Smart Forests Radio
Episodes
Sylvain Vaquer: Biodiversity Monitoring Powered by People and AI
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Smart Forests Radio, we speak with Sylvain Vaquer, founder of Mozaic Earth, a biodiversity and nature-intelligence startup. Sylvain...
Andrés Fuentes Ramírez and Paola Arroyo Vargas: Ecología de fuego y recuperación tras incendios
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
En este episodio de Smart Forests Radio, hablamos con Andrés Fuentes Ramírez, biólogo y doctor en Ecología y Biología Evolutiva, y con Paola Arro...
Murtaza Taj: Building Technology and Trust for Forest Fire Prevention
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Smart Forests Radio, we speak with Murtaza Taj, Associate Professor and Director of the Computer Vision Lab, as well as former Dire...
Mohammad Meer Hamza: Van Gujjars and Mapping for Forest Rights
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Smart Forests Radio, we are in conversation with Mohammad Meer Hamza about the Van Gujjars, an indigenous pastoralist community in ...
Jorge Felez-Bernal: La piro-geografía y la geomática como medios para vincularse con comunidades afectadas por incendios forestales
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
En este episodio de Smart Forests Radio, hablamos con Jorge Felez-Bernal. Jorge es Geógrafo, con postgrado en Ingeniería del Medio Ambiente y Mást...
Claudia Arellano: El futuro de la gestión de riesgo de desastres en Chile
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
En este episodio de Smart Forests Radio, hablamos con Claudia Arellano, geógrafa y especialista en Estudios y Riesgos de Desastres. Actualmente es co...
BurnBot: Mitigating Wildfire Risks through Prescribed Burns
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Smart Forests Radio, we speak with Dr Waleed “Lee” Haddad, cofounder of BurnBot. BurnBot is a semi-automated mobile technology ...
Jorge Saavedra: Monitoreando y combatiendo incendios forestales desde la teledetección
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
En este episodio de Smart Forests Radio, hablamos con Jorge Saavedra. Jorge es Ingeniero Forestal, Diplomado en Geomática y Tecnología Satelital, Ma...
Shefali Lakhina: Innovating FireTech with Frontline Communities
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Smart Forests Radio, we talk with Dr Shefali Juneja Lakhina about socially led innovations in fire technology and policy. Shefali i...
Frank Vorhies: Integrating Conservation and Economic Development
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we speak with Dr Frank Vorhies. Frank is the director of African Wildlife Economy Institute at Stellenbosch Unive...
Arthur Eijs: Verified Conservation Areas and the Nature Commitment Platform
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we invite Arthur Eijs, a policy advisor on Natural Resources at the Ministry for Infrastructure & Water Manag...
Awana Digital: Weaving Community, Technology and Environment
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we speak with Jen Castro, co-director of Awana Digital (formerly Digital Democracy), about Mapeo, an open-source,...
Michiel van Bakel: Visual Artist in Forest Landscapes
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Smart Forests Radio, we venture into the forest on the Peelrandbreuk in Boekel, the Netherlands. Recorded during a forest walk on a...
Increasing the Survivability of Adopted Trees through Datafication
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Smart Forest Radio, we speak with Sandyakala Ning Tyas from the Mountain and Jungle Explorer Association Foundation (Wanadri) in In...
Rob Lewis: Tokenising Forests to Improve Biodiversity
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Smart Forests Radio, we speak with Rob Lewis, an ecologist at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) in Bergen, Nor...
The Bujang Raba Carbon Project
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Smart Forest Radio, we invite Emmy Primadona and Famila Juniarti from the Indonesian Conservation Community Warsi to discuss the im...
Fleur Bokma: Stichting Deltaplan Biodiversiteitsherstel
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Within the Netherlands, there are a lot of widely contrasting ideas about biodiversity. The ‘Stichting Deltaplan Biodiversiteitsherstel’ is a foun...
Global Forest Watch Indonesia: Plurality in Defining Forests
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Smart Forest Radio episode, we invite Benita Nathania, Mirzha Hanifah (Hani), and Hidayah (Iday) Hamzah from the World Resources Institute (WR...
Pranav Menon: Bottom-up Forest Mapping with the Van Gujjars in India
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we speak with Pranav Menon, a PhD researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, ...
Ignacio Barbeito: Making Forests Resilient with Technology
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we are in conversation with Ignacio Barbeito, an Assistant Professor of Silviculture in the Department of Forest ...
Rainforest Alert: Indigenous Monitoring in the Peruvian Amazon
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we speak with Tom Bewick, former Peru director at Rainforest Foundation US and currently an international project...
Sass Klaassen and Driessen: Sensing Movements of Trees and Snails
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we are in conversation with tree-ring researcher Ute Sass Klaassen at Van Hall Larenstein and Wageningen Univers...
Douglas Clark: Non-invasive Monitoring Technologies in the Canadian Arctic
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we speak to Dr Douglas Clark, an associate professor at the School of Environment and Sustainability at the Uni...
Atlas Natural Capital: Counting the Benefits of Green Infrastructures
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we interview Miranda Mesman and Ton de Nijs from the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environme...
David Coomes: Seeing the Forest through the Carbon
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we speak to Professor David Coomes, Director of the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCC...
IPAM SOMAI: Indigenous-led Approaches to Forest Protection
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we interview Martha Fellows, a researcher from the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) in Brazil. In...
Global Forest Watch: Monitoring to Reduce Deforestation
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we invite Kaitlyn Thayer and Gabrielle Nusbaum from the World Resources Institute (WRI) to speak about Global Fo...
Pujita Guha for the Forest Curriculum: Building Knowledges Beyond Data
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Pujita Guha for the Forest Curriculum, a "collectively run itinerant anarchist platform for artistic, curatorial and poli...
Patrick Ribeiro: Digital Tools for Transparency in Forest Restoration
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this radio episode, we speak to Patrick Ribeiro, founder of OpenForests, a technology company that develops digital tools such as the explorer.land...
Brian House: Sensing Climate Change through Infrasound
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Brian House, a sound artist and Assistant Professor of Art at Amherst College. Brian discusses Macrophones, an ongoing pr...
Joycelyn Longdon: Forest Sound, Machine Learning, and Data Justice in Ghana
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Joycelyn Longdon, a PhD researcher on the AI for the study of Environmental Risk programme at the University of Cambridge...
Border Agency: Fire Forests and Artistic Research in Chile
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do fire, forests, and landscape politics intersect? In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we speak with Border Agency, a research and art collectiv...
Paul Roe: Continuous Acoustic Monitoring in Australia
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Paul Roe, Professor of Computer Science at Queensland University of Technology. Along with academics from a range of Aust...
Hana Raza: Camera Traps and Persian Leopards in Iraqi Kurdistan
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this radio episode, we speak to Hana Raza, a wildlife conservationist from Iraqi Kurdistan and founder of the newly-formed NGO Leopards Beyond Bord...
Mitch Aide: Acoustic Monitoring and Remote Sensing in Tropical Ecology
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this radio episode, we speak to T. Mitchell Aide, a tropical ecologist and former Professor of Biology at University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras. I...
ARISE Project: Digital Biodiversity Infrastructure in the Netherlands
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to five people who have contributed to the ARISE project, a digital infrastructure that aims to identify and monitor all spe...
Pratyush Mallick: DIY Devices for Forest Monitoring in India
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Pratyush Mallick, developer of Forest Guardian, a DIY, open source device used to detect illegal logging in forest spac...
Andrea Leiter: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Self-Governing Nature
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this radio episode, we speak to Dr Andrea Leiter, Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Center for International Law and Director of Research at th...
Sarab Sethi: Soundscape Monitoring in Malaysian Borneo
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this radio episode, we speak to Dr Sarab Sethi, Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative at the Univers...
Shashank Srinivasan: Conservation Technologies in India
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Shashank Srinivasan, founder of Technology for Wildlife Foundation based in Goa, India. Shashank discusses tools and te...
Alex Rogers: Acoustic Devices for Biodiversity Monitoring
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Alex Rogers, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. We discuss how Alex's research team developed t...
Sophie Nitoslawski: Smart Urban Forestry in Canada
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this radio episode, we speak to Sophie Nitoslawski, PhD candidate in urban forestry at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Sophie talks abo...
Lindsey Rustad: Real-Time Monitoring in the Northeastern US
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this radio episode, we speak to Dr Lindsey Rustad, Director of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Northeast Climate Hub and Team ...
Ed Cooper: Nature-Based Solutions in West Berkshire, UK
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Ed Cooper, founder of BioCap. Ed discusses developing a spatial plan and regional network to support nature-based solut...
Carlos Souza: Remote Sensing in the Amazon
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Dr Carlos Souza, a researcher at Imazon, the Amazon Institute of People and the Environment. Carlos discusses developin...
Nadina Galle: Internet of Nature
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Dr Nadina Galle, ecological engineer and founder of the Internet of Nature concept and podcast. Nadina describes ways tha...
Marcello and Eduardo Guimarães: Reforestation Machines in Brazil
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this radio episode, we talk to Marcello and Eduardo Guimarães, founders of tree planting companies Mahogany Roraima and iPlantForest and designe...
Larissa Souza: Human-Wildlife Coexistence in Gorongosa, Mozambique
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Larissa Souza, a member of the communications team at Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. We discuss how monitoring ...
Thomas Crowther: Global Tree Restoration Potential
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this radio episode, we speak to Professor Thomas Crowther, an ecologist who leads the Crowther Lab at ETH Zürich and initiated the Restor platfo...
Claudia Araújo: Community Seed Networks in Brazil
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this radio episode, we speak to Claudia Araújo, a forest engineer who co-manages the Xingu Seed Network (Rede de Sementes do Xingu), a seed distr...
Daniela Hedwig: The Elephant Listening Project in Central Africa
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We speak to Dr Daniela Hedwig, Director of the Elephant Listening Project in the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell La...
Letícia Leite: Indigenous Podcasts in Brazil
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We speak to Letícia Leite, journalist and founder of Vem de Áudio, which supports the production of community-led podcasts by and for Indigenous and...
Andrea Botero: Open Forests in Hyytiälä, Finland
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Smart Forests researchers speak to Dr Andrea Botero, Associate Professor in the Department of Design at Aalto University in Finland. ...
Jaime Paneque-Gálvez: Community Forest Monitoring with Drones in Latin America
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We speak to Dr Jaime Paneque-Gálvez, Assistant Professor in the Center of Research in Environmental Geography at the National Autonomous University o...