This week (Thursday 2 May), British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is inviting the public to become ‘penguin detectives’ and spend five minutes counting emperor penguins to help with vital research into these iconic animals.
This week (Thursday 2 May), British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is inviting the public to become ‘penguin detectives’ and spend five minutes counting emperor penguins to help with vital research into these iconic animals.
To understand more about how emperor penguins are being affected by our changing climate, researchers use satellite images to monitor remote emperor penguin colonies; the brown stains of the birds’ guano stands out clearly against the stark white of ice and snow.
Now, researchers at BAS have launched the ‘Polar Observatory’ on Zooniverse – an online citizen-science platform – to recruit ‘penguin detectives’ to help validate how accurate these satellite images are as a tool for monitoring penguin populations.
Read more at: British Antarctic Survey
Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) on the sea ice close to Halley Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf. (Photo Credit: British Antarctic Survey)
