Active Projects

Our team is part of the Amazon Waters Initiative, which aims to co-produce and compile knowledge about fish and aquatic ecosystems with riparian human communities across the Amazon Basin. We ask: Where and when do fish migrate in the Amazon? And, what are the environmental conditions associated with those migrations, especially water quality and water quality?

As part of this effort, we are collaborating with a conservation technology start-up, Conservify, and numerous Amazonian communities on the design and implementation of a low-cost, high-tech monitoring kit that measures water quality, water level, and climatic conditions. Simultaneously, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has adapted their eBird platform to allow for tracking of fishes, through a new application called ICTIO. Overall, these efforts aim to improve scientific understanding of Amazonian freshwater systems, drawing on the local knowledge and observations of thousands of people across the Amazon.