Blog 7: Snow Spotting

 One thing i noticed about the demographics of the zooniverse is that the researchers can be anyone in particular so i think that anyone can participate in the zooniverse projects. I think this might be the science with the least amount of projects because it mainly sounds like a volunteer position for research. The topic i chose was from the climate section and it dealt with Snow Spotting.  While researching about this topic, i found it to be interesting because in my topic i was given three photos that i had to examine and to me they all looked the same but there was some differences among them. There was barely any snow in the first picture and then it looked like rain in the second picture and then in the third picture it was sunny. The research concluded that forests can intercept 60% of total annual snowfall and 25-45% of the intercepted snow can be lost from the watershed back to the atmosphere through sublimation.
              I think for someone who is interested in cloud-spotting will love snow spotting because of not only the similarities they share, but with snow you can ask yourself questions like how much rainfall attributed to the amount of snow one forest had received. It is a fun lesson offered on the website because it is not your typical "Here are facts about such and such" but it is a rather site that lets you analyze the images in front of you to help the research group's end goal of finding out about snow interception patterns. Zooniverse offered a creative and intriguing way of looking at science through the perspective of a do or die situation. I was able to help my research group attain their goal by proving their theory and i think with this type of creativity it can get students who casually enjoy science outside of school to participate in and maybe spark an idea in their heads or put them on a path to a future in science. I also think people might continue to volunteer depending on their attitudes toward the research but with the interaction between citizen participants and the scientists, they should be convinced that this would not be a snooze-fest.

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