Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Emily Lewis, Aug 28, 2013
Do you have an idea about how to approach climate change? You’re not alone. Thousands of other people around the world are coming up with potential solutions to one of the world’s most challenging problems, but until now they have not been able to easily connect. MIT’s Climate CoLab is attempting to change this by bringing … Read more “Stop, Collaborate and…Vote! Help solve climate change with MIT’s Climate CoLab Project”
Categories: Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, Contest
By Lily Bui, Aug 26, 2013
This project is featured in our Back to School 2013 round-up. Imagine what it would mean if our knowledge about the many life forms on Earth – of animals, plants, fungi, protists, and bacteria – could be gathered together and made available to everyone – anywhere – at a moment’s notice. Currently, this information is … Read more “Browse the Encyclopedia of Life”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Melinda T. Hough, Aug 23, 2013
This project is part of our Back to School 2013 round-up of projects. Read more about them! Breast cancer is the single most common cancer in women worldwide with roughly 1 in 8 women developing the disease each year. Chances are, a friend or family member is coping with this diagnosis right now. Following Angelina … Read more “Cancer Research in the Classroom – Accelerating Cures with the Click of a Mouse”
Categories: Biology, Citizen Science, Health, Science Education Standards
By Alex Reis, Aug 21, 2013
This project is part of our Back to School 2013 round-up of projects. Read more about them! Calling all citizen scientists! It doesn’t matter where you are. You can still be an ‘honorary’ diver to help with this project. The idea is simply to look at seafloor photos on your computer and catalogue what you … Read more “Visit the bottom of the ocean…without getting wet!”
Categories: Animals, Citizen Science, Nature & Outdoors, Ocean & Water
By Jenna Lang, Aug 20, 2013
SciStarter goes back to school! Our Project Finder is full of citizen science projects perfect for the classroom. Many include additional teaching materials. We highlight 10 here that can be used in the classroom, as homework assignments, or as after school family activities across a variety of subjects and age groups. Project Budburst Participating in Project BudBurst, … Read more “We’re Taking Citizen Science Back to School!”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Arvind Suresh, Aug 19, 2013
This is one bait you should take. What possibilities could you think of to use a super strong ‘molecular’ hook? That’s what the inventors of Super-Biotin are asking you. This challenge appears on Marblar, a startup that “crowdsources market applications for emerging and existing technologies” as Mr Daniel Bayley, project organizer and part of the … Read more “Hook, Line and Sinker! Marblar’s Super-Biotin Project”
Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Citizen Science
By Darlene Cavalier, Aug 15, 2013
This piece was originally posted on Science Cheerleader. Project Update: Project MERCCURI is a collaboration of the UC Davis microBEnet with the Science Cheerleaders, UC Davis, Space Florida, Nanoracks, and SciStarter. There are three components to this research project: 1) Space Station Microbiome. Collecting microbial swab samples from the International Space Station (ISS) and examining the … Read more “Project MERCCURI citizen science update”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Lily Bui, Aug 10, 2013
The first time I ever saw the Perseids, I was 15 years old. I snuck out of the house in the middle of the night (without telling my parents, of course) and found the darkest spot at the park nearby. What followed was one of the most awesome sights I had witnessed up until then: … Read more “Proceed to the Perseids with NASA’s Meteor Counter”
Categories: Apps, Astronomy & Space, Citizen Science
By Melinda T. Hough, Aug 09, 2013
In the height of summer sunbathing, seaside shark sightings universally evoke childhood memories of Jaws, quickly followed by shouts of “Get out of the water!” Yet, fewer than 5 people a year (worldwide) die in shark attacks. Commercial fishing practices and by-catch look set to drive their extinction. Can scientists help save these vital predators? … Read more “Collecting Mermaid’s Purses at the British Seaside”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Darlene Cavalier, Aug 08, 2013
It’s not always easy for citizen scientists to see what happens with the data they collect. Not all projects are published, and those that are may not be open access and often only include a summary of the findings. I work at F1000Research, and one of the key points of this open access journal … Read more “Publish your citizen science data, transparently, with F1000Research”
Categories: Citizen Science, Guest Contributor
