In September 2013, a 3,000 acre fire burned on Mt. Diablo in the San Francisco Bay Area. Plants are now starting to sprout in the burned area, and a citizen science group wants hikers to use their smartphones to take pictures of the vegetation recovery and succession. What's cool about this is that they set up metal brackets on signs so that everyone can place their phone in the exact same place to capture the exact same view. People can upload their photos to Twitter, Instagram or Flicker with a certain hashtag. This can help scientists monitor the plant and animal species that appear after the fire without having scientists sitting on the trails all the time.
I'd like to encourage my Bay Area friends who go hiking on Mt. Diablo to try it!
http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/04/24/hikers-use-smartphones-to-capture-fire-recovery-on-mt-diablo/
I'd like to encourage my Bay Area friends who go hiking on Mt. Diablo to try it!
http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/04/24/hikers-use-smartphones-to-capture-fire-recovery-on-mt-diablo/
One of the photo brackets on Mt. Diablo. Photo credit: Lauren Sommer/KQED