With Vigie-Terre, geology becomes accessible to all.
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Launched in June 2020, the Vigie Terre project transforms the French into explorers to reference and safeguard French geological heritage
All you need is a smartphone to participate in this large inventory of fossils, crystals and other curiosities visible on the surface of the rock.
On October 10, Vigie Terre will be presented to the public at the Turfu Festival, the great meeting of participatory sciences, of which
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Eyes wide open, enough to take a picture, and a hand or a hammer for the ladder, it doesn't take much to participate.
But, participate in what?
Initiative of the National Museum of Natural History, Vigie Terre is a participatory inventory project of the French geological heritage.
Since June 2020, novice or experienced geologists can reference the outcrops, crystals, fossils and other curiosities that they come across on their vacation route, or at random on their walks.
In doing so, they contribute to the preservation of geodiversity, because, like everything, stones are not eternal.
A valuable outcrop can be covered or destroyed by construction, for example.
Isabelle Rouget, professor at the National Museum of Natural History, and scientific director of Vigie-Terre, details all the challenges of this cousin program of Vigie Ciel, which searches for meteorites and their craters, always with the help of 70 million curious people in France.
The two projects will be represented at the Turfu Festival, a meeting place for participatory sciences in Caen, free and accessible to all from October 5 to 10.
François Millet, co-organizer of the event, tells us more about this at the end of the program.
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