High-Level Project Summary
Global warming has been a big issue, it has led to multiple problems including irregular bird migration. We believe that there is an important link between irregular bird migration patterns and the increasing temperatures and/or other factors of our Earth. In response to that, we developed an app that organizes the information of the bird locations and other airborne data of certain regions. As time passes, the app shows the audience the migration of birds as well as the change of other factors. This app allows people to view the effects more clearly, thus, spreading a cry for help from animals, allowing more awareness of global warming.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Our project compared the air and soil temperature, CO2 and CH4 Flux data to bird location over time. The blue markers on the map represent the stations and their location, if clicked, the recorded temperature and amount of CO2 is shown. The colorful circle markers represent bird locations, the species can be identified by clicking on the marker. Changing the month (time) displays data from different times. This organization of data allows more efficient observation as all the information is in the same place. We hope that this app allows people to see the changes in temperature and other factors and migration patterns over time and use it as a way to increase awareness of this dire global problem.
Space Agency Data
In this project, we use dataset from Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE).
We mainly use the data related to air/soil temperature and CO2 and CH4 flux.
Since we are researching bird migration, and the bird migration route data is from year 2008-2012, we tried to align the migration route data with NASA airborne data.
The alignment between bird migration route and NASA airborne data is not good enough. Not only the time scale is different but also the GPS location distance. However, we show a prototype that demonstrate the tool we intended to build for scientists and also the general public.
Hackathon Journey
Learned:
- Time management and planning is important
- Migratory birds are affected by temperature
- There is a lot of things that you want to do, but it isn’t possible to do everything
Approach
- Visualizing data then finding effects of it
- Find effect data, tried to visualize it
- Finally put both data together
Challenge
- Time
- Little data
thank / appreciation
- Everyone on the team for their hard work
References
* https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4347125
* https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-54228-5
* https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1562
* https://alaska.usgs.gov/products/data/tracking/tracking.php?groupid=1
Tags
#birds #animals