Tech to Reconnect | San Diego Zoo Global – Technology as a Gateway to New Realms of Nature

Exploring Nature Like Never Before

Our Community

We work with creative scientists, engineers, designers, artists, and conservationists of all ages. Please join our mailing list and attend an event— we’d love to work with you too!

Our Mission

In accordance with our organizational vision to lead the fight against extinction, we design, prototype, and promote technologies to reach conservation goals.

Our Vision

We envision a world where human technologies connect us with wildlife and habitats by helping us understand, empathize with, and protect natural systems.

Selected Prototypes & Projects

We're starting to build tools to explore and discover nature. What if you could experience plant and animal perspectives?

Becoming a Butterfly
Feel your way south like a monarch using our app paired to a special vest.
Bat Sense
Find your way like a bat.
Giraffe Perspective Simulator
See from a giraffe's point of view.
Smart Birdhouse
Track and quantify bird nesting behavior.
Climate Leaf
Measure light, heat, and humidity from a plant perspective.

Tech to Reconnect: Forests

August 18th, 2017 (6:30-9pm)

Our Tech to Reconnect event series highlights ways our collaborators and colleagues use technology to gain understanding about (and empathy with) the natural world.

Featured speakers will share how they use technology to help protect, inspect, or connect with forests.

Buy Tickets

Check out our Innovator’s Challenge to learn how you can win two free admission tickets!

Xin Liu

Research Assistant, Fluid Interfaces Group, MIT Media Lab

Karla Renschler

Product Marketing Specialist, Global Forest Watch

Topher White

CEO and Founder, Rainforest Connection

Community Partners

Our Team

We are working to invent new tools for building interspecies empathy.

Dr. Gabriel Miller, Director of Research & Development, San Diego Zoo Global
We constantly explore technologies that enable us to understand and empathize with the natural world.

Robert Erhardt, Chief Technology Officer, San Diego Zoo Global
We want to make the zoo of the future today. Using new technologies, we can help people understand the value of nature and help to protect it.

Paula Brock, Chief Financial Officer, San Diego Zoo Global
We must embrace all technologies available (and work to invent more!) to care for and connect with our environment.

Dr. Allison Alberts, Chief Conservation Officer, San Diego Zoo Global
I believe that nature and human technology synergize!

Nika Haleftiras, Conservation Technology Intern, San Diego Zoo Global
Joy Decena, Conservation Technology Community Relations, San Diego Zoo Global