The Chicago Zooniverse team had a great time celebrating Earth Day with members of the community at the Adler Planetarium and Chicago Botanic Garden.
At the Adler Planetarium’s EarthFest celebration on Saturday, April 13, guests were able to participate in an in-real-life version of Floating Forests, tracing areas of kelp from a satellite image onto tracing paper to see how a consensus result might be reached in the online version. Online at https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/floating-forests, you’ll be able to do this same activity, helping researchers learn how Giant Kelp forests change over time.
Tracing Giant Kelp forests at the Adler’s Earth Fest celebration 
Learning about Zooniverse during Adler’s Earth Fest celebration
The next day at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s UnEarth Science Festival, visitors learned about the parts of a plant though a matching activity that segued into Rainforest Flowers, a Zooniverse project helping researchers at the Field Museum in Chicago to create a database of images of plants from the tropical forests of Central and South America.
Sharing Zooniverse at Chicago Botanic Garden’s UnEarth Science Festival 
Learning about parts of a plant 
Talking to visitors about volunteer opportunities 
Sharing the Zooniverse app, suitable for all ages
We love meeting the community! If you missed us this time, keep your eye on this blog for our next event.
