bio-blitz
gregladen | May 31, 2009May 31 - June 3, 2009
What's this all about?
Every species has a geographic distribution, and these are changing rapidly due to climate change and other factors. In fact, the environment is changing faster than professional scientists can monitor it, and the only way to understand this response is to recruit amateurs to make and report observations. "Citizen science" has a long history in biology, but, in many ways, it is now crucial to both science and conservation.
We are trying to demonstrate the concept of a "global human sensor net" as part of the eBiosphere informatics challenge.…