The Sight Of Road Kill Makes A Pretty, Data-Rich Picture
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Wildlife ecologist Danielle Garneau is making a habit of tracking down road kill. She actually seeks it out, hunting for clues about larger ecological trends. Garneau records it all on a free smartphone app, EpiCollect. Standing by the side of the road in upstate New York, phone in hand, Garneau peers down at a dead, bloody and smelly skunk. She takes a picture of the carcass and opens EpiCollect to input data, including: location, time of day, the road's speed limit, whether the carcass has been scavenged. The data gets sent to the project server, and the road kill appears as a red pushpin on a digital map. Road kill may not be glamorous, but Garneau, who works at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, says these dead critters carry valuable information.
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| 0 | "We're looking at a fine scale at patterns of animal movement — maybe we can pick up migratory patterns, maybe we can see a phrenology change," she says. ... |
| -0.0298523 | "We're looking at a fine scale at patterns of animal movement — maybe we can pick up migratory patterns, maybe we can see a phrenology change," she says. "And also, in the long term, if many of these animals are threatened or they're in a decline, the hope would be that we could share this information with people who could make changes." |
| -0.405368 | "We're embedded in their world, and they're embedded in our world, and the boundaries are kinda blurry," Garneau says. ... |
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Source URL: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/12/02/166320907/the-sight-of-road-kill-makes-a-pretty-data-rich-picture?ft=1&f=1025
The Sight Of Road Kill Makes A Pretty, Data-Rich Picture
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Scientists and citizens are filling up a database on dead critters with their smartphones. The EpiCollect app pulls data such as location, speed limit and the carcass's condition. Wildlife ecologist Danielle Garneau says the project helps track animal movement and may protect species in the future.
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