Project Noah is an online community dedicated to explore and document wildlife across the globe. "Noah" is an acronym for "networked organisms and habitats". This community formerly had an

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app in iTunes and an Android app in

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, but is now web only. Project Noah aims to become a common mobile platform for documenting the world's organisms. Beyond documentation, the iPhone app offers users an opportunity to participate in ongoing

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research projects by tagging contributions into specific field missions and can be used as a location-based

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as well. All contributors are connected with an online community. The project's co-founder, Yasser Ansari, believes that "not only is there an educational need and an environmental need but a deep, deep human need for all of us to reconnect with our planet." Project Noah has won several awards. Currently, Project Noah has contributors from over 55 countries participating in a variety of missions ranging from documenting the impact of the Gulf Coast

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to sharing ladybug and squirrel sightings for ongoing research at major universities. They're a project of condor.org. The project has featured by several news sources including

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, Brian Lehrer TV, ''New York Times'', ''Slate'',

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, ''Make'' Magazine,

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, Council for the Internet of Things, IBM's Smarter Planet and GOOD.

References

External links

http://projectnoah.org

http://networkedorganisms.com

https://twitter.com/projectnoah
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