In the last months, we have had the pleasure of welcoming Agata Kaczówka, Weronika Czop, and Seth T. Wong to our team. They have all joined us through the WildINTEL project, where some of us work to advance the monitoring of large mammals such as the brown bear, combining camera trapping, citizen science and Artificial intelligence.
Agata is a Master’s student in Environmental Protection and Management at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She completed her Bachelor’s thesis on animal occupancy and activity using camera trap recordings. She participated in camera trap surveys, setting up and calibrating equipment for AI-assisted species identification, as well as management of ecological data.
Weronika is a Master’s student in Bioinformatics at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her academic focus is on applying data visualisation, genetics, and evolutionary science to the conservation of marine mammals and terrestrial species. In 2025, she conducted fieldwork in Greece, working on a project assessing the impact of anthropogenic noise pollution on marine mammals.
With a PhD in ecology, Seth has extensive experience conducting camera-trap surveys in Malaysian Borneo, focusing on how terrestrial vertebrate occurrence is influenced by anthropogenic disturbances in forest production landscapes. He joins the team to contribute to the estimation of key species population metrics, including occupancy, abundance, and density – one of the main goals of the WildINTEL project.
We feel grateful to expand our team with them and look forward to a fruitful collaboration!