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Project Noah. Project Noah. Project Noah is a free mobile application that can be used to explore and document local wildlife.

Project Noah

"Noah" is an acronym for "networked organisms and habitats". Available worldwide as an iPhone app in iTunes and Android app in Google Play,[1] Project Noah aims to become a common mobile platform for documenting the world's organisms. Beyond documentation, the iPhone app offers users an opportunity to participate in ongoing citizen science research projects by tagging contributions into specific field missions and can be used as a location-based field guide as well. All contributors are connected with an online community. The project's co-founder, Yasser Ansari, believes that "not only is there an educational need and an environmental need but a deep, deep human need for all of us to reconnect with our planet.

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Project Noah is a fun way to explore and document wildlife. The technology platform and community we’ve built also provide a powerful way for research groups to collect important ecological data. The purpose of the project is to mobilize and inspire a new generation of nature lovers. Project Noah Would Be Swamp Thing's Favorite iPad App. NOAH iPhone App Lets You Document and Explore Local Wildlife. Images via NOAH There's a reason to practice your iPhone photography skills like Trevor Reichman has done - more and more citizen scientists apps are popping up that put you in the driver's seat for documenting the flora and fauna around your for science's sake.

NOAH iPhone App Lets You Document and Explore Local Wildlife

NOAH, or the Networked Organisms and Habitats app is the latest one to crop up, giving users not only a great platform for recording information, but it also tells you more about what's in your area and sends you out on specific missions! With NOAH, you can photograph an interesting plant, bug or animal that you want to learn about, send in the photo along with a little info about where you found it, and store it in the species database.

You can sort through the database to find out more about the flora and fauna around you, and your uploaded data will be added upon by local experts. You can also help out those studying local wildlife by working with networked research groups. 10 Things You Can Do to Help the Gulf Coast Clean the Oil Spill. PASS CHRISTIAN, MS - MAY 03: Workers clean the beach of debris as it is prepared for possible contamination from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on May 3, 2010 in Pass Christian, Mississippi.

10 Things You Can Do to Help the Gulf Coast Clean the Oil Spill

Oil is still leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead at an estimated rate of 1,000-5,000 barrels a day. Alarming photos of dead sea turtles washed ashore—as well as satellite images of an ever-spreading oil slick—demonstrate that a serious ordeal is ahead for the Gulf Coast. The April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caused a spill that has spread more than 130 miles so far. How an ecology app for sharing nature photos built a community—and became a business. A couple of months ago, I found a ladybug in my bathroom.

How an ecology app for sharing nature photos built a community—and became a business.

I released it back into the wild—well, Brooklyn—but I probably should have taken a picture of it first for Project NOAH. This new mobile ecology platform is turning images of sporadic animal and plant sightings in the confines of homes, backyards, and neighborhood parks into scientific contributions on a mass scale, and it became a quickly acquired business in the process. In late February, then-New York University students Yasser Ansari and Martin Ceperley launched Project NOAH (Networked Organisms and Habitats), a database of spottings, a field guide, and a repository for ecology surveys, including the Lost Ladybug Project. Just seven months later, the platform that started as a homework assignment has cataloged almost 5,000 sightings from Central Park to Beijing and is being used by students from San Diego to Brooklyn.

Last month, National Geographic purchased a stake in the company. Noah: An Online Ark. Project Noah: Networked Organisms and Habitats. Noah: Networked Organism. Finding the Positive in Cellphones for Children. “Every year I ask him, because I get older every year,” Andreas, now 11 and still cellphoneless, said the other day.

Finding the Positive in Cellphones for Children

If Andreas had one, he could keep a virtual pet alien with the Furdiburb app, play the video game Doodle Jump and not get bored when his friends ignore him to watch videos on YouTube. None of this persuades his father, George. “It’s distracting; it’s a diversion,” Haralambou, a physician, said by land line, summing up the universal parent perspective. “He needs to be concentrating on his schoolwork.” But for one week this summer, at a free camp held at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, Andreas added an extra argument to his arsenal: maybe cellphones can be schoolwork. The project was part of an experiment by the New Youth City Learning Network, which takes as a premise that most children already exist in a digital world. In a group of villages in rural India, meanwhile, the Digital Study Hall uses mobile phones to create a community among isolated schoolteachers. What kind of beetle? This app knows.

The Project Noah app asks people to upload photos, GPS coordinates and other anecdotal info about wildlife they see.

What kind of beetle? This app knows

An update to Project Noah app will be launched in December The app also seeks to create personal connections to the natural world Free app features challenges to encourage people to learn about nearby plants and animals (CNN) -- Ever seen a tree and wondered if it was a maple or an oak? Bespectacled scientists of yore would carry around hefty field guides, made up of hundreds of pages of text and photos.