Today I’m tagging penguins in Antarctica. Not something I’d thought I would ever get the chance to do but here we are. A few hours in and it’s actually quite addictive. But I’m not facing the extreme chill of the southern polar region.
When I say I’m “tagging,” I’m manually annotating penguins, chicks and eggs on photographs taken in the region. Once I’ve marked the images, other citizen taggers can double check my work before penguinologists can begin to analyze the citizen-sourced data.
I’ve become one of the nearly million citizen scientists working to help penguins in the Antarctic region through data analysis on hosted through Zooniverse, a crowdsourcing science platform.
Passionate penguinologist Tom Hart, a junior research fellow in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, is the man behind Penguin Lifelines — a collaborative international project researching the threats faced by Antarctic penguins.
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