Monitoring and Protecting Trees

Help NASA measure Earth's tree canopy with GLOBE Observer: Trees; sleuth out endangered trees for TreeSnap; learn how cleaner fish support reef ecosystems; and see why NASA is sending cat videos through millions of miles of space. All that and more on this episode of Citizen Science: Stories of Science We Can Do Together!

Projects featured in this episode:

TreeSnap 

GLOBE Observer: Trees 

Enviro Champs 

Genius Dog Challenge 

Reef Life Survey 

Image Credits:

Redwood cover pic via Flickr Creative Commons Public Domain Jeff Balland

Night Trees via Flickr Creative Commons Public Domain Marcos Lomba

Tall Pine, via Flickr Creative Commons Public Domain Alan Levine

Aspen Trees, via Flickr Creative Commons Public Domain Thepixiesdidit

Dragonfly Larva, via Flickr Creative Commons Public Domain Nyffy

Water Strider, via Flickr Creative Commons Public Domain Andrew Hazen

Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse photo Brian Gratwicke via Flickr Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

A Giant Moray Eel (Gymnothorax javanicus) with cleanerfish. North Horn, Osprey Reef, Coral Sea Richard Ling https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

Striped Cleaner Wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) cleaning a Potato Cod (Epinephelus tukula). North Horn, Osprey Reef, Coral Sea Richard Ling https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

A pair of Striped Cleaner Wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus). Fly Point, Port Stephens, NSW Richard Ling https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

Taters Video Footage courtesy NASA/JPL

Reef video footage courtesy José Ricardo Paula

Podcast Theme, by Kevin Hartnell

Additional music, via Free Music Archive:

Jason Shaw, Glitch 

Jangwa, Hurry Hurry 

The Joy Drops, Roll Jordan Roll, Bass Bumper 

The Joy Drops, Roll Jordan Roll, Trumpet Blast 

Gagmesharkoff, The Confluence 

Steve Combs, Pharmacy Party 

Steve Combs, Mess