Con X Tech Prize, Round 2: Invasive Species & Blue Sky

Submissions

Blockchain Ecosystem Payments Programs that pay people to maintain ecosystem services are often inefficient and corrupted. We improve that by - for the first time - linking blockchain smart contracts to remote sensing algorithms! 6 2 2 Members Open to new members

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

GARBAGE STAR REVISITED Large-scale robust systems for collecting plastic debris from Asian rivers that is able to operate effectively under flood conditions 5 0 4 Members Open to new members

Marine robots for IAS control Using autonomous floating robots to catch sneaky yet dangerous invasive seaweed in the oceans 2 0 7 Members Open to new members

Elephant Biologger Project An elephant asks, "Are you my Mother?" 3 0 2 Members Not accepting new members

Panatrap: 360 Camera Traps Capturing whole areas of nature in Virtual Reality when neat animals pass by 3 0 3 Members Open to new members

Land Footprint via Quickbooks Looking at a company's purchases and estimating how much land around the world they are using! 1 0 1 Members Open to new members

Pig-finding Thermal Drones Saving giant tortoises one pig at a time: Thermal drones find hot hogs in Galapagos and protect tortoise nests 2 0 2 Members Open to new members

Fishial.ai Fishial.ai is building the largest crowd sourced fish image collection to teach machines how to identify fish species using ai. 6 0 8 Members Open to new members

SenseCam - made 4 conservation A commercial camera trap that's built specifically for conservationist, not just to find the biggest antlers. 6 0 6 Members Seeking new members

LionX If you can’t beat ‘em, eat ‘em! Organizing the lionfish supply chain by connecting recreational divers and local processors. 5 0 3 Members Seeking new members

Oceans Eye Collecting near shore ocean data using the recreational scuba diving community. 6 0 2 Members Open to new members

Seacology Deter, Detect+Detain Our buoys tell fishers they are being watched, then catch them if they fish illegally in MPA or EEZ. 3 0 3 Members Open to new members

Stopping IWT in Colombia Using an app to inform, train and report IWT (Illegal Wildlife Traffic) in Colombia through law enforcement and citizen science. 2 0 2 Members Open to new members

Human Wildlife Conflict Guard Scaring wildlife away from rural communities using a variety of species specific stimuli to stop crop raiding, killing of livestock and human interaction using a low cost, automated, android system 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

Wild Insect Traffic Sensors Insects are like super small, but they are kinda keeping us all alive. It would be nice to be able sense their movements in thick forests without killing em all first. We are gonna hack mice to do it! 4 0 1 Members Open to new members

SeaNest A.I. Predator-cam Automating imagery detection at seabird nesting colonies to protect burrowing species from introduced predators 6 0 4 Members Seeking new members

Lamp...Saving Frog Lives Lighting up fungal frog killer DNA to rapidly detect and eliminate fungal spread, thereby saving frog lives! 6 1 3 Members Seeking new members

A Gift from the Deep Making the ocean surface bloom with new life using deep water, which reduces storms by cooling it and reduces the acidification by converting CO2 into plants 6 0 4 Members Seeking new members

0plastic- re-use is Cool 0plastic- re-use is Cool Making it cool and profitable to stop using single-use plastic containers 1 0 1 Members Seeking new members

A Robo-Weeder for the Marsh It's like a roomba for the removal of invasive weeds from estuaries and marshes. 3 0 5 Members Seeking new members

Fishery Platform for Fishers Marine GPS Navigation System with regulation such as Marine Protected Areas, No-Take Zones . Provides transparency and traceability for Seafood. 3 0 1 Members Seeking new members

Containerized car wash containerized car wash mechanism that has no water wastage, semi automatic and uses solar power to run the system. 4 0 1 Members Open to new members

Complex CMUPAB Complex for monitoring the use and protection of aquatic bioresources (CMUPAB) 1 0 1 Members Seeking new members

Asian carp pesticide A digestive (selective), FDA additive (safe) and low cost fish pesticide to control the Asian carp, the fish that jump out the water and slap you on the face. 0 1 1 Members Seeking new members

Biomimetic Wave Energy Capture Capturing energy and plastic, inspired by plankton 0 0 2 Members Seeking new members

ampHibia Detecting chytridiomycosis using pH sensitive swabs 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

Bee there tomorrow The extinction of bees is a major problem for the planet. BeeThereTomorrow seeks a new approach in bee monitoring from actual open source project (more autonomous, costless and new sensors) 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

Using air pump- pressure test Using air pump to detect the existence of hole in the xylem that will be the means for the ROD fungus to get in the Ohi'a tree. 1 0 1 Members Open to new members

Data - Easy, Accurate, Mobile Easy, Accurate, Mobile data collection for invasive species control on and offline 2 0 1 Members Open to new members

EcoYouth EcoYouth Youth empowerment network for live biodiversity charting 3 0 1 Members Seeking new members

Tourism Destination EcoMeter Tourism Destination EcoMeter This digital widget will spill the beans about impacts of tourism on people and nature. Want to unmask the heroes, sidekicks, and villains of sustainable destinations? We’re making an app for that. 2 0 2 Members Open to new members

River Plastic Counter Counting floating debris that flows underneath bridges with a automated image detection system 8 0 1 Members Seeking new members

cloud dna cloud dna Scaning DNA of fished animals and compare them with a data base to know if they are natural or produced. 3 0 1 Members Open to new members

Automated Nest Monitoring Automating nest monitoring observations and reporting over long range wireless network. 1 0 1 Members Seeking new members

Aioli Board Raspberry Pi HAT for Automated Insights and Onboard Landscape Interoperability - "Special sauce for spatial awareness" 1 0 1 Members Seeking new members

Chainsaw Detection Chainsaw Detection Listening to the noise of chainsaws in the forest and learning which of them belong to people who are wrongfuly removing valuable endangered trees. 1 0 1 Members Seeking new members

ATM Bin- dispose and paid This type of garbage bin is new kind of garbage bin that give a reward of small amount of cash when one insert a plastic waste in it. 1 0 1 Members Open to new members

Island Landfill Sites 2.0 Emptying island landfill sites to prevent drinking water pollution and plastic release 1 0 4 Members Open to new members

New Wildlife Survey Technique This is a game of spot the elephant using computer algorithms to identify elephants in very large images of the earth acquired from space. 3 0 1 Members Open to new members

IoTrees Citizen science used to train algorithms to recognize a tree growth, and allocate adequate amount of carbon credits to specific tree's ewallet. Trees can than buy their water, life or companion plants 3 0 1 Members Open to new members

NZ AutoTraps AT220 Here in NZ possums are an introduced pest we want to eradicate. Easy?? No… Dam rats destroy the traps and eat the bait (rats also a pest). The fix… Kev’s AT220 automatic kill trap will kill both!! 5 0 1 Members Open to new members

Otter, water tester Otter, water tester A water tester who calls home every night to report. 1 0 1 Members Open to new members

Large Scale Coral Cooling Cooling biologically valuable areas of coral reef during bleaching periods using large scale industrial equipment 2 0 4 Members Open to new members

CoralReef Restoration Tracking Sick Corals and bring them to lab for getting cured and bring them back when they are fit again 1 0 1 Members Seeking new members

Peristaltic Toilet FIxture Bridging the gap from Bottom to a Peristaltic Tube so no water is needed to relocate bathroom waste. 3 0 1 Members Open to new members

Wildlife tracker balloons Use an aerial platform autonomous in energy equipped with LoRAWAN base station to monitor small animals in wild environments. 3 0 4 Members Seeking new members

eradicate LFA using drone Eradicate the invasive little fire ant in tropical forest using drone 2 0 1 Members Open to new members

Moths listener to save plants As each butterfly breed has its own small characteristics, they probably all produce a specific sound in their behaviour. What if we listened to nature to prevent the arrival of invasive species? 3 1 1 Members Seeking new members

BeeThereTomorrow - Varroa Mite Beekeepers are always looking for ecological solutions for hives. Unfortunately Varroa mites are complex parasites to eradicate. Would it be possible to build an easy to set up and costless solution? 2 1 1 Members Open to new members

OpenOceanCam A long-term underwater ocean camera that auto-classifies animals at genus level using on-board AI. Over 200 shooting modes and 4 weeks of battery/memory! 15 0 5 Members Seeking new members

OCEAN ORCHARDS - UPDATE Massive scale fishery restoration with Blue Carbon sequestration 2 0 4 Members Open to new members

Caribbeans Sargassum problem Solving the Caribbean Sargassum problem by preventing them from piling up and decaying. 1 0 1 Members Open to new members

Aerial detection of ROD Finding fungal infections in the forest through aerial analytics 1 0 4 Members Not accepting new members

Thermoelectric green energy Protecting Congo's rainforests by reducing dependence on charcoal for energy 3 0 1 Members Open to new members

JelliGuard Protecting beaches and aquatic environments from jellyfish invasion using AI-driven underwater vision sensors. 6 1 1 Members Seeking new members

Cloud-based Bathymetry Cloudy with a great chance of bathymetry: Leveraging the advances in cloud computing, open satellite images and AI with low-cost field data for estimating bathymetry globally 3 0 3 Members Open to new members

Self-Sustaining Ocean Cleanup Plastics have lots of energy stored in their long molecules. We can convert these plastics to both thermal and stored electrical energy through high-efficiency gasification. 2 0 1 Members Seeking new members

Smart Green washer This project is about building a washing machine that sort microfiber from the wastewater generated from washing clothes. 2 0 1 Members Open to new members

Hacking the fish-chain Hacking the fish-chain your fish no longer has a fishy story 1 0 5 Members Open to new members

Pocket garbage bin A pocket garbage bin that is used to store small personal wastes like chewing gum, cigarette butt and so on that can be carried at all time. 1 0 1 Members Open to new members

Soil test experiment Testing of means of transmission of soil for the ROD fungus. 1 0 1 Members Open to new members

Sea Turtle LED Saving sea turtles by using light to prevent entanglement in fishing nets 4 0 3 Members Open to new members

Saving the Oh Saving the Ohi'a tree by pre detection of the fungus using moisture meter to measure the water content of the Ohi'a tree. 1 0 1 Members Open to new members

Saving the Ohiʻa tree Saving the ʻŌhiʻa tree by pre detection and understanding of the spread of the fungus. 0 4 1 Members Open to new members

Swarm Sensor Using mosquitos to help us understand the makeup of an ecosystem. 12 3 4 Members Seeking new members

Food Chain Plus Food Chain Plus Level up from the food chain paradigm. 0 0 1 Members Seeking new members

Polycultures for the Planet Tissue culture carrots will save the world 0 0 3 Members Open to new members

Camera Trap Image Classifier Camera Trap Image Classifier Using smart computer software to quickly identify remote camera trap images containing animals so that people can watch more cat videos instead of mindlessly looking through blank camera trap images 0 0 1 Members Not accepting new members

Tracing Plant fever Tracing plant fever or body temperature variation to get early warning mechanism for the ROD fungus. 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

Range Expansion Map An interactive tool for aggregating, illustrating, and prediciting the spread of invasive species. 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

Using Compression test This project is about using a compression test device to measure and detect the difference in the compassion of infected Ohi'a tree and healthy ones. 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

CRBBP Process Nutrient Capture Using our recently-patented CRBBP Process, we plant and then multi-task fast growing bio-crops and their biomass to both extract nutrients from Chesapeake Bay watershed farms and make bio-products,. 0 0 1 Members Seeking new members

Tracing cavitation sound Using ultrasound microphones, vibrometers and AI assisted software to trace the cavitation sound on xylem to detect water stressed Ohia tree to detect the ROD fungus. 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

Mangrove Mapper Mangrove Mapper Using flying robots to map mangrove forests and calculate their carbon stock 0 0 2 Members Open to new members

Otter Perspectives Communicating otter perspectives using virtual reality 0 0 3 Members Open to new members

Encouraging Non Invasive Pets Encouraging Non Invasive Pets Pet Wisdom : Choose Wisely- Don't let your Pets become PeSts :) 0 0 1 Members Seeking new members

RiverUP a data collection and youth citizen science education app 0 0 2 Members Seeking new members

Oyster Box A shoe box of oyster spat for every school child 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

Ground-penetrating radar Ground-penetrating radar Ground-penetrating radar to detect the low water content Ohi'a trees to detect the ROD fungus. 0 0 1 Members Open to new members

Diameter difference Difference of the diameter to detect the ROD fungus to save the Ohi'a tree. 0 0 1 Members Open to new members