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Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
Whenever, wherever, you and citizen science are meant to be together
By Eva Lewandowski, Oct 13, 2016
If you can see this, you can advance scientific research right now!
Below, our editors highlight five, digital citizen science projects you can do online now! Find more with the Scistarter Project Finder.
Cheers!
The SciStarter Team
Floating Forests
Kelp forests are important underwater ecosystems and home to many species. With this project, you will identify kelp in photographs, which will help researchers understand how kelp forests change over time.
Did you know that the human eye is sometimes better at recognizing patterns than computers? That’s why your help is needed to analyze still unknown patterns in images of tropical cyclones.
Pulsars, or spinning neutron stars, send out gravitational waves that can be used to identify and locate them. You can help find them by contributing processing time from your phone or computer whenever it’s idle.
Quantum computing is the technology of the future, and you can help bring it about. Just solve puzzles on your computer or smartphone; the methods you use will contribute to reducing errors in quantum computers.
SciStarter is looking for citizen scientists and project owners to test the new look and features of the site as part of our 2.0 release. Please email Catherine (catherine@scistarter.com) if you’re interested.
Looking for a citizen science event near you? Want to share your event with others? Check out the Scistarter Events Page.
Eva Lewandowski is the Citizen-based Monitoring Coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, where she coordinates a statewide citizen science network. She has a PhD in Conservation Biology from the University of Minnesota and is an active volunteer.
