On our last trip to Florida caves we had difficulties in identifying cave critters because the information is spread around the internet..articles here, pictures there, some videos and a lot of time needed to search and retrieve it all.
So it got me thinking, wouldn't it be cool to have a site that collected info from underwater troglobites specifically...They are so cool they deserve their own place on the web. I set up a web site to aggregate all the publicly available web data sources for easy searching and entering sightings....it's got some cool pictures and videos already but it'd need contributions from many cavers to give enough data to draw conclusions from the sightings. www.stygobites.com <http://www.stygobites.com/> Users can register and link in images, video and make sightings of cave creatures. I'll keep the site up and hope it can be a good resource for cavers...the audience of folks that may be interested in it is kind of small. I've received feedback from scientist folks doing biological surveys in caves so I've already got some improvements in queue. The sightings functions will be updated to allow retrieval and sorting by user entry qualifications as well as allowing sightings of dead creatures and an automated email when those come in to water quality people so they can go do a sample quickly after the die off. I don't use php at work so the code is a little rusty as i just picked it up for this project. Suggestions are welcome. Thanks Michael David
