A group called Nerds for Nature is using Twitter and Instagram to track fire recovery around the summit of Mount Diablo in northern California.
Cool use of twitter pic.twitter.com/5oYB9tPkz6
— Sergei Krupenin (@krupenin) May 18, 2014
Stations like this placed along trails allow hikers to snap hashtagged photos which then become data for scientists to use in monitoring the local environment
Ask passersby to snap pix, accumulate longitudinal data “@krupenin: Cool use of twitter pic.twitter.com/UUeyPt34Wh”
— Paul W Sas (@hormetic) May 18, 2014
. @krupenin @SabineFutura that *is* really cool. Great idea.
— edythe (@e_dythe) May 18, 2014
The power of Twitter. Oh the possibilities…just dream. “@krupenin: Cool use of twitter pic.twitter.com/27R39MXEV0”
— Iman Hallam (@ImanHallam) May 18, 2014
Social media. Is there nothing it can’t do?