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California residents use smartphones and drones to help scientists document El Nio's impact on coastline
2016-01-24 15:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Register: Forget about selfies. In California, residents are using smartphones and drones to document the coastline's changing face. Starting this month, The Nature Conservancy is asking tech junkies to capture the flooding and coastal erosion that come with El Nio, a weather pattern that's bringing California its wettest winter in years -- and all in the name of science. The idea is that crowd-sourced, geotagged images of storm surges and flooded beaches will give scientists a brief window into what...
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