Development Team

The Mothbox was originally developed by a core team of Andy Quitmeyer, Hubert Szczgiel, and Kitty Quitmeyer

  • Andy Quitmeyer

Dr. Andy Quitmeyer designs new ways to interact with the natural world. Quitmeyer has worked with large organizations like Cartoon Network, IDEO, and the Smithsonian, taught as a tenure-track professor, and even had his research turned into a (silly) television series called “Hacking the Wild.” distributed by Discovery Networks.

He spends most of his time volunteering with smaller organizations and communities, and co-founded the field-station/makerspace, Digital Naturalism Laboratories. In the rainforest of Gamboa, Panama, Dinalab blends biological fieldwork and technological crafting with a community of local and international scientists, artists and engineers.

  • Hubert Szczgiel

Hubert Szczgiel is a tropical ecologist specializing in scalable biodiversity monitoring. Hubert has worked with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute since 2016. His current research pairs broad-spectrum biodiversity monitoring with new financial tools to enable reforestation. His research inspired the development of the original Mothbox.

  • Kitty Quitmeyer

Kitty Quitmeyer is the Co-founder of Dinalab, and lead technician of the protoyping facilities. She is a skilled craftsperson passionate about endangered animals, books, activism, and the environment. She works weekly at the APPC animal rescue in Panama, and raises funds with her crafts to support them.

Acknowledgements

The Mothbox has been made possibly with help from many individuals and groups like

  • Daisy Dent
  • Yash Sondhi
  • Bri Johns
  • Crowther Lab
  • Owen Mcmillan
  • Sol Parra Santos
  • Experiment.com
  • Wildlabs.net
  • ARM
  • Christopher Lawrence
  • Phoebe Zarnetske and the Michigan X-prize group
  • GOSH community openhardware.science
  • Lee Wilkins
  • Julian Stirling
  • Wildlives Rhode Island group
  • Matt Flagg
  • Pro-eco azuero *Totumas Crew
  • Jessie Tejara-Fabian
  • Jeff Dietrich
  • Mulget Amaru
  • Ponterra
  • Beetlepalooza (Sponsored by Imageomics Lab at Ohio State University)
  • Bucket of Bugs Beetlepalooza group
    • Elizabeth Campolongo, Ernie Parke, Andy Quitmeyer, Matt Thompson
  • Autodesk Foundation (Software Donation)
  • University of Washington (Project Storage Space)