Alaska sea lion study gets help from crowdsource volunteers

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers who are studying the decline of Steller sea lions in Alaska have turned to a new venue for assistance.
The NOAA Fisheries scientists are using crowdsourcing volunteers to help study why the population of sea lions in the Aleutian Islands has not recovered.
The researchers use 20 remote cameras at six locations to record the presence sea lions.
Biologist Katie Sweeney says the cameras produce hundreds of thousands of images that must be