This field season we are trying something new. We have identified a small area and created a mini-project. We have also revised the identification workflow on fossilfinder to make the questions more relevant to the problems we have. While we are in the field we will be surveying along this small area and interacting with the fossilfinder forum by visiting and identifying problem objects along with the interesting things that are being found.
Hopefully you will join in and help classify this area while we are still here in the field.
Our aim is to be able to directly compare very diligent field survey with the new virtual survey methods that are created through citizen science
We arrived yesterday in Ileret and the first thing we just had to do was to see if we could relocate finds located by our beta testers from the images we collected last season.
One of the pictures we placed online during the beta was flagged a few times as containing numerous fossil bone fragments. Here is the picture from the preview:
An interesting image from the fossilfinder beta
GPS in hand we drove out to area 8. After a few moments of figuring out the best way to use the gps data we had we found those fossil bones on the surface:
fossil bones found during ground truthing
This is an excellent result and means that our method is working!
