How it works - wildbook sevengill shark

It's one of the projects i am working on. It's about broadnose sevengill sharks (Notorynchus cepedianus) in USA and South Africa. I found that it will be a good idea to record what i am doing and explain better how Ocean Sanctuaries (https://oceansanctuaries.org/) with the wildbook (http://www.wildbook.org/) is helping on Shark Conservation. _____________________________ The position i have is Pattern Recognition Expert on Sevengill Shark Identification. But before i explain further what i am doing (the mark spotting, fixing the gender, and mark them as new individuals or match them with other same individuals), i have to say that it's an easy job if you know what to do. And i am enjoying this because i already know because i have used I3S software before for the identification of individuals of Sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) in South Africa. Now are the steps you can see in the video: 1. First of all, I have to log in with my credentials. 2. I am doing it by an area, so in this video, you see that i am looking for "San Diego" encounters. 3. I am checking what was the last "alternative Id" i have put, so, i can continue from where i stopped last time. 4. Then i am re-arranging the date because i have started from the oldest encounters and i continue to the newest encounters. 5. When i find where i stopped, i am entering the next in the row encounter. 6. I am adding the "alternative ID" so i won't forget what was the previous. 7. I am fixing the name and gender (if necessary). 8. If it has more than one photo of the same view (i.e. left), i find the better photo and i press the lines icon on the bottom-right of the photo and then i press the "Spot marking". (Here if an encounter has both sides i must do "Spot marking" on both sides before i do step 16) 9. When spot marking page has been loaded, i select the region (which is the head), if it needs i am turning the photo so it can be as horizontal as can be the head. 10. Then i am choosing the top of the 1st gill, the top of the eye, the lower corner of the nostril and the lower corner of the mouth. 11. After choosing all these, i must start to mark the spots (the black ones). I try to mark the bigger spots, or the spots which give like a sign (for example three dots in the row, or making symbols like a cross, etc), or big patches. 12. Then i press "Save" and "Start ScanTask". 13. In the page it is showing, i have to remember the number of the encounter (or write it down) and "Go to sharkGrid". 14. In "sharkGrid" i have to view the encounter and check the patterns if they match with other encounters in the same date or a different date. 15. I have to check both "Modified Groth" and "I3S". 16. If it's not matched with another encounter, i am returning back to encounter page and i am going to edit the "Identity" and create a new "Unmatched first encounter" and "Create Marked individual" with the code of the area (example: for San Diego Coastline i use SDC), the date of the encounter (example: 2013), and four-digit number (i use the four-digit number of the alternate id, example: 0045). So the final encounter ID will be like this: SDC2013-0045. 17. Now if i find another matched encounter, i open the other encounter on a different tab on my browser and check the date. If it's older than this encounter i did "Mark spotting" now, i am copying the "Marked individual number" of the oldest and then i am going to this encounter i just did "Mark spotting" and edit the "Identity" box and put the "Marked individual number" of the oldest. Then i choose if it was "Pattern Match" or "Visual Inspection" and i save it. 18. I am reloading the page, to be sure that the "Marked Individually number" is shown and i am pressing it to see if all the recorded encounters are shown inside. 19. That's it. Then i continue to the next encounter. _____________________________ I love helping with shark conservation projects. And i can't wait to see the results when i finish with the database.