Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Editorial Team, Jul 28, 2017
This week is Shark Week so we wanted to celebrate by returning to three posts written about Sevengill Sharks and ways you can support their conservation through the Sevengill Sharks Tracking Project. The first post (seen below) was published in 2013 with others following in 2015 and 2016. Not really into carnivorous fish? Check out … Read more “Celebrating Shark Week with Sevengill Sharks”
Categories: Citizen Science, Guest Contributor, Project Profile
By Darlene Cavalier, Jul 21, 2017
Sink your teeth into these projects! The Discovery Channel kicks off Shark Week in three days, when we’ll will find out if Michael Phelps is faster than a shark! Not quite up for racing a shark yourself? You can still celebrate Shark Week by getting involved in one of the many citizen science projects that study and protect sharks. Below, … Read more “Shark Week: A feeding frenzy for citizen scientists!”
Categories: Animals, Citizen Science, Featured Projects
By Guest Contributor, Jul 18, 2017
By Brad Mehlenbacher (North Carolina State University) and Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher (University of Waterloo) Through citizen science projects, the Bodleian Library is improving access to their music collections, the Smithsonian is transcribing important documents, and researchers at the University of Oxford are transcribing Ancient Greek text from Greco-Roman Egypt. Although these projects represent promising examples … Read more “Finding the Common Culture: Uniting Science and the Humanities in Citizen Science”
Categories: Citizen Science, Citizen Science News, Guest Contributor
By Russ Campbell, Jul 14, 2017
There is a lot to learn from bees. The survival of the hive depends on the combined efforts of the entire colony. In Conetoe (pronounced KUH-nee-tah), North Carolina Reverend Richard Joyner and his family of youth beekeepers are tending to bees and building community, one hive at a time. Reverend Joyner is the force behind … Read more “Network of Bees”
Categories: Citizen Science, Guest Contributor, Insects, Other
By Darlene Cavalier, Jul 12, 2017
At SciStarter, we aim to reach people where they are and connect them to opportunities to do and shape science through citizen science projects in need of their help. If someone wants to promote or recruit participants for their project, event, or tool, they register it on SciStarter. Our editors review each record before publishing … Read more “How SciStarter helps connect people to citizen science projects, events and tools.”
Categories: Citizen Science, SciStarter News
By Guest Contributor, Jul 10, 2017
If you’re familiar with “hackathons” – intense hacking marathons, or “mapathons” – mapping parties commonly held by mappers worldwide, the term “catchathon” might be starting to make some sense by now. If not – read on. There’s a marathon of Alzheimer’s citizen science coming on July 22nd, and you can be part of it!
Categories: Citizen Science, Events, Health
By Kristin Butler, Jul 08, 2017
This post is part of our Divers’ series. We encourage readers to continue the conversation by adding their own comments, question or concerns on our Facebook page. You’ll find links to other posts at the end of this story. Two years ago I rang in the New Year by scuba diving with giant manta rays off … Read more “Citizen Scientists Diving to Study The Mystery of Manta Rays”
Categories: Citizen Science, Ocean & Water, Project Profile
By Catherine Price, Jun 27, 2017
What are plants trying to tell us? Take a moment to look at and listen to the plants around you. Are they blooming earlier than usual? Are they playing host to pollinators? Do you know their names? Summer is finally here and the plants in our yards, parks, and schools are probably in full bloom. … Read more “Could you be a plant whisperer?”
Categories: Citizen Science, Nature & Outdoors, Newsletter
By Guest Contributor, Jun 21, 2017
By: Alexei V. Filippenko and Hugh Hudson On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will trace a shadow over a narrow band of the United States from Oregon to South Carolina. And if you own a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera*, you can become a part of scientific history by joining hundreds of other photographers … Read more “Capturing the Total Solar Eclipse, One Photo at a Time”
Categories: Astronomy & Space, Citizen Science, Project Profile
By Guest Contributor, Jun 20, 2017
By Amy Sterling Four years ago a citizen science game called Eyewire hatched from Seung Lab, then at MIT and now at Princeton. Its goal was to pair up gamers with a challenge that has been bottlenecking neuroscience for decades: mapping the brain. Over the years the project grew. Hundreds of thousands of people helped, … Read more “Science Heroes at Work”
Categories: Citizen Science, Gaming, Project Profile
