I’m sure many folks have occasionally daydreamed about getting paid to use iNat. Well, if so, (maybe) your dream has come true? I came across this job posting this morning: https://www.researchgate.net/job/1013726_Ecologists_Naturalists_and_Taxonomic_Experts-Remote_Job which sounds very much like …

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I asked Dani Rabaiotti about disturbance increasing biodiversity. Response: "Definitely! We exclude invasives from all our metrics, and additionally that’s why we tested our metrics carefully on these kinds of scenarios and chose ones that best track change towards a healthy ecosystem, rather than…

I would be interested to know what their metrics are, if such information is available, especially if they have published a report or description somewhere.

[image] sedgequeen: The reason for general vegetation imagery rather than photographing individuals plants is because it allows us to photograph a far higher number of plants rapidly during data collection than it would otherwise – we know that only some will be identifiable in each image, but b…

[image] cthawley: Yep, sounds like an iNat IDer. In fact, their profiles of employees include at least one self-identified iNat IDer. I wonder whether @PdFuenteB , the prolific iNat identifier named in that profile, would be willing to share any thoughts on the experience of working as an iden…

Last year I spent several weeks reviewing about 300,000 camera trap images that had been loaded into an Access database and added species IDs and other annotations to them. I was paid for that but it was part of my full time job. It was hard on the eyes after 8 hours each day.

[image] jnstuart: I spent several weeks reviewing about 300,000 camera trap images that’s a lot. if i assume 40 hours per week for 10 weeks, that’s still 750 images per hour (12.5 images per minute, or <5 sec per image).

Depending on how the camera traps took pics, a lot of the pics can have nothing in them (like they are just taking a pic a min, etc.). I’ve worked with students on processing camera trap data, and they are often just arrowing very quickly through pics (1/sec or maybe faster) until something appears …

My best day was 18,000 images/day reviewed. An average day was more like 8,000. But to be fair, most were large mammals so the review time per image was pretty short, a few seconds.

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