Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Jenna Lang, Mar 12, 2014
They’re all around us–microbes, that is! Think of them as the neighbors you’ll never really meet. Here are some projects to help you explore the microbiome on earth, in space, and inside our own bodies. Project MERCCURI It’s time! Microbes collected by citizen scientists are heading to the International Space Station this weekend! This project … Read more “Meet Your Invisible Neighbors: Microbes in SPAAACE (and at home)!”
Categories: Biology, Citizen Science, Health, Newsletter
By Lily Bui, Mar 07, 2014
This is a citizen science webinar opportunity from CitSci.org. Greetings from CitSci.org! Please join us for our sixth “Feature Friday” webinar. These webinars invite you to offer your ideas and thoughts about improvements to CitSci.org. The first Friday of each month these webinars will focus on a specific topic / feature of CitSci.org. We will demonstrate how to … Read more “CitSci.org “Feature Friday” Webinar on 3/7/14: Viewing Data: Observation list and Map”
Categories: Citizen Science, Events
By Lily Bui,
This week on The Pulse and SciStarter’s segment about citizen science, producer Kimberly Haas takes a look at Zooniverse’s Old Weather, a project that dives into weather’s past in order to study our climate’s future. Old Weather is a Zooniverse project that dives into historical archives of weather observations. Citizen scientists can browse through online archival data of … Read more “Citizen Science on the Radio: WHYY features Old Weather from Zooniverse”
Categories: Citizen Science, Climate & Weather
By Karen McDonald, Mar 06, 2014
Citizen Science in the Classroom and the Phytoplankton Monitoring Network NOAA National Ocean Service Phytoplankton Monitoring Network Citizen Science Project to Meet Common Core and Next Generation Teaching Standards Grades: 1st-12th (*see notes below about elementary grades) Description: The Phytoplankton Monitoring Network (PMN) is hosted through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). … Read more “Citizen Science in the Classroom Series: Phytoplankton Monitoring Network”
Categories: Analyzing and interpreting data, Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering), Citizen Science, Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering), Developing and using models, Engaging in argument from evidence, Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information, Ocean & Water, Planning and carrying out investigations, Science Practices, Using mathematics and computational thinking
By Sheetal R. Modi, Mar 05, 2014
Count and protect migrating amphibians. Help salamanders cross the road at night with the Salamander Crossing Brigades. Citizen science after hours…here are some citizen science projects you can do at night. Springtime means that love is in the air. Bees are buzzing, birds are chirping, animals are mating–and salamanders want to do it too. That is, if … Read more “Why Did the Salamander Cross the Road?”
Categories: Animals, Biology, Citizen Science, Events, Nature & Outdoors
By Angus Chen, Mar 03, 2014
Monitor the rates and sizes of meteoroids striking the moon with the Lunar Impact Monitoring project. Citizen science after hours…here are some citizen science projects you can do at night. By now you’ve probably seen Gravity, and maybe you figured real astronauts don’t have to worry about projectiles, flying debris, or explosions. After all, the stars … Read more “Getting flashed by the Moon?”
Categories: Astronomy & Space, Citizen Science, Geology & Earth Sciences
By Lily Bui,
[View the story “Project MERCCURI and #SpaceMicrobes selfies from #scio14!” on Storify]
Categories: Biology, Events
