Monitoring Vanishing Marine Algae With Your Smartphone
Posted by Tsing Mui in Tropical Fish Hobbyist Blog on March 15, 2013 at 9:15 am
Two weeks ago, a group of sailors off the coast of New Zealand leaned over the side of their boat, dropped a contraption into the Pacific Ocean and watched it disappear. Using an app they’d downloaded to a smartphone, they logged a reading from the underwater device, along with their GPS location and the water temperature. In just a few minutes’ time, they had become the first participants in a new program launched by the UK’s Plymouth University Marine Institute which allows citizen scientists to help climatologists study the effects of climate change on the oceans.
Source: Smithsonian
Photo: Richard Kirby
