Time Sink

I have been looking for some good Citizen Science Projects that I could incorporate into labs for my biology students.  Something so that they feel like they are DOING science and contributing to science and not just repeating stuff that has been done over and over by generations of students before them.

I haven't found the magic project yet but I did find the Zooniverse.

This web site has a bunch of projects that anyone can contribute to in their spare time.  I'm working on the "Snapshot Serengeti" project.  Researchers have put camera traps in the Serengeti (in Africa).  Doing this produces millions of images.  If one person had to go through them all they'd go crazy.  So instead they get hundreds of thousands of volunteers to sift through the images and try to identify animals that they see. 

Some are boring (nothing there), some are good scenery but nothing there, some are hard and others are, well, really easy.






















So next time you've got 5 minutes to waste, why not help out SCIENCE?  It's more fun than that silly fruit game.