Month: February 2021

More than 100 years ago, Harvard astronomer Edward Charles Pickering decided he was going to take a picture of the entire night sky. Or, rather, many thousands of pictures, each capturing a tiny rectangle of the universe as seen through a telescope. Today, these photos survive on hundreds of thousands of glass plates at the […]

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Categories: Astronomy & Space

Citizen science joins the general public with the scientific community in creating a collaborative relationship to increase scientific knowledge.  All kinds of people can take part in citizen science projects by collecting and sharing data.  The possibilities are endless, and the contributions are immense!  So, for me, it was only natural that I should become […]

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Categories: Citizen Science Month, Library, NNLM

  All grantees must:  Demonstrate or present a compelling plan for building awareness of and planning for active involvement in citizen science using resources found on SciStarter.org/library-resources, CitizenScienceMonth.org-resources and SciStarter.org/NLM.  Promote the NIH’s All of Us Research Program as one important example of a citizen science project that aims to engage one million volunteers to […]

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Categories: Citizen Science Month, libraries, Library

Your experience of climate change is likely different than that of your relatives living in another state, and probably even different than your cross-town friends. The dispersed nature of climate effects means that they can be felt differently across individual neighborhoods, even within the same city block. Seemingly mundane factors drive these differences: how much […]

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Categories: Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, Nature & Outdoors

In 1902, an international trade deal was brokered between the U.S. and Canada. Frank Baker, superintendent of the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C., had been working on the deal for some time. In a letter from 1900 sent to several addresses in Ontario, Canada, Baker explains he is “very desirous of obtaining” a particular […]

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Categories: Animals

Innovating and finding ways to stay connected to members has been a challenge for almost every organization during 2020. The Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida Council (GSSEF) were able to connect virtually through the Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey on SciStarter during the summer of 2020. This effort allowed the Council to safely reach […]

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Categories: Citizen Science, Girl Scouts

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