Month: December 2012

Top 12 Citizen Science Projects of 2012

The year’s 12 most visited projects in the SciStarter Project Finder, a growing collection of more than 500 new and existing citizen science opportunities.

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Categories: Citizen Science

Tis the season for citizen science

‘Tis the season for citizen science! (Then again, it’s always the season for citizen science.) This December, SciStarter wraps up 12 different citizen science projects especially for you.

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Categories: Citizen Science

Christmas Bird Count takes flight

See that partridge in a pear tree? Make sure you count it for Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count, one of the largest and longest running citizen science projects in existence today. It’s a 112 year tradition, with upwards of 60,000 person-days of effort and more than 60 million birds counted each year. “Each of the citizen […]

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Categories: Animals, Biology, Birds, Ecology & Environment

Earlier today, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosted “E.O. Wilson’s Global Town Hall,” with biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard. In anticipation of this exciting event, the museum revamped its Citizen Science Center and added new features. “I am especially pleased that we now offer a SciStarter kiosk in […]

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Categories: Citizen Science, Education

What’s the Score?

The hills are alive with the sound of citizen science (and music)! Calling all music enthusiasts–the Bodleian Libraries are enlisting the help of the public in order to improve access to their music collections. About sixty-four boxes filled with unbound, uncatalogued sheet music from the mid-Victorian period has been digitized for public access. Although this […]

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Categories: Archeology, Citizen Science, Computers & Technology, Do-It-Yourself, libraries

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