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Audience: For Washington State University BIO 107 Students Only.
1. Go to www.zooniverse.org. You MUST Register and Create a Zooniverse Account in order to track the classifications you have completed.
2. Search for The Wild Southwest.
3. Read about the research and how you are contributing to the project as a volunteer.
4. Complete the mandatory tutorial.
5. We will consider 40 classifications= 1 hour volunteer service. Once you have completed your classifications, you must take a screenshot of your account with your name and the project plumage icon with the amount of classifications. When you submit an impact to GivePulse, drop the screenshot for our CCE staff to verify the amount of hours you volunteered.
About Zooniverse: The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. This research is made possible by volunteers — more than a million people around the world who come together to assist professional researchers. Our goal is to enable research that would not be possible, or practical, otherwise. Zooniverse research results in new discoveries, datasets useful to the wider research community, and many publications.
About The Wild Southwest
Motion triggered cameras, a.k.a. "camera traps," are a powerful tool for monitoring populations of many different wildlife species in a safe and non-invasive way. However, camera traps generate huge numbers of images that can be time-consuming to sort through and identify. Read more.
Wondering if you should register to volunteer? Based on the CDC guidelines, we are asking you the following questions:
- Have you been exposed to someone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19? See the CDC’s risk assessment guidance.
- Do you have symptoms consistent with COVID-19? Symptoms can include a cough or shortness of breath or at least two of the following: Fever, Chills, Repeated shaking with chills, Muscle pain, Headache, Sore throat, New loss of taste or smell. See the CDC’s symptom information.
If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, we ask you not to register. We are doing all we can to align with best practices and keep our community healthy.
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