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Congratulations are due to the research team behind Angling for Data on Michigan Fishes, who have a new publication out in Nature: Community science helps digitize 78 years of fish and habitat data for thousands of lakes in Michigan, USA. Thanks especially to the 3,000+ Zooniverse volunteers who contributed more than 450,000 classifications to this project between March of 2021 and August of 2023.

The full project dataset is also available via University of Michigan Library’s Deep Blue Data portal: Collections, Heterogeneous data, and Next Generation Ecological Studies (CHANGES) – Michigan Lake Surveys.

Click the links above to read the paper in full or explore the dataset. You can also read more about the project and the published results in this article from the Detroit Free Press, “Decades of Michigan lake data, hidden in filing cabinets, digitized with volunteer help.“

As of publishing this post, all articles linked above are free to access, without login.