Funding body: CANARIE (Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network)
Project Description
A crowd-sourced, ocean science observation game in which volunteers help analyze deep-sea videos – 60 seconds at a time (no experience required!)
Volunteers watch short 60-second segments of video and describe what they see by selecting from fields including: sea life, water clarity, seafloor composition, and any other objects
More than 500 volunteers from around the world helped to view deep-sea video samples from the observatory in Barkley Canyon and to estimate numbers of sablefish
The Barkley Canyon videos are part of a larger research project looking at the influence of food supply on species abundance and diversity at the ocean floor
Studies have shown that citizen scientists can be called upon to help experts analyze vast amounts of data generated by the observatories
Uses underwater cameras from Ocean Networks Canada's subsea network across the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic coasts
