CycloneCenter Participation for April 2014

This month, we are naming the monthly award for the top classifier as the “Baja award” in honor of our consistent participant baha23 and retiring the name in recognition of the consistent contribution to the project from the monthly stat board (so that others can also be recognized for their effort). Likewise, the overall project activity list is now the “Bretarn board” in honor of our longtime contributor, bretarn (who also was our 300,000th classification).

Question of the Month: What is the best time to classify storms? Do you classify during your downtime? Answer in the comments below.

For March 2014, we had 7,964 classifications of 364 storms from 254 citizen scientists.

Top 10 most active citizen scientists for April 2014.

Classifications	Scientist
3386	baha23
611	peterthorne
576	bretarn
483	Atms345_kdg
464	skl6284
228	tdw1203
180	TheNerd
141	shocko61
131	WIDEnet
79	andrewlania

Baja Award: Most active citizen scientists each month.

Month	Number	User
Sep 2012	658	atomic7732
Oct 2012	3667	chrisotahal
Nov 2012	3276	bretarn
Dec 2012	2747	bretarn
Jan 2013	2555	shocko61
Feb 2013	1714	shocko61
Mar 2013	1998	bretarn
Apr 2013	1474	ATMS103LGB
May 2013	1451	astroboyOW
Jun 2013	1084	bretarn
Jul 2013	976	Geeklette
Aug 2013	1051	skl6284
Sep 2013	431	tdw1203
Oct 2013	2733	baha23
Nov 2013	3737	baha23
Dec 2013	500	Atms345_ssc
Jan 2014	3064	baha23
Feb 2014	3455	baha23
Mar 2014	4610	baha23
Apr 2014	611	peterthorne

The Bretarn Board: Most active citizen scientists overall.

Classifications	Scientist
22,582	bretarn
21,907	baha23
10,690	shocko61
5006	astroboyOW
4544	peterthorne
3988	chrisotahal
3471	cch001
3172	tpatch
3030	skl6284
2711	velthove

Postscript

Did you notice that peterthorne moved up a spot on the all time list. It turns out that work travel is a great time to classify storms. So why not use Airport wifi to classify storms while waiting in the airport??

Also, what do you think of the Baja award?