Hello Zooniverse!
Today we're very pleased to announce our latest
project: Notes from Nature (http://www.notesfromnature.org) - through your efforts we can
help scientists and researchers make better conservation
decisions.
People have been collecting specimens from the natural world
for centuries - minerals, plants, fungi and animals. Today, there are an
estimated two billion specimens housed in natural history museums around the
world! These biological collections document where species and populations exist
now and where they existed decades and centuries before, so they hold
irreplaceable information necessary for uncovering the patterns of changes in
species distributions and ecosystem composition over time. Scientists use such
data and information in order to address key environmental issues we are facing
right now, such as the impacts of climate change and how diseases affect
wildlife and humans.
We need you to help us transcribe that data and make
it available for further use in biodiversity and conservation
research.
Visit the new site now at http://www.notesfromnature.org
Thanks for all your
help, and we hope to see you on our projects soon.
Arfon and the
Zooniverse Team
PS - Find the new blog at http://blog.notesfromnature.org and follow @nfromn on
Twitter
PPS Find us on Twitter @the_zooniverse (our projects are on
Twitter too, for example: @galaxyzoo and @cyclonecenter)
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