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IDENTIFICATION

Participant's homepage
Start date :
  • Beta start date : N/A
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Subject

Description Classifying plankton from images gathered by the In Situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System. Purpose The information can be used to map oceanic carbon dioxide levels, as plankton provide a valid indicator. ? Research question Understanding how plankton types are distributed at a variety of ocean depths.

TEAM

MAIN TEAM LOCATION
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Project team page http://www.planktonportal.org/#/team Leader: Institution: Partner institutions: RSMAS, University of Miami, Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center, BellaMare, Adler Planetarium Contact:

USER TASKS

CONTRIBUTION TYPE: data analysis
PARTICIPATION TYPOLOGY: crowdsourcing


GAMING GENRE NONE
GAMING ELEMENTS: NONE

COMPUTING
THINKING
SENSING
GAMING

Tasks description Measuring and classifying plankton. Interaction with objects

Interface

  • Data type to manipulate: pictures
  • interface enjoyment:
  • Interface usability: easy to use

GUIDANCE

GUIDANCE
  • Tutorial:
  • Peer to peer guidance: Somewhat
  • Training sequence: Somewhat
FEEDBACK ON
  • Individual performance: Somewhat
  • Collective performance: Somewhat
  • Research progress: Somewhat

Feedback and guidance description

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY TOOLS
  • Communication: website, blog, forum
  • Social Network: Twitter, Facebook
  • Member profiles:: N/A
  • Member profile elements:
NEWS & EVENTS

Community description

  • Community size (volounteers based)
  • Role:
  • Interaction form:
  • Has official community manager(s): N/A
  • Has team work N/A
  • Other:
  • Community led additions:


Other information

PROJECT

Url:http://www.planktonportal.org/
Start date:
End date:
Infrastructure: Zooniverse

TEAM

Official team page:http://www.planktonportal.org/#/team
Leader:

Partner institutions: RSMAS, University of Miami, Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center, BellaMare, Adler Planetarium


PROJECT DEFINITION


Subject

Natural sciences > biology, biological oceanography, planktology, climatology (nature/conservation)

Description

Classifying plankton from images gathered by the In Situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System.

Purpose.

The information can be used to map oceanic carbon dioxide levels, as plankton provide a valid indicator.

Research question.

Understanding how plankton types are distributed at a variety of ocean depths.

ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS


Tasks description.

Measuring and classifying plankton.

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Grey typology Participation typology Contribution type:
Computing: NO Thinking: NO
Sensing: NO Gaming: NO
Crowdsourcing Distributed intelligence
Participatory science Extreme citizen science
Science outreach
Data collection
Data analysis
Data interpretation --------
Gaming
Genre: Gaming elements:
Interface
Data type to manipulate: pictures interface enjoyment:
Interface usability: easy to use
Member profiles::N/A
Member profile elements:


ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK


Guidance Feedback on
Tutorial and documentation: YES
Training sequence: SOMEWHAT
Peer to peer guidance: SOMEWHAT
individual performance: Somewhat
collective performance: Somewhat
research progress: Somewhat

.

COMMUNITY


Tools News & Events

Communication: website, blog, forum
Social Network: Twitter, Facebook

Main news site: http://blog.planktonportal.org/
Frequency of project news updates: several/week
Type of events:
Frequency of events :

Community description

Community size (volounteers based):
Role: Interaction form:
Has official community manager(s): N/A
Has team work N/A

Other information about community:
Community led additions:

OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION




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http://www.planktonportal.org/#/team



No biology, biological oceanography, planktology, climatology Natural sciences nature/conservation The information can be used to map oceanic carbon dioxide levels, as plankton provide a valid indicator. Understanding how plankton types are distributed at a variety of ocean depths.

Plankton Portal Measuring and classifying plankton. data analysis

crowdsourcing pictures, other: Thinking: no Computing: no Sensing: no Gaming: no



easy to use yes N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

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N/A website, blog, forum Twitter, Facebook


http://blog.planktonportal.org/

several/week


N/A


Medium



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