Prateek Mathur | How Can Technology Save Great Apes?(1st Runners-up)

Prateek Mathur is a PhD student in Wireless Communication at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is studying on an Erasmus Mundus scholarship funded by the European Commission, and his research focus is on node mobility for studying deployment, clustering and data aggregation aspects of wireless sensor networks. Prateek received his MSc degree from the University of Bradford, U.K. (2009) and Bachelor of Engineering from University of Pune, India (2008). His hobbies include chess and photography, and he is interested in understanding climate change and environmental threats faced by the world today.

 

Ticiano Costa Jordão | Mobile Technology for the Protection of Great Apes(3rd Runners-up)

Ticiano Costa Jordão is a PhD candidate in Environmental Engineering and a lecturer in Economics and Management at the University of Pardubice in the Czech Republic. He is the founder of Sustainability Crusade Observatory (CRUSUS), an international sustainability network oriented to education, research and business consulting on environmental sciences and sustainability management, accounting and reporting, and serves as vice-president of the Czech-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. Over the past six years, he has delivered seminars and courses abroad in Europe and South America related to Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility; Corporate Sustainability Management; Accounting and Reporting; Environmental Economics and Management; Climate Change and Tradable Emissions; and Renewable Energy Policies and Management.

Steve Gulick | Pre-emptive Anti-Poaching Technology: Catching the Poacher Before They Kill

(4th Runners-up)

Steve Gulick is an electrical engineer with a strong interest in conservation science. He is the director of Wildland Security, which promotes electronic surveillance to combat poaching and illegal trade, and created TrailGuard, and anti-poaching technology used in key great ape habitats. Steve worked in elephant conservation research with Cynthia Moss and Joyce Poole beginning in 1992 in Kenya, and later employed camera traps to record data with chimpanzees in Congo. He also worked closely with a gorilla reintroduction project in Congo during the civil war. He believes that controlling the established trails through national parks and protected areas in Africa is key to combatting poaching.

Angela Saka | Saving Chimpanzees One App at a Time

(2nd Runners-up)

Angela Saka is the public relations and marketing coordinator for the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, the 90,000-acre wildlife preserve near Mount Kenya that includes the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary. Growing up in Kenya, Angela visited many of the country’s national parks and protected areas, and works to confront conservation and biodiversity issues in the region. She writes the Sweetwaters “Chimpanzee Chat” for Ol Pejeta, and has created much the Sweetwaters promotional material.