Sue Palminteri

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Sue Palminteri -- Mongabay's wildtech editor, conservation biologist, professional tennis player, and long-time exercise enthusiast -- passed away on November 30th, 2019. She was 54. Sue is greatly missed by her friends, colleagues, and family. Her contributions to conservation were immense.

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SMART and well-Connected: reserve patrol data system adds communications capacity

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Oct 2017

Dogs, dung, and DNA: mapping multi-species corridors to conserve threatened carnivores

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 Oct 2017

USAID Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge awards Acceleration Prizes for rapid tech developments

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Oct 2017

Scientists sequence plant DNA in the field to identify species within hours

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 26 Sep 2017
Coral flourescing, a reaction to stressful conditions

Capturing the wonder and vulnerability of coral reefs in real-time: Q & A with the director of “Chasing Coral”

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 21 Sep 2017

Citizen scientists use mobile apps to help “green” the ocean

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 Sep 2017
Female bear with cubs observe a visitor

Spot the pattern: Whisker-prints and citizen science

Lalini Pedris 15 Sep 2017

Rethinking camera traps for the small, fast, and elusive

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 11 Sep 2017
Whale shark off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

DNA barcoding helps identify endangered species from market specimens of sharks and rays

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 6 Sep 2017

App combines computer vision and crowdsourcing to explore Earth’s biodiversity, one photo at a time

Colleen O'Brien 30 Aug 2017

Re-peeling the effects of degradation: low-tech application of orange crop waste shows potential to restore tropical forests

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Aug 2017
A male indigo bunting pauses in Texas during

Scientists combine crowd-sourced field observations with land-use and climate models to identify steps for migratory bird protection

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Aug 2017

New genetic analyses help scientists rethink the elephant family tree

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Aug 2017

Open-source species location data supports global biodiversity analyses

Colleen O'Brien 31 Jul 2017

Low-tech challenges to high-tech forest monitoring: lessons from Ugandan parks

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Jul 2017

Animated animals: can games engage an audience with a conservation message?

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Jul 2017

Tuna catch monitoring enters the electronic age

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Jul 2017

Camera trapping in the trees

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Jul 2017

Phone app lists ‘Good Fish’ and ‘Bad Fish’ to reduce impacts of cyanide fishing

Danielle Bettermann 30 Jun 2017

Story-telling app and website help communities improve their ‘backyards’

Danielle Bettermann 23 Jun 2017

Creating corridors: researchers use GPS telemetry data to map elephants’ movements

Danielle Bettermann 21 Jun 2017

Soil research aided by citizen scientists, boots and all

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 Jun 2017
An elephant in Botswana far from people and unlikely to encounter and break fences.

Breaking a fence-breaking habit: maintaining the fences that reduce human-elephant conflict

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Jun 2017

Rugged innovation: Meeting the challenges of bringing high tech DNA analysis to the field

Lalini Pedris 25 May 2017

Location, location, location goes high-tech: Facts and FAQs about satellite-based wildlife tracking

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 May 2017

Location, location, location: Facts and FAQs about radio telemetry

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 12 May 2017

Going viral: How advancements in Ebola disease detection in wild apes can help to prevent dangerous outbreaks

Lalini Pedris 4 May 2017

Effective climate change action needs technology and policy

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 1 May 2017
Proboscis monkeys grooming.

An interactive map connects landowners and forest change in one of the world’s most biodiverse places

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Apr 2017
Grevy's zebras in Samburu Reserve, Kenya

Wildbook: a social network for wildlife

Colleen O'Brien 18 Apr 2017

Bordering extinction: Can technology offer ecologically-sound alternatives to the proposed U.S.-Mexico wall?

Lalini Pedris 12 Apr 2017

Soft-yet-tough robots may one day explore the seas

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 7 Apr 2017

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