Month: August 2019

Project MartinRoost: A Scavenger Hunt in Your Backyard

This post is part of a collaboration between SciStarter and Career in STEM, in which writers spotlight different citizen science projects, interview project leaders about their careers, and create educational content for teachers and students. This series is available on the Science Connected, Career in STEM, SciStarter, and Discover Magazine blog platforms.  Click to jump […]

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Categories: Birds, Citizen Science, EarthSchool, Project Profile

SciStarter Affiliate Tools

SciStarter provides free tools to benefit citizen science project coordinators, participants, organizations, and researchers. Three of these tools are 1) the Participation API, 2) the SciStarter Login System, and 3) the Project Finder Widget. Projects that use the Participant API or the Volunteer Sign Up tools (or both!) are called SciStarter Affiliates, and they are […]

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Categories: Affiliate Tools, API, Tools

Human Impact: Climate Change and Citizen Science

This blog post is an edited excerpt from Human Impact, a new publication from Science Connected. Edited by Kate Stone and Shayna Keyles, Human Impact delivers 17 true tales of how humanity has changed the Earth, for better or for worse. This chapter appears in Human Impact as “Act Now: Engaging in Citizen Science,” and includes contributions […]

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Categories: Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, Environment

Wicked Hot Boston: Urban Heat Island (UHI) Mapping

Want to map extreme heat in your community? Anyone, anywhere can take action with ISeeChange. It’s not just in your head; Boston really is hotter in the summer. When urban areas are warmer than surrounding non-urban environments, we experience a phenomenon called the urban heat island (UHI) effect.  Cities are filled with large amounts of […]

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Categories: Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, Events, Nature & Outdoors, Project Profile, Science Policy, Science Practices

Year in Citizen Science: August Calendar

SciStarter maintains a “Year in Citizen Science” Google Calendar.  You can learn more and access the full Google Calendar at SciStarter.org/Calendar. Happy August!

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Categories: Calendar
dust storms

Today, August 6, GLOBE Observer invites you to join them at 11MT/1ET for a webinar. Do you live in an area that experiences dust storms? The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment Program (GLOBE) team would like you to photograph dust events in your area and submit your photos using the GLOBE Observer […]

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Categories: Citizen Science, Environment, Nature & Outdoors

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