Drones and Ecology

Meet Isla Myers-Smith from the University of Edinburgh, who describes herself as a global change ecologist. Her work focuses on tundra ecosystems. 
To measure changes in plants - shrubs in this case - the team collects data on the ground as well as from drones and satellite data. That involves quite a lot of effort and requires technical skills. Skills that Uni courses in ecology (and other fields) typically don't prepare you for. 
Being largely self-taught, Isla made it her mission to help other early career researchers ramp up skills they will need in their future career.
Today, Isla is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and she and her colleagues manage a drone network called HiLDEN. 

Here are a few links:

• https://www.software.ac.uk/about/fellows/isla-myers-smith A SSI blog post about Isla's work
• https://arcticdrones.org the HiLDEN network site
• https://teamshrub.com/lab-blog/ the lab website

Follow Isla and Team Shrubs on Twitter

• https://twitter.com/IslaHMS Isla's Twitter
• https://twitter.com/TeamShrub Team Shrub's Twitter

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