Endangered Kelp Forests in Tasmania
Not seeing much kelp in the Tasmania images taken in recent years? This may be due to the fact that this region has seen dramatic declines in Giant Kelp (Macrocystis) over the past few decades. This...
View ArticleKeybindings!
Looking for a quicker way to move through the non-kelp images? You can now type ‘n’ on your keyboard instead of clicking the “NEXT IMAGE” button. You can also use ‘c’ to toggle the cloud button. Happy...
View ArticleWhere are we getting these images?
All of the images we are currently using in Floating Forests come from the Landsat satellite program. The Landsat program is an incredible series of satellites managed jointly by NASA and USGS that has...
View ArticleNASA Article on Floating Forests
Check out this NASA feature article on Floating Forests!
View ArticleTasmania Images Back!
You may have noticed that for the past few months Floating Forests has only been serving up California images. The Tasmania images that we were analyzing last year have been offline due to some image...
View ArticleLet There Be Coast!
Note: This post is from Briana Harder, our newest Science Team member! We encountered Briana in Talk where she not only noted some issues, but then wrote code to reprocess images to fix them! Needless...
View ArticleFloating Forests Highlighted by the Citizen Science Association!
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View ArticleFloating Forests Goes to Washington
Last week I had the opportunity to take part in a citizen science forum organized by the White House. It was inspiring to see how committed the White House is to harnessing the power of citizen...
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