Old weather

PROJECT

Url:http://www.oldweather.org/
Start date:
End date: Still open
Infrastructure: Zooniverse

TEAM

Official team page:http://www.oldweather.org/team
Leader: Philip Brohan, Climate Scientist, Met Office (UK's national weather service)

PROJECT DEFINITION

Subject

Natural sciences > (environment/climate)

Description

Help scientists recover Arctic and worldwide weather observations made by United States’ ships since the mid-19th century. These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and will improve our knowledge of past environmental conditions. Historians will use your work to track past ship movements and tell the stories of the people on board. oldweather.org

Purpose.

The Old Weather project isn't about proving or disproving global warming. We need to collect as much historical data as we can over the oceans, because if we wish to understand what the weather will do in the future, then we need to understand what the weather was doing in the past. Why scientists need you (retrieved 7/2013)

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ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS

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Grey typology Participation typology Contribution type:
Computing: NO Thinking: YES
Sensing: NO Gaming: NO
Crowdsourcing ☐ Distributed intelligence ☑
Participatory science ☐ Extreme citizen science ☐
Science outreach ☐
Data collection ☐
Data analysis ☑
Data interpretation ☐--------
Gaming
Genre: Gaming elements: achievements
Interface
Data type to manipulate: pictures, text interface enjoyment:
Interface usability: 		Member profiles::N/A
Member profile elements: photo, pseudo


ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK

Guidance Feedback on
Tutorial and documentation: YES
Training sequence: SOMEWHAT
Peer to peer guidance: SOMEWHAT
individual performance: YES
collective performance: YES
research progress: YES

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COMMUNITY

Tools News & Events

Communication: blog, newsletter, forum
Social Network: N/A

Main news site:
Frequency of project news updates: N/A
Type of events:
Frequency of events :

Community description

Community size (volounteers based): 525
Role: Interaction form:
Has official community manager(s): maybe
 Has team work N/A

Other information about community: Member profiles are managed through the Zooinverse portal. However, forum accounts are managed locally by each project.
Community led additions:

OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION



Oldweather.png Yes [[has completion level::High]

http://www.oldweather.org/team



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Natural sciences environment/climate [[Has project purpose::The Old Weather project isn't about proving or disproving global warming. We need to collect as much historical data as we can over the oceans, because if we wish to understand what the weather will do in the future, then we need to understand what the weather was doing in the past. Why scientists need you (retrieved 7/2013)]]


Old Weather: Our Weather’s Past, the Climate’s Future

data analysis

distributed intelligence pictures, text, other: Thinking: yes Computing: no Sensing: no Gaming: no achievements



yes N/A strong yes yes yes

N/A photo, pseudo maybe blog, newsletter, forum N/A


525 N/A Member profiles are managed through the Zooinverse portal. However, forum accounts are managed locally by each project.


N/A


High



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