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EthoPulsePortfolio · 6 sitesConcept · sample data
SiteCountBehavior
Site Astablethriving
Site Bstablethriving
Site Cstablestressed
Site Dstablewatch
Site Establethriving
Site Fstablewatch

Site C

Early signal: play and exploring are down compared with the reference site. Population count unchanged.
JanJunDec
Behavior signalPopulation count
Compared with reference site · same speciesIn development
Climatebase Fellowship TU München alumni Peer-reviewed in Herpetologica & Herpetological Conservation and Biology Founded 2025
Where we're headed · concept

Every layer of a landscape, in one view.

Today, monitoring data sits in separate places. EthoPulse brings the environmental, ecological and behavioral layers together on one map for each site, so you can see where things are slipping and decide where to act. Switch on the third layer.

Concept preview · illustrative site
  • Hotspots: where behavior shifts before the counts do
  • Trends: each site against a healthy reference, over time
  • Scenarios (later): test management options before you commit
The platform · in development

Software that reads behavior from the footage you already have.

EthoPulse is a monitoring platform for organizations that manage land and wildlife. By adding the missing behavioral layer, it helps NGOs, land trusts, conservation managers and environmental impact assessors understand program impacts early, and put time and budget where they matter most.

Connect

Bring your footage

Camera traps and video from your existing monitoring. No new sensors.

Read

Behavior, automatically

Computer vision tags what animals are doing: foraging, resting, playing, on alert.

Compare

Against a healthy baseline

Each site is scored against a reference site with the same species.

Act

Early signals per site

See which sites are slipping, well before population or biodiversity counts move, and plan.

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Who builds it

Quentin Salomé, co-founder & CTO, leads the platform. A physicist with 10+ years in machine learning and computer vision, he builds the pipeline that turns raw footage into behavior.
Who it's for

Built with the people who watch over land and wildlife.

Conservation NGOs

Know which programmes and sites need attention first.

Land trusts

Show the land in your care is healthy, not just occupied.

Restoration teams

Get an early read on whether a restoration is working.

Consultancies & impact assessors

Add a behavioral lens to environmental impact assessments and monitoring reports.

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Partnerships

Cameron Campbell connects EthoPulse with conservation organizations and data partners, drawing on 15+ years in conservation and sustainable development.
The science underneath

Every animal splits its day three ways. Stress changes the split.

What they have to do, what they need to do, and what they get to do. When home gets harder, the "get to" goes first. Drag the slider.

midnight6 amnoon6 pm one day Thriving

Example split · illustrative, not measured · differs by species
Survivalfinding food, watching for danger, fleeing, keeping warm or cool
Fitnessfinding a mate, raising young, holding territory
Enrichmentplay, exploring, time with others, deep rest
intactdegraded

What's theory and what's still being tested. The three tiers, and the order they compress in (enrichment first, survival last), are the framework's hypothesis, grounded in peer-reviewed behavior research. How an animal's day actually splits between the tiers is still under investigation and will differ by species. Fitness may even take the largest share of the day and still compress before survival does. The hours shown here are an example, not measurements.
Where we are

Science first, then software.

We're validating the signal while we build the platform with early partners.

Done

Peer-reviewed research

Salamander behavior in disturbed habitat.

Now

Framework + discovery

Framework paper, and conversations with practitioners.

Next

Proof of concept

The signal on real partner data.

Then

Platform pilots

Early partners using EthoPulse on their sites.

Team

Ecology, physics and the field.

[Photo: Maggie in the field]
Founder & CEO · the science

Maggie Bliss

Behavioral ecologist. M.Sc. Sustainable Resource Management, TU München. Fulbright Scholar. Climatebase Fellow.

[Photo: Quentin]
Co-founder & CTO · the platform

Quentin Salomé

Physicist (PhD) with 10+ years in machine learning and computer vision and 39 peer-reviewed publications. Leads the technology that reads behavior at scale.

[Photo: Cameron]
Partnerships · the network

Cameron Campbell

15+ years in conservation and sustainable development, with networks across WWF, WII and Climatebase. Connects EthoPulse with NGOs and data partners.

Become an early partner.

Work in wildlife monitoring and tired of the incomplete picture? We'd love to hear from you. Early partners shape what we build, and get first access.

  • Practitioners: 20-minute conversations about your monitoring
  • Data partners: camera-trap or behavioral footage
  • Wildlife biologists: help us validate the science
blissmm16@gmail.com