Ecologgers, As you may know, this friday, Jan 15th, some parts of the old world will see an annular solar eclipse. Those of us in North America will miss out on this eclipse, but people in its path have an interesting opportunity to participate in a collaborative project! EclipseWatch (http://www.eclipsewatch.in/) is an intriguing one-day citizen science / crowdsourcing project from the people behind India's MigrantWatch (http://www.migrantwatch.in/) program. So if you happen to be in the region, consider participating - see details below. And if not, perhaps you know someone from the region who can contribute, so please pass this along (via other emai lists / twitter / facebook / other social networks too!).
cheers, Madhu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Madhusudan Katti Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Biology Department of Biology, M/S SB73 California State University, Fresno Fresno, CA 93740-8034 Email: [email protected] Tel: 559.278.1460 Fax: 559.278.3963 Lab: http://www.reconciliationecology.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Begin forwarded message: > From: Suhel Quader <[email protected]> > Date: January 13, 2010 8:55:08 AM PST > To: MigrantWatch <[email protected]> > Subject: [MigrantWatch] EclipseWatch - Watch animals as well as the eclipse > on 15th Jan! > Reply-To: [email protected] > > Dear MigrantWatcher, > > This email is an announcement for a one-day sister project of > MigrantWatch. Do join! > > EclipseWatch invites enthusiastic people all across India to watch > birds and other animals during the solar eclipse on Friday, 15th > January. > > Humans have long looked at solar eclipses with a sense of wonder and > fear. But we are not the only ones on the planet to react to such > phenomena -- animals too change their behaviour during eclipses. Have > you ever wondered how your pets and other animals around you change > their behaviour during a solar eclipse? Contribute to finding the > answer: participate in EclipseWatch! > > EclipseWatch tracks changes in the behaviour of animals in response to > the solar eclipse across the country. All it takes to participate is > to spend about a minute each hour through the day watching for flying > birds and listening for sounds. Participants track certain 'indicator' > species, which include crows, pigeons, sparrows, kites, dogs and bats. > To sign up, and for more details, go to http://www.eclipsewatch.in > > Anyone can contribute in collecting valuable information at a > nationwide scale. Such an effort has never been attempted before, and > is not possible without your participation! So please join us, and > spread the word to your friends! > > Until the 15th! > > Suhel (for EclipseWatch) > > Our apologies if you receive this message from multiple sources. > > > Look for us on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=248209759157 > > Website: http://www.eclipsewatch.in/ > Email: eclipsewatch at gmail.com > > EclipseWatch > Citizen Science Programme > National Centre for Biological Sciences > GKVK campus, Bellary Road > Bangalore 560 065 > -- > You received this message because you are a registered participant in > MigrantWatch. If you would like to unregister yourself from MigrantWatch, > please send an email to [email protected]. If you would like to continue > participating, but want to stop receiving announcements from MigrantWatch, > send an email to [email protected]
