Benjamin Colbert

As we close 2025, we wanted to share a few of the papers and research findings from the past year. Everything from bee's to whales to birds! Using bird call to improve surveys Authors with the German Department of Forest Nature Conservation used 25,000 hours of recordings to identif y  within the day and seasonal variation in bird presence. The authors highlight the benefit of continuous recordings as a way to capture that variation in a way that is difficult for human observers.   Using...

I mentioned the motivation for creating Opsanus Fund in another post . As we begin fundraising to support our goal to provide our first grants this coming spring, we wanted to share the process for creating a conservation non-profit. Here’s an inside look at the process of creating Opsanus Fund. February (t minus 9 months)– The first conversations The idea for Opsanus Fund had been growing for a long time, but the first real step happened in February. When you develop a non-profit...

A description of our motivations in creating Opsanus Fund