The Snapshot Wisconsin undertaking lately collected their 100 millionth path digital camera picture! What’s extra, this milestone coincides with the undertaking’s 10-year anniversary. Congratulations to the crew and everybody who’s participated!
Snapshot Wisconsin makes use of a statewide community of volunteer-managed path cameras to observe and higher perceive the state’s numerous wildlife from white-tailed deer to snowshoe hares, whooping cranes, and way more.
“It has been wonderful to get a glimpse of our wild treasures through the Snapshot lens,” mentioned one volunteer. “Satisfying to assist advance wildlife analysis within the digital age.”
Snapshot Wisconsin was launched in 2013 with assist from a NASA grant, and is overseen by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. It lately received a brand new grant from NASA’s Citizen Science for Earth Systems Program.
Volunteer classifications of the species current in path digital camera photographs have fueled many different scientific investigations through the years. You, too, can become involved within the merriment by visiting the project’s site on the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform and serving to classify their musical artist picture season at this time!