Author: Caren Cooper

If you’re looking for more projects for the holiday season, we’ve got 12 Days of Citizen Science for you! Bird watching has been popular for a long time. It goes back at least as far as the 1780 bird-listing song so popular with carolers, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Certainly only birders would count 7 […]

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Categories: Birds, Citizen Science, Nature & Outdoors

  I like to call it an antipiphany* – that striking realization of the magnitude of what can be known, which reduces what you actually understand to a paltry amount. I’ve seen it again and again with graduate students: they enroll feeling like smarty-pants, and within a year they are humbled by an antipiphany. Eventually […]

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Categories: Astronomy & Space, Citizen Science, Do-It-Yourself, Nature & Outdoors, Science Education Standards

Citizen Science Champions of Change!

Get out the data: making change through citizen science  Non-partisan campaigns to get out the vote occur before every election. It helps remind us of our rights and responsibilities to participate in a democratic society. But we all too often forget that voting is only one of the ways we can contribute to our collective […]

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Categories: Citizen Science

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