Announcing WUNDERPIX

[mucktopus]

I'd like to announce a new database of Wunderpus photogenicus pictures: Wunderpix:

http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/Wunderpix.html

What is the point of this database? In a new paper out in the open access journal PLoSOne (free to download- i'll post the paper here tomorrow) we show that Wunderpus have individually unique spot patterns. This means we can monitor Wunderpus in the wild using photographs, the same way people do for whales, etc. We hope that people will upload their pics of Wunderpus and related data (site, time, depth) into this database so we can start to estimate their home ranges, population density, and movement patterns. Please check it out!

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%...l.pone.0003732

 

[GreshamH]

Nice site. I especially like the paper posted on there

Being your up for postdoc I doubt your Christina or Roy, what's your connection?

 

[Samala]

Very very cool. I like that the database allows for public submissions.

>Sarah

 

[mucktopus]

Oh- looks like I haven't updated that profile since I joined. I'm about to finish that post doc position in Dec.

I also like that divers can check the site to see if anyone else has uploaded pics of the same individual. Here's hoping it catches on and lots of photographers submit.

take care,
Crissy

 

[jtrasap]

Awesome site, thanks for the link...