Con X Tech Prize, Round 1: Oceans & Blue Sky

Finalists

Find Green Connecting green-minded people with green-practicing businesses through a 'Green Yelp'. 16 0 15 Members Seeking new members

cargoscreen Building a data-driven digital detection tool to help screen containerized cargo for illegal or unwanted wildlife parts, products or derivatives. Playing the needle in the haystack game. 7 0 2 Members Seeking new members

Mapping Marine Debris Garbage In, Marine Debris Info Out: Doing the dirty work of image analysis using machine learning and citizen science 26 4 12 Members Not accepting new members

Hacking the Coral Microbiome Engineering coral "guts" to help them survive in warmer, acidic oceans 3 0 5 Members Seeking new members

Wild N.O.S.E. Wild N.O.S.E. Sniffing out evidence of wildlife, stopping crime, and saving species 4 0 5 Members Seeking new members

EleSense - IoT to prevent HEC Alerting humans when wild elephants are intruding into villages 4 0 1 Members Open to new members

Right Whale Auto-Detection We use deep neural networks to identify and verify right whale calls so that researchers, grad students, and shipping vessels don't have to. 1 0 8 Members Seeking new members

Marxan Connect Sea creatures move, so our planning should account for that! 2 5 4 Members Open to new members

Ocean Eye We made an app that will make "you get what you pay for" a reality for divers and marine wildlife tourists, whilst benefitting local communities everywhere in the world 2 0 4 Members Open to new members

SnapCat Using the power of computer vision and wireless sensor networks to take cute pictures of cats 5 0 5 Members Open to new members

Seagrass Mapping in the Cloud Monitoring seagrass cover from space using cloud technology 6 0 10 Members Open to new members

Field detection of disease Field detection of disease Onsite detection of chytrid fungus in amphibians 1 0 3 Members Not accepting new members

FreeTag Imagine being able to track your marine friend cheaper and with more capabilities 3 0 3 Members Open to new members

ChimpFace Using image analysis techniques (facial recognition) to combat Internet-facilitated wildlife trafficking. 34 3 4 Members Seeking new members

Algenie A 3D, modular algae farm that serves as the scaffolding for zero input aquaculture farm; provides healthy food and helps improve water quaility and reduce dissolved CO2 0 0 3 Members Not accepting new members

Submissions

LobsterLift A lobster trap that doesn't also trap whales 14 0 5 Members Open to new members

Bye-catch Say good-bye to bycatch by using sonar detection and AI to spy on marine life and develop effective deterrents 1 0 2 Members Seeking new members

Coastal Cleanup Crowdfunding clean beaches with micropayments to low income coastal residents. 1 0 2 Members Open to new members

The timer of our lives Ever wanted to control time? Well now you can, with our all-new prototype open-source timer board. Let's face it, DeLoreans are just to big and bulky. So try our new board and "hack to the future"! 2 0 3 Members Seeking new members

F.L.O.A.T.I.B.O.I. Floating through nearshore marine plastic pollution & picking some up on the way before it gets to deep sea. 1 0 4 Members Open to new members

Audiomnia - Bioacoustics Map Animals are very noisy. Very noisy, indeed! So, we put them all on a map. 1 0 3 Members Seeking new members

Outsmarting Baddies with Maps Outsmarting Baddies with Maps Helping local law enforcement to stay ahead of poaching, logging and more in Cambodia's Eastern Plains Landscape with interactive maps. 1 0 5 Members Open to new members

Thermal Imaging Rock Wallabies Where there's a will, there's a Wiliji 1 0 2 Members Open to new members

Birds around ! On the last few years, deep learning has been exploding and some of the first application is human voice recognition. But we could also use it to recognize animals sound in nature to improve tracking 5 0 1 Members Open to new members

Champagne Coral Coral restoration using fixings that look like champagne bottle top wire cages 3 0 4 Members Open to new members

A Better Expansion Collar Animals grow, and any tech., around their necks, doesn't. At least, it doesn't tend to do it very well. I'd like to change this by exploring some ways to make better expansion collars. 1 0 2 Members Seeking new members

Low Cost Marine Sensors Low Cost Marine Sensors We want to develop low cost marine sensors and database to study ocean acidification, temperature and other indicators, in order to better understand the problem and find more effective solutions 2 0 2 Members Open to new members

Desert Palm Oil Having your peanut butter and eating it: Palm Oil without the habitat destruction 1 0 1 Members Not accepting new members

Plastic Removing Facility Plastic Removing Facility The project consists of a barricade to stop plastic in the River this plastic will be removed using plastic dustbin or nets and this harvested waste will be subjected to crusher for recycling. 1 0 1 Members Open to new members

Sexy Shrimp Sexy Shrimp People not only like to eat shrimp, but also look at the pretty species. We want to stop over-harvest with commercial breeding including development of spawning and larva-culture protocols. 1 0 1 Members Open to new members

Ocean Orchards Creating new large scale fish habitat with lanes for fishing boats, in order to make millions of tonnes of new fish. 10 1 5 Members Open to new members

Eco-Friendly Aquarists Hub Organizing saltwater aquarium hobbyists online to collect data on their tanks, and generate positive eco-conscious change in the aquarium trade 2 0 4 Members Seeking new members

NextGen Camera Trap NextGen Camera Trap Hi-Tech Animal Spying 15 2 18 Members Seeking new members

Synchronize Search, sync, and support the plastic pollution movement. 0 0 2 Members Seeking new members

Eco-Leadership Mobile App A network of Eco-Clubs powered by a mobile app that empowers grassroots environmental education through games, art, and engaging activities. 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

River Hydropower Increasing fish production without additional operational capital. 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

Turtle Nest Sea Turtle Track and Nest Detection using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 0 0 5 Members Not accepting new members

DrainWatch Robots watching the drains and the store shelves for poisonous plastics trying to pollute the ocean 0 0 1 Members Seeking new members

Customizable Tracking Collars Grabbing lemurs out of trees, giving them electronic necklaces, and tracking their time with lemur friends 0 0 2 Members Open to new members

Assessing Harmful Algal Blooms We are AHAB, on the hunt for disruptive algae using satellite imagery. 0 0 1 Members Not accepting new members

Soil Sampler Play real life Pokemon to save the planet. 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

Coral Reef Mapping Drone Intention to develop an ocean drone equipped with a laser quadrat to map coral reefs at high resolution, speed of capture, positioning, low cost and repeatability 0 0 3 Members Open to new members

Digital Life Project Digitally Preserving The Heritage of Life on Earth 0 0 1 Members Seeking new members

Sea-ing Borneo Ganging up the fishermen community by providing them with efficient tools to increase their quality of life while developing tactics to fish the right way. 0 0 1 Members Seeking new members

Desktop Cricket Farm Grow your food on your desk, while at the same time leading a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle. 0 0 2 Members Open to new members

Sustainable WSP design Sustainable WSP design Making wastes into resources 0 0 2 Members Seeking new members

Fish Oil Replacement from CO2 Plants do it. Why can't we? Turn CO2 into something valuable. 24/7. Industrial scale. 80x/10x more efficient/productive than photosynthesis. No fish harmed! Plants are poor at making EPA, DHA, ARA. 0 0 4 Members Not accepting new members

End Rhino Poaching End Rhino Poaching collapsing the market for rhino horn, with imitation rhino horn from slaughter house waist 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

Circular economy 4 ghost gear Making a business out of a problem: Creating a circular economy for abandoned, lost, and discarded fishing gear in Peru 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

Machine Learning Fish ID Guide Fishing, diving? Let's face it - you're basically playing real-life pokemon go - so why not record the wonderful things you see? And help track climate-driven species range shifts at the same time! ;) 0 0 1 Members Seeking new members