If you wish your internet procrastination breaks involved fewer weird Facebook relatives and more animal hordes, you're in luck. The citizen-science enablers at the Zooniverse have just launched a new project called Penguin Watch
. You can count penguin babies, squint at rocks, and be back to work before your coffee cools. And help scientists, if you're into that. The Zooniverse
hosts over two dozen crowdsourced science projects. You can click and scroll through stars, craters, the ocean floor, and even old notebooks to help researchers classify data. (The project called Snapshot Serengeti
has already been completed, though, probably because I did half the photos myself.) The newest dataset comes from remote cameras that are monitoring more than 30 penguin colonies in Antarctica. To participate, users view photos and tag adult penguins, chicks, eggs, and any other animals lurking nearby. The Oxford University scientists behind the project, led by zoologist ...
