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We need your help to understand how climate change is affecting the development of embryos in aquatic environments!
Learn moreWe have two workflows in this project that you can contribute to (1) Embryos on the Move - in this project we ask you to analyse video of embryos and tell us what you can see and count and (2) Embryo Feature ID - in this project we ask you to analyse images of embryos and annotate what you see and measure.
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Early life stage animals can have heightened sensitivity to their environment - yet our understanding of this sensitivity is extremely limited. Your contribution is invaluable in helping us to understand the sensitivity of this crucial period.
Embryo CamAbout Embryo Cam
We are in a geological age known as the Anthropocene, a period where humans are rapidly altering the earth’s climate and environment.
Research into the impact of climate change on the lives of animals is vital to our understanding of how species will cope in current and future environments. However, considerably little is known about the effect of climate change on the earliest, and possibly the most sensitive, stages of life.
To help address this knowledge gap, we have built an autonomous bioimaging platform capable of capturing the development of aquatic embryos under experimental conditions that simulate climate change scenarios. So far, we have generated millions of images of developing animals and we need your help to analyse them! In this project, we ask you to measure and identify key developmental events of embryos developing under different climate change scenarios.
We aim to use your measurements to build a computer model, using artificial intelligence, to identify different morphological, physiological and behavioural traits of embryos developing in the Anthropocene. Your effort will help us better understand how early life stages are responding to environmental change and contribute to a model which will be able to analyse new data faster and more thoroughly than ever before!