Zooniverse Overview

Overview of the Zooniverse and some of its current projects. Including more detail on Galaxy Zoo, Planet Hunters and Old Weather.

[Note: This talk includes videos of the Zooniverse sites in action, which will only appear as single images here.]

Transcript

1. Image: Dirk Terrell Zooniverse Helping Scientists Online
2. Planet Hunters: find and mark planets 200,000 volunteers planethunters.org classifications 15,000,000
5. 16  years
6. 16  years every  day!
7. Cogni1ve Surplus
8. The Zooniverse Helping Scientists Online
9. Galaxy Zoo: help astronomers classify galaxies 350,000 volunteers galaxyzoo.org classifications 150m
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16. Whale FM: Listen to whale calls to decode their language 10,000 volunteers whale.fm classifications 150,000
18. Bat Detective: listen for bats are you drive through the forests of Europe 1 month batdetective.org calls to be analysed 4,500,000
20. Seafloor Explorer: dive under the surface and tell us what you see 1 month seafloorexplorer.org classifications 900,000
22. Moon Zoo: mark craters and boulders on high-resolution data 9.45 wales moonzoo.org classifications 3,300,000
24. Cell Slider: answer simple questions about medical data to help the effort to find treatments for breast cancer. 24 hours cellslider.net classifications 19,000
26. The Milky Way Project: measure and map our galaxy in infrared 35,000 volunteers milkywayproject.org drawings 3,200,000
28. Cyclone Center: classify tropical storms and cyclones as they race across the globe 100,000 classifications cyclonecenter.org data from 20-30 years
29. Old Weather: transcribe the logs of WW1 vessels as they travel the globe, collecting valuable climate data 25,000 volunteers oldweather.org pages 1,000,000
32. THE  TREASURE  MAP
33. THE  TREASURE  MAP
35. zooniverse.org Robert Simpson rob@zooniverse.org @orbitingfrog