subject.

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM - 10:43 AM Pacific

  How to test for insect declines?
  

  Presenting Author: Matt Ayres (he/him/his) – Dartmouth College
• 10:43 AM - 10:56 AM Pacific

  Illuminating patterns of firefly abundance using citizen science data and machine learning models
  

  Presenting Author: Darin J. McNeil, Jr. (he/him/his) – University of Kentucky

  Co-Author: Sarah Goslee – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Melanie Kammerer – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Sarah Lower – Bucknell University

  Co-Author: John Tooker – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Christina Grozinger – Pennsylvania State University
• 10:56 AM - 11:09 AM Pacific

  The rules of nocturnal insect migration vary with latitude and season: a case study in radar monitoring
  

  Presenting Author: Elske Tielens (she/her/hers) – Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape
• 11:09 AM - 11:22 AM Pacific

  Advances in monitoring flying Insects with photonic sensors
  

  Presenting Author: Topu Saha (he/him/his) – New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Adrien Genoud, Postdoctoral Fellow – Institute of Light and Matter, Claude Bernard University

  Co-Author: Benjamin Thomas – New Jersey Institute of Technology
• 11:22 AM - 11:32 AM Pacific

  Break
• 11:32 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific

  The Mothitor: Fostering learning and connection via automated moth monitoring
  

  Presenting Author: Mariana Abarca (she/her/hers) – Smith College

  Co-Author: Pablo Frank-Bolton – Smith College

  Co-Author: Susanah Howe – Smith College

  Co-Author: Nick Howe – Smith College

  Co-Author: Robert P. Guralnick, Ph.D. – Florida Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Allen Hurlbert – University of North Carolina
• 11:45 AM - 11:58 AM Pacific

  Diamondback moths more attracted to light than food in lab experiments
  

  Presenting Author: Md Saiful Islam (he/him/his) – Harvard University
• 11:58 AM - 12:11 PM Pacific

  Antenna: A collaborative platform for automated insect monitoring
  

  Presenting Author: Michael James Bunsen – Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

  Co-Author: Anna Viklund, n/a – Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

  Co-Author: Andre Poremski, n/a – Fieldguide.ai

  Co-Author: Maxim Larrivée, n/a – Montreal Insectarium

  Co-Author: David Rolnick, n/a – Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

  Co-Author: Kent McFarland, n/a – Vermont Center for Ecostudies
• 12:11 PM - 12:24 PM Pacific

  Bugs in the system: Passive acoustic monitoring of tropical rainforest insect communities
  

  Presenting Author: Laurel Symes – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Shyam Madhusudhana – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Sharon Martinson – Dartmouth College

  Co-Author: Eduardo Navarro-Valencia – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

  Co-Author: Hannah TerHofstede – University of Windsor