In 2024, we expanded our partnership with US Fish and Wildlife to work with the Migratory Birds Branch on implementing an AI-assisted aerial survey framework for whooping crane and waterfowl monitoring on the Texas Gulf Coast. While we develop population estimates from the aerial imaging surveys, I am also investigating...

How can we implement an AI-assisted survey framework across the National Wildlife Refuge System?

• Understanding impacts of image quality on taxonomic resolution: what can we feasibly identify?
• Assessing required sampling effort to inform platform and sensor selection