{"id":14515,"date":"2023-12-21T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T16:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=14515"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:42","slug":"exciting-research-by-dr-bennetts-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2023\/exciting-research-by-dr-bennetts-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Research by Dr. Bennett\u2019s Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Exciting Research by Dr. Bennett\u2019s Lab\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>AI-based tools designed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bennett-lab\/\">Bennett Lab<\/a> in partnership with the Nature Conservancy of Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada have contributed significantly to biodiversity conservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their ensuing collaboration \u2014&nbsp;an approximately $2-million project funded by the NCC,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environment and Climate Change Canada<\/a>&nbsp;and an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/innovate-innover\/alliance-alliance\/index_eng.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NSERC Alliance grant<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;has spawned a new digital tool,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ncc.carleton.ca\/login\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sites<\/a>, that uses artificial intelligence software and prioritization algorithms to take some of the guesswork out of the complex conservation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe challenges we face are so big and daunting, we need to be as efficient as possible when we try to protect natural spaces and biodiversity,\u201d says Carleton environmental scientist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/joseph-bennett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Bennett<\/a>, the lab\u2019s principal investigator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ieis\/2023\/exciting-research-by-dr-bennetts-lab\/\">Read more!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI-based tools designed by the Bennett Lab in partnership with the Nature Conservancy of Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada have contributed significantly to biodiversity conservation. Their ensuing collaboration \u2014&nbsp;an approximately $2-million project funded by the NCC,&nbsp;Environment and Climate Change Canada&nbsp;and an&nbsp;NSERC Alliance grant&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;has spawned a new digital tool,&nbsp;Sites, that uses artificial intelligence software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14520,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515\/revisions\/14520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}