The Mothbox: An Open Science Tool for Automated Insect Monitoring

Are you curious about your environment and excited about DIY tools to explore it? Join us for this fascinating presentation by Dr. Andy Quitmeyer.

The Mothbox is a low-cost, high-performance insect monitor. Its power-efficient and lightweight design allows field biologists to deploy it anywhere, even in the depths of the jungle. You can build your own for very little money to study the biodiversity at your home or across an entire landscape! All the physical plans, electronics schematics, Pi Scripts, and insect-IDing Artificial Intelligence are provided free and open source, so you can build, share, and improve on the design.

Andy's talk will highlight the need for landscape-scale insect monitoring, explain the open design of our tool, and teach you how to use it.

About the Speaker

Dr. Andy Quitmeyer designs new ways to interact with the natural world. He has worked with large organizations like Cartoon Network, IDEO, and the Smithsonian, taught as a tenure-track professor at the National University of Singapore, and even had his research turned into a (silly) television series called “Hacking the Wild,” distributed by Discovery Networks. Currently he spends most of his time volunteering with smaller organizations and recently founded the field-station makerspace, Digital Naturalism Laboratories (Dinalab) In the rainforest of Gamboa, Panama. Dinalab blends biological fieldwork and technological crafting with a community of local and international scientists, artists, engineers, and animal rehabilitators. Andy also advises researchers as an affiliate professor at the University of Washington.www.mothbox.org