You can't miss the dramatic view at Pilar Point near Half Moon Bay. But look a little closer, and you just might discover a hidden world.
Armed with cellphone cameras, a team from the California Academy of Sciences joined volunteers in what's now become an international competition.You can't miss the dramatic view at Pilar Point near Half Moon Bay. But look a little closer, and you just might discover a hidden world.
Armed with cellphone cameras, Young and a team from the California Academy of Sciences joined a small army of volunteers, in what's now become an international competition. It's known as the City Nature Challenge, and the goal is to photograph and identify as many plant and animal species as possible in a matter of days. In the slippery tide pools around the point, they discovered everything from crabs to sea stars to anemones.
"From the Philippines to Madagascar to Kazakhstan. And it's just really incredible. We're actually having people organizing and doing this challenge in all seven continents, including Antarctica. Yeah. And it's really incredible," VanDamme said. "And there have been about 1.6 million observations. So that's 1.6 million individual records that tell us something about where a plant and animal, where it's found right now and those data are critically important for me," Johnson said.The Academy regularly tracks endangered populations like the Sunflower Sea Star and local kelp forests, both, hit by rising ocean temperatures. The work is often as painstaking as it is vital.
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