Published in Advances in Marine Biology
Historically sharks have been seen either as a source of income through harvesting, or as a nuisance and danger. The economic value of sharks has traditionally been measured as the total value of sharks caught for liver oil, fins, or meat for consumption. Sharks have also been killed to near extinction in cases where they were seen as a threat to f...
Published in Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education
Citizen science can be defined as the process by which any non-scientist collects data or uses the scientific method under the guidance or mentorship of a scientist. This article presents an overview of several marine citizen-science projects as practiced by three non-profit organizations.
Published in Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education
Citizen science can be defined as the process by which any non-scientist collects data or uses the scientific method under the guidance or mentorship of a scientist. This article presents an overview of several marine citizen-science projects as practiced by three non-profit organizations.
Published in Neoplasia
Using Citizen Science to Identify Sevengill Sharks Barbara Lloyd and Michael Bear, Ocean Sanctuaries Ocean Sanctuaries, a San Diego NPO founded to support and create marine citizen science projects is using the pattern recognition algorithm in 'Wildbook,' a web-based application for wildlife data management, to identify Sevengill sharks in both Cal...
Identifying Sevengill Sharks with Wildbook Authors: 1.Barbara Lloyd (Ocean Sanctuaries.org) 2.Michael Bear (Ocean Sanctuaries.org) 3. Jason Holmberg (Wildme.org) Abstract Our goal is to attempt the identification of Sevengill sharks (Notorynchus cepedianus) that may be returning to S...
Published in Neoplasia
Traditionally, academic science has used graduate students to collect data in many cases, but community science, the term by which citizen science is also known, has revolutionized the process by which large amounts of data can be collected accurately by large numbers of non-scientists under the training and mentorship of scientists. There has been...
In March of 2014, another San Diego diver and I decided to form our own 501c3 non-profit group dedicated to promoting and supporting citizen science projects such as this one. The Sevengill Shark ID Project is now the flagship citizen science project for Ocean Sanctuaries [http://oceansanctuaries.org/wordpress/citizen-science-projects/]
Published in Neoplasia
Traditionally, academic science has used graduate students to collect data in many cases, but community science, the term by which citizen science is also known, has revolutionized the process by which large amounts of data can be collected accurately by large numbers of non-scientists under the training and mentorship of scientists. There has been...
