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On September 15-16, 2009, the MIT Media Laboratory will host a first-of-its-kind workshop to explore how the latest digital technologies facilitate understanding and preservation of natural environments locally and globally. This National Science Foundation sponsored workshop will bring together technology researchers, conservationists, and industry representatives to identify innovative ways to leverage mobile technologies to learn and interact with natural environments. For example, networks of mobile phones fitted with customized microphones, cameras, and sensors can sample animal or plant sounds, sights, and smells to be disseminate through Internet. The resulting real-time data from oceans, forests, deserts, or polar environments can then promote environmental conservation, disease control, and enriched relationships between humans and co-habitating species.
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Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation