I thought this was
really great! Facebook can be utilized in countless ways that most of us
wouldn't even think of.
Early last year,
ichthyologist Brian Sidlauskas led an expedition to a little studied river in
Guyana, South America to catalogue biodiversity.
Guyana's customs laws state that to take specimens out of the
country, each must be documented and identified - a rather daunting task,
considering they were on a tight schedule and were hoping to bring back more
than 5,000 fish, some of which might not even be known to science yet.
To speed up the process,
Sidlauskas uploaded all his photographs to Facebook and tagged researchers from
around the world who he thought might be able to help identify the fish. Using
social media in this way, they were able to identify all 5,000 specimens within
24 hours.
http://vimeo.com/48909830
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