Many national weather services, and other governmental, non-governmental, and commercial organisations also have large paper or imaged archives; the Galaxy
Zoo people are working with the Met Office and the National Maritime Museum on an amazingly cool new crowd - sourced project to recover weather records from millions of imaged pages of Royal Navy log books.
«Knowing, scientifically, that
people who have
been trained to identify individual bears can do so
with a reasonable expectation of accuracy helps us to know that the
work we
are doing to learn about these bears
is based on good science, not just personal opinion» said Russ Van Horn, Ph.D., a lead researcher on the study and a research scientist for the San Diego
Zoo Institute for Conservation Research.