{"id":5129,"date":"2016-09-10T14:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T19:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2016-09-10T14:17:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T19:17:06","slug":"everythings-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/09\/10\/everythings-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything’s a Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

And if it gets valid results, that’s not bad. The latest subject, which I ran across a month ago and forgot about, is the identification of new species via iNaturalist<\/a>, as reported<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0npr.org<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

Sam Kieschnick, an urban biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife, says an individual photo might not be groundbreaking \u2014 and true, you’re not getting any Pok\u00e9Coins or other rewards \u2014 but each observation adds to our understanding of biodiversity, like a mosaic or pointillist painting.<\/p>\n

“It’s just a single dot if you look up close, but when you start to take a step back, you can get to see these patterns that start to develop,” Kieschnick says.<\/p>\n

There have been major discoveries as a result of photo sharing on iNaturalist.<\/p>\n

In 2013, for example, a man in Colombia uploaded a photo of a bright red and black frog. A poison frog expert in Washington, D.C., spotted it and eventually determined it was a brand-new species. The pair co-authored the results<\/a> in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa.<\/p>\n

One of the developers behind iNaturalist is Scott Loarie<\/a>. He says when he partnered with naturalist Ken-ichi Ueda<\/a>, the initial idea was to use it as a tool to get people engaged with nature, and later, as a tool for science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Making things fun seems to be the way, at least in Western culture. It’d be interesting to know how well this approach works in other cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And if it gets valid results, that’s not bad. The latest subject, which I ran across a month ago and forgot about, is the identification of new species via iNaturalist, as reported\u00a0by\u00a0npr.org: Sam Kieschnick, an urban biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife, says an individual photo might not be groundbreaking \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5130,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions\/5130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}