Month: June 2013

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is on a new mission: to encourage citizen scientists to learn more about the air, water, and resources around them. Earlier this year, the EPA’s Region 2 office announced its newest tool, MyEnvironment. This project provides immediate access to a cross-section of environmental data for any geographical location in the […]

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Categories: Citizen Science, Ecology & Environment

Citizen Science Champions of Change!

Get out the data: making change through citizen science  Non-partisan campaigns to get out the vote occur before every election. It helps remind us of our rights and responsibilities to participate in a democratic society. But we all too often forget that voting is only one of the ways we can contribute to our collective […]

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Categories: Citizen Science

Tickled pink that SciStarter is mentioned in this Family Fun article (also see July 2013 issue on newsstands now). We just love reaching new audiences and broadening the impact of the research projects featured in the SciStarter Project Finder. Be a citizen naturalist. The scientists who study nature need our help! These apps and websites […]

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Categories: Citizen Science, In the News

Summertime—the living’s easy, and citizen science is too! Whether you’re headed to the beach, camping, or simply sitting back and enjoying life in the slower lane this season, we have something for you. With days getting longer, SciStarter encourages you to use this extra time to take a closer look at the world around you. […]

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Categories: Citizen Science

The editors at ExtremeTech scoured projects featured on SciStarter and highlighted their favorites. Are your favorite projects among those featured here? If not, post a comment to let the editors know! If you are looking for a place where you can get involved in science projects, specifically citizen science ones, then SciStarter is the place […]

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Categories: In the News

Smartphone apps for field biologists!

We thought you might enjoy this list of  apps and other resources for field biologists (and citizen scientists!). This list was created by emilio m. bruna and his class at the University of Florida (Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation): http://brunalab.org/apps/

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Categories: Apps

This post originally appeared on Your Wildlife and was reposted with the permission of the author, Holly Menninger. Over the last few weeks, we’ve watched and envied reports and photos coming from those of you living within the emergence zone of Brood II 17-year periodical cicadas (from Georgia to Connecticut). We even traveled westward to […]

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Categories: Climate & Weather, Ecology & Environment, Guest Contributor, Insects, Nature & Outdoors

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