Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Ian Vorster, Mar 31, 2015
Interested in more spring themed citizen science projects? Check out the ones the SciStarter team has handpicked for you here! Or use SciStarter’s project finder to find one that piques your curiosity! In 1998 Tim Sparks, a research biologist at Britain’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Cambridge started a pilot project designed to record … Read more “Is Climate Change Causing the Seasons to Change? Citizen Scientists in the UK Help Find Out with Nature’s Calendar”
Categories: Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors
By Arvind Suresh, Mar 30, 2015
This guest post by Sharman Apt Russel describes a citizen science experience with the the project, Nature’s Notebook featured on our recent Spring themed newsletter. Check out the rest of the projects on that list here. Nature’s Notebook is also one of more than 800 citizen science projects on SciStarter. Use our project finder to find … Read more “Nature’s Notebook: Through the Eyes of a Citizen Scientist”
Categories: Animals, Citizen Science, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors
By Eva Lewandowski, Mar 25, 2015
Here are six projects in need of your help as you walk the dog, work in your garden, clean the gutters, or do spring cleaning. And check out these new citizen science projects just added to the Project Finder on SciStarter. Cheers! The SciStarter Team
Categories: Animals, Birds, Citizen Science, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors
By Arvind Suresh, Mar 23, 2015
“Citizen Science” movement gaining ground through organizations including SciStarter PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (March 23, 2015) – Citizen science engages the public in important research, and SciStarter is leading the way for scientists, enthusiasts and students to connect and collaborate on research. Even as President Obama recognizes the intelligence and effort of students at the White … Read more “White House Recognizes Importance of Citizen Science”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Ian Vorster, Mar 22, 2015
It was a crisp morning following a cold night in Goleta’s Coronado Monarch Butterfly Preserve. As Luke crossed a beam that had been dropped across a swampy area, he looked up at the Eucalyptus grove and sighed quietly. “Where are the butterflies Dad,” he asked me—with one part expectation and one part disappointment.
Categories: Animals, Citizen Science, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors
By Darlene Cavalier, Mar 20, 2015
As part of SciStarter’s regular radio series with WHYY’s The Pulse, we highlight new developments in citizen science and a few projects ripe for spring! As the weather starts warming up and we all begin shedding our thick, winter coats, a crop of new citizen science projects are enticing us to get outdoors in the name … Read more ““What’s in store for citizen scientists this spring,” WHYY’s The Pulse”
Categories: Animals, Apps, Biology, Climate & Weather, Ecology & Environment, Events
By Carolyn Graybeal,
Have you ever tried tracing back your family tree only to get stuck at great great Grandpa Jim? Are you curious about who your ancestors were and where they might have come from? If so, you’ll definitely want to check out National Geographic’s The Genographic Project. Not only will you learn about your lineage but … Read more “Finding our origins: The Genographic Project uses genetics to map the past”
Categories: Biology, Citizen Science
By Arvind Suresh, Mar 18, 2015
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Dr Robert H. Cichewicz. Director of the University of Oklahoma, Institute for Natural Products Applications and Research Technologies (INPART). Dr Cichewicz leads the Citizen Science Soil Collection Program which is focused on translating natural products into therapeutic leads to combat cancer, infectious diseases, and other unmet medical needs. Visit the project page … Read more “The Next Big Drug Discovery Could Come From a Scoop of Soil in Your Backyard”
Categories: Citizen Science, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors
By Ariel Simons, Mar 16, 2015
Editor’s Note: This is a two-part post, a version of which first appeared on the author’s blog. Drive through the United States, and one thing you will notice is a high degree of repetition in the scenery. Highways cross through large fields of near-identical corn and soy crops, punctuated by towns containing a similarly small set … Read more “Are Food Deserts also Food Monocultures? Proposing a Citizen Science Project in Urban Ecology”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Arvind Suresh, Mar 09, 2015
We think migration is one of the most astounding phenomena in the animal world. Creatures large and small travel hundreds, even thousands of miles along the same routes every year, to the amazement of us human observers. Here are five migration projects that study migratory wildlife and are in need of your observations. Cheers! The … Read more “Spring Forward and Track Migrations for Citizen Science”
Categories: Citizen Science
