Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Lily Bui, Jun 12, 2012
While you may know her as the founder of our beloved SciStarter, Darlene Cavalier also spearheads a unique organization called Science Cheerleader, a sister site that promotes science literacy, citizen science, and science policy with the help of scientists and engineers who just happen to be current and former NFL and NBA cheerleaders! Darlene was … Read more “The Citizen Science Movement: Just Add Cheerleaders”
Categories: Citizen Science, Science Education Standards
By Nick Fordes, Jun 11, 2012
By Nick Fordes Recently, SciStarter added a project called Petridish, where citizens have a chance to contribute to innovative research in a unique way. Petridish is set up like Kickstarter and several other funding platforms. Users can browse a number of current projects, learn about the research objectives, and then donate at various levels. The really … Read more “Petridish.org lets you join forces with world-renowned researchers”
Categories: Nature & Outdoors
By Darlene Cavalier, Jun 06, 2012
Have an idea for a wearable or smartphone sensor to help monitor and report air quality information? This just in….new contest presented by Innocentive, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Health and Human Service: My Air, My Health: An HHS/EPA Challenge This is a Theoretical Challenge that requires only a written proposal … Read more “Propose ideas for citizen science sensor to report air quality (win $100,000!).”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Lily Bui, Jun 03, 2012
By now, you’ve most likely heard the buzz about the Transit of Venus, occurring Tuesday, June 5, 2012. This cosmic event is worthy of all the attention it has received this week – after all, it only happens every 105.5 or 121.5 years. During the transit, the shadow of Venus will be visible against the … Read more “The Transit of Venus: Coming to a Sky Near You!”
Categories: Astronomy & Space, Citizen Science
By Darlene Cavalier, May 25, 2012
SciStarter is a proud founding partner of Expert & Citizen Assessment of Science & Technology (ECAST), a network that cordially invites you to the USA launch of the World Wide Views on Biodiversity project: A distributed, agile, collaborative, and non-partisan 21st century approach that integrates citizen participation, deliberation, expertise, and assessment into government policy making, … Read more “Expert & Citizens Assessment of Science & Technology, for citizen scientists.”
Categories: Citizen Science, Science Policy
By Darlene Cavalier, May 17, 2012
As part of our ongoing series, “Citizen Science Test Drive,” first-person reviews of citizen science apps, platforms, tools and projects, we present a guest post from Hal Hodson, a science and technology journalist, based in London, UK. There’s a misconception about astronomy, and it’s to do with the telescopes. Tell someone that you’ve got a … Read more “Citizen Science Test Drive: Flex your inner-astronomer’s muscle with Zooniverse”
Categories: Citizen Science
By John Ohab, May 15, 2012
By Nick Fordes 2,083 citizens and scientists representing 111 different organizations collaborating on 71 challenges to produce over 100 innovative solutions to issues at home on earth and in space! Wow! Citizen science was really in full gear during last month’s International Space App Challenge. The NASA-lead project was a huge success and created a … Read more “Last chance to vote in the International Space Apps Challenge!”
Categories: Apps, Computers & Technology
By Darlene Cavalier, May 07, 2012
This is a guest blog post from Jennifer Fee, K-12 Programs Manager, at Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Calling all educators: if you’ve participated in citizen science projects, we need your ideas for a book we are writing! Citizen science is different from the traditional ‘cookbook’ approach to science education, and we’d like to know how … Read more “Calling educators! Submit your favorite citizen science lessons by May 15.”
Categories: Science Education Standards
By Darlene Cavalier, May 03, 2012
RESTON, Va. — Thanks to citizen-scientists around the country, the USA National Phenology Network hit a major milestone this week by reaching its one millionth nature observation. The millionth observation was done by Lucille Tower, a citizen-scientist in Portland, Ore., who entered a record about seeing maple vines flowering. Her data, like all of the … Read more ““Citizens Have Contributed One Million Observations to Top Nature Database.””
Categories: Citizen Science, Guest Contributor
By Darlene Cavalier, Apr 23, 2012
goal: Help seismologists detect and warn of earthquakes. task: Do a 1 minute cheer with your class and measure the shaking of your classroom. Join the Big Cheer for Science and Engineering on April 27, 2012 at 1:30 pm ET, presented by SciStarter, Science Cheerleader, the USGS, the Iris Consortium, Discover Magazine and the USA … Read more “Teachers: here’s a great citizen science project taking place 4/27 ,1:30 pm ET!”
Categories: Geology & Earth Sciences, Science Education Standards
