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1.0 Introduction·What is Team Ecology all about?
·How does Team Ecology work?
·Do I have to join both projects?
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We are a group of BBR members that care about our planet. We have banded together as BBR Team Ecology to help preserve the Earth's natural resources and assist biodiversity research, education and conservation worldwide.
Under the Team Ecology header there is currently one teams operating, namely:
• ClimatePrediction
We did also run the following project(s):
• EcologyFund - Has now moved off-site! (off-site FAQ)
• Lifemapper - Done, no more work available!
Please see their respective sections in this faq for more information.
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by Gargoyle  edited by Starfish
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Our energy is currently focused on two projects, EcologyFund and ClimatePrediction.
As a team, we communicate via the General Distributed Computing forum of BBR. As a member of BBR, we welcome you to come dialog with us in the forum and to join our team.
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by Gargoyle edited by Starfish
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To become a member of BBR Team Ecology you should join either EcologyFund, ClimatePrediction or both! See the FAQ sections below on how to join each project.
We are no longer running the Lifemapper project since all work for this project has been done.
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by Gargoyle edited by Starfish
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2.0 General Information·Does Team Ecology have a forum?
·Recruiting and Posturing outside of the forum
·Where did this FAQ come from?
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Team Ecology uses the General Distributed Computing forum to keep members informed on our projects.
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It is in poor taste to give the appearance of recruiting in other team's forums or websites, please don't do it.
Members who have posting tags or sigs should also be cautious about the way they may be perceived outside of the forum. If in doubt, please use your common sense and alter your tags and sigs to avoid offending those from other teams. This will go a long way toward preserving the sense of community among the many DC teams and forums.
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This FAQ is the combined work of the original Team Ecology FAQ created by Starfish and the Lifemapper FAQ created by Gargoyle. Because of this new version and all the editing, the name of original author may be different than the author that is listed now.
We would like to acknowledge contributions from KeysCapt and Cop for several of the Q&A's.
We hope this new FAQ will serve Team Ecology well. Please submit additional questions you think are valuable to our current and new members.
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by Gargoyle
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3.0 EcologyFund·What is the EcologyFund?
·Why EcologyFund?
·How to click?
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BBR Team Ecology is trying to help save precious nature, by donating small pieces of wilderness every day. We do this by clicking a few 'donation-buttons' on the EcologyFund.com website, a process which takes almost no time...really! (you should be done within a minute or two ... unless you want to learn more about a specific project, news item or one of the sponsors)
Clicking the buttons makes the donation of land possible by viewing some ad banners from the sponsors of the specific project. All money is paid by the sponsors, so being a member is completely free and you can donate to multiple projects every single day! (and once again: it isn't taking a lot of time either!)
 How it works (as written by EcologyFund.com itself)
In this way, Team Ecology is already making quite a difference! Just look at our team's total!
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Why Eco? Certainly a good and valid question!
Team Ecology member MgKnight gave a great answer to this very question once.
Read his thoughts about Team Ecology right here.
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On the EcologyFund website there are various button types, namely those that will add to your personal total and those that will add to the 'general site account'.
The buttons like the ones show in this image are the ONLY ONES that add to your totals.
The other links or buttons on the EcologyFund page add to other worthy projects (like helping to clean the air) but do not add to your total. There is however nothing that stops you from clicking those as well 
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3.1 How do I get started?·How can I join?
·How often can I click?
·Can I run this on multiple machines?
·Where can I find my personal stats?
·How can I post my stats in the GDC forum?
·Where can I find the stats of DSLR Team Ecology?
·Where can I find Team Ecology stats?
·How can I remember to donate every day?
·Current Team Ecology results
·Recommended links for this project
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Joining Team Ecology is actually very simple:
1. The first thing you have to do is to sign up as a member at EcologyFund.com, more specific instructions can be found on this page
2. If you're an EcologyFund member and logged in, all you have to do to join our ever-growing team is the following:
• Visit this page
• Select the 'Clubs and Fans' option in the selectbox and click 'Go'
• Lookup our team name ("DSL Reports Ecology") and click on the "join" standing right after our team name
Lastly you can (if you like it) post a message in the General Distributed Computing forum so that we can give you an official welcome to the team!
If you want to save nature faster, it's also possible to sign up for a paid membership which will increase the amount of nature you'll save daily. There's no obligation of any kind though!
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You can click the group of buttons, once a day. A new day starts at 12:00 P.M. PST.
Of course, you can always follow the other links to "plant a tree", "reduce SO2", "search" and "take action" as well!
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by Gargoyle
last modified: 2003-12-13 08:30:22 |
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The Ecologyfund site is designed so that each user clicks only once per day. This is clearly stated on each page of the site. To do otherwise is cheating, and risks CANCELLATION OF THE ENTIRE TEAM!
(This with the exception that your 'better half' for example, is welcome to help as well with his/her own account but the general rule is: ONE account per user only!)
If you still want to save more: please tell your family and friends to come over!
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You can find your personal stats (when you're logged in) on the EcologyFund.com website, on the left side of the screen.
Depending on the page the stats are on the top left, or just below the standard navigation links of the EcologyFund.com website.
About Stats Updates:
Your personal totals update real time; The site itself updates at 12 midnight EST.
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You can view your stats on the EcologyFund.com website when you're logged in.
If you want to post your statistics in the General Distributed Computing forum, you can select your statistics from the EcologyFund.com website and simply "Copy & Paste" them in a reply.
If you're the first person of the day to post something you can of course also post a new thread, named something like "Wednesday Clicks"
Depending on the actual day of course 
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You can find the team stats just below you're personal stats (see above) or you can
visit this specific page :
DSLR Team Ecology Stats
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Team Ecology stats can be found here. Check out our team ranking as well as individual stats.
If you are a member of BBR Team Ecology - EcologyFund team, you may sign up to add yourself to the stats page.
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by Gargoyle
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1. You can add the EcologyFund shortcut to your desktop, for more information visit this page.
2. Visit the BBR General Distributed Computing forum every day ... almost every day a 'reminder' is posted by one of our members.
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The current Team Ecology results (automatically updates every 15 minutes):
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EcologyFund Overall Group Winners
The Ecological Footprint Calculator
Eco-Friendly Tips
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3.2 I still have questions?·I still have some questions left, where can I find the answers?
·I'm not logged in anymore! Help, my stats are gone!
·I'm listed under name 'X', how can I change it to 'Y' ?
·Who Should I contact if there is a problem with the Ecology Fund Site?
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You can always post a message in the General Distributed Computing Forum. This is the forum where you can ask all your Team EcologyFund related questions.
If you still have very specific questions about EcologyFund.com itself you can also take a look at their own FAQ page.
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This is probably because the so-called "cookie" which is stored on your computer has in some way been deleted.
This "cookie" is used by the Ecologyfund.com website to keep you logged in and to know who you are and what your stats are.
You must do the following to recover your old totals, when the cookie has been deleted:
Sign-up again with exactly the same e-mail address that you used the first time you became an EcologyFund member. You can change your name or any other personal details, just as your e-mail address stays the same!
This way the system will know who you are again, it will log you in and restore your old totals.
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To change your details, you've got to delete the so-called "cookie" which is stored on your computer first.
This "cookie" is used by the Ecologyfund.com website to keep you logged in and to know who you are and what your stats are.
To recover your existing totals and to change your name you've got to do the following:
Sign-up again with exactly the same e-mail address that you used the first time you became an EcologyFund member.
Except for your e-mail address you can change your name or any other personal details, just as long as your e-mail address stays the same!
This way the system will know who you are again, it will log you in (listing you with your new name!) and restore your old totals.
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If there is a problem with the site, please e-mail: webmaster@ecologyfund.com
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by grobinette edited by Gargoyle
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4.0 Lifemapper·What is Lifemapper?
·How will Lifemapper's results be used?
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Per January the 5th of 2005, the Lifemapper Distributed Computing project has been halted:
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Lifemapper was once a Distributed Computing project. We had Members help us out with the CPU-intensive process of computing biological distribution models by downloading our screensaver and doing some number crunching for us. Lifemapper's Members could gather together into Groups. These Groups typically shared common interests and goals. For example, the Kansas Birdwatchers' Group was a fun way for Kansas bird fans to meet each other and help the Lifemapper project.
The Lifemapper project will however continue in a different form and can still be found here:
http://www.lifemapper.org/
The BBR Ecology team computed an amazing number of 451841 models during the time this project was active. For historical reasons, the final standings and statistics can be found right here.
Thanks to everyone who participated! :)
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For biodiversity research, education and conservation worldwide, especially to forecast environmental events and inform public policy with leading-edge science.
The Lifemapper website states that:
•Researchers will be able to model and simulate the spread of emerging diseases, plant and animal pests, or invasive species of plants and animals and their effects on natural resources, agricultural crops and human populations.
•Environmental scientists will be able to model and predict the effects of local, regional or global climate change on Earth's species of plants and animals.
•Land planners and policy-makers will be able to identify the highest priority areas for biodiversity conservation.
•Teachers, students and the public will be able to discover and map their backyard biodiversity and how it might be affected by changes in rainfall or temperature or by the spread of other species.
As an example, the Lifemapper team published a short light paper at the ESRI conference last year, it talks about Lifemapper and other related projects. You can read the paper here.
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5.0 ClimatePrediction·What is the ClimatePrediction project?
·Where can I find the BBR team?
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The aim of climateprediction.net is to investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models (read more about this right here).
By running the model thousands of times (a 'large ensemble') we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations - slight enough to not make the approximations any less realistic.
This will allow us:
• to improve our understanding of how sensitive our models are to small changes and also to things like changes in carbon dioxide and the sulphur cycle.
• to explore how climate may change in the next century under a wide range of different scenarios. In the past estimates of climate change have had to be made using one or, at best, a very small ensemble (tens rather than thousands!) of model runs.
By using your computers, we will be able to improve our understanding of, and confidence in, climate change predictions more than would ever be possible using the supercomputers currently available to scientists.
A very wide range in predicted temperatures for the 21st century.
Source: IPCC Third Assessment Report
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by Starfish
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Our team can be found right here:
BroadbandReports.com Team Ecology
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