Test Your Shark ID Skills and Help
Scientists at the Same Time
Article by Support Our Sharks (16 March 2016)
How
good are your shark ID skills? What if you could put your skills to
the test whilst also contributing to scientific research? Would you
be interested? Well, now you can!
In addition to being able to submit your own shark* sightings
to the SharkBase Citizen Science project (shark-base.org), you can now also help to verify the accuracy of sightings submitted by
other SharkBase users. Therefore,
even if you have never
personally seen a shark* in the wild, you can still get involved
and contribute to
the SharkBase project.
With hundreds of
sightings uploaded to the SharkBase website every month, our
research team is calling on your help to verify the accuracy of
these sightings. This may involve the identification of species from
photographs or simply checking the accuracy of sighting details such
as location, depth, size, etc. Every sighting that a user verifies
provides our research team with vital information about the
sighting’s accuracy, which will ensure that the highest level of
data quality is maintained.
If you would like to
participate, go
to Verify Sightings
to get started, and for more information on other ways
that
you can participate in
the project, go to the
Get Started
page.
(*Includes
all sharks, rays, and chimaeras)
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