NOAA Fisheries and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Launches Crowdsourcing Challenge “Where’s Whale-do?” to Track Endangered Beluga Whales

NOAA Fisheries and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced that they have teamed up with DrivenData and HeroX, in collaboration with Wild Me and NASA, to launch the crowdsourcing competition, Where's Whale-do?, to help NOAA Fisheries researchers accurately identify endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales from photographic images. Participants are competing for a prize purse of $35,000. Measuring up to 15 feet and 3,500 [...]