E-I-E-I-O No!

E-I-E-I-O No! asks volunteers to inspect aerial images of eastern North Carolina and mark signs of large poultry and swine facilities. The work is deliberately plain and practical: many small classifications are intended to make an industrial footprint easier for nearby communities to see.

What is E-I-E-I-O No!?

From above, industrial animal agriculture can look less like a farm than a repeating geometry of long buildings, service roads, and treatment infrastructure. This project breaks a large mapping problem into image-sized decisions that volunteers can help make. The current Zooniverse queues separate general facility identification from lagoon and biogas features, and their availability changes as enough people review each subject. The larger goal belongs to a coalition led by the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network: compile a more transparent picture of where these operations sit across eastern North Carolina and return useful location data to the communities around them.

What you can do there

• Inspect aerial images of eastern North Carolina
• Classify industrial animal-facility features

Why we picked it

The contribution is concrete, place-specific, and refreshingly unspectacular. You are not asked to solve environmental policy in one click; you are asked to look carefully at one patch of land. That restraint makes the project persuasive. The aerial-image task gives remote sensing a civic purpose without pretending that a single volunteer classification is a verified conclusion.

How to get the most from it

Read the project guidance before making your first classification, then scan the whole image instead of locking onto the first rectangular roof. Compare uncertain features with the provided examples and choose uncertainty over a confident guess. If the general identification queue is finished, check whether the lagoon and biogas workflow still has subjects available.

Good to know

The page warns that the images show large enclosed animal facilities from above, not individual animals. Workflow availability and progress figures are live, and the aggregate counters were not internally consistent during this check. The classification interface, account behavior, privacy, accessibility, device support, and final data-publication process were not tested without an approved isolated browser.

Who made it, and when?

North Carolina Environmental Justice Network is the credited creator or organization. The earliest supported launch date we found is July 28, 2026.