Explore the Sea Floor
This is a fun way you can help scientists. Over at Explore the Sea Floor, scientists have created a website that allows anyone to help them identify Sea Urchins and Kelp around Australia.
You simply log in, decide whether you want to identify sea urchins or kelp, learn what they look like, then use your mouse to click and identify them.
The photos have been taken by an AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle). This innovative technology can take thousands of overlapping photos at a time. Does this mean we might have a picture of the sea floor in t he future? Its a possibility, but for right now, this robot has taken thousands of photographs and the scientists here need your help identifying sea urchins and kelp. Try it.