Finished! Looks like this project is out of data at the moment!
We've reached our classification goal! Thank you SO MUCH for your help!
Check out our first paper using these data, and read our blog post here.
The Team
We're a team of researchers and volunteers working in Dr. Hillary Young's lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. You can check out our lab webpage here. We've teamed up with the ecological monitoring unit at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, who have been critical to making this work possible. Find out more about Ol Pejeta here.
Researchers
Georgia Titcomb -- Georgia is a Postdoctoral Researcher UCSB, and she headed up the watering holes project while she was a graduate student. Georgia is working on many different aspects of water sources in arid landscapes -- from the ways in which water can change host movement, vegetation, and even soil properties to influence parasites in the environment.
Project Manager
Jenna Hulke -- Jenna expertly managed the Watering Holes project in Kenya for two years. Although Jenna has been working on identifying wildlife parasites and vectors in the field, she is also interested in public health issues involving parasites.
Field Assistants
John Naisikie Mantas -- John is a field assistant in Kenya who has worked on a wide range of Young lab projects. Aside from being our resident mammal expert, John is a navigational superstar in the field!
Godfrey Amooni -- Godfrey has been an assistant with the Young lab in Kenya for the past 2 years. Godfrey is our resident botanist, and can identify an enormous number of Mpala's grasses and trees to species.
Project Assistants
Alumni
Amanda Orens -- Amanda is a recent Zoology graduate from UCSB interested in Behavioral Ecology. She is helping with camera trap identifications through Zooniverse.
Emme Bartlett -- Emme is an undergraduate student at UCSB studying zoology. She is our social media manager and one of our Zooniverse camera trap identification assistants.
