All hands on deck.

• Autores: Kalee Thompson
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 306, Nº. 2, 2012, págs. 56-59
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses the role of the citizen scientists in climatology research. Citizen science projects utilize volunteers to help researchers conduct labor-intensive studies, including using volunteers for reporting species sightings, assisting in the categorizing of images, and analyzing data. Topics include an overview of a collaborative project involving a team of international scientists and nonexperts, called the Old Weather project, that is attempting to fill gaps in the Earth's historical climate record. Volunteers are tasked with searching through digitized logbooks of World War One (WWI)-era ships and entering weather data into the project's Web site, which is then added to the U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's records.