Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Catherine Price, Nov 09, 2016
Today is World Science Day, an internationally celebrated day to increase the public’s ability to participate more meaningfully in science and to take action on environmental issues important to their community. The day also coincides with International Science Center and Science Museum Day. At SciStarter, we see citizen science as the perfect way to celebrate and … Read more “Celebrate World Science Day with Citizen Science and NASA”
Categories: Apps, Citizen Science, Events
By Catherine Price, Nov 08, 2016
Imagine thousands of scientists, naturalists, engineers, and innovators in one place and that’s the Bay Area Science Festival! The SciStarter team travelled to San Francisco to spread the joy of citizen science to this excited group. We were lucky to be joined by Kayla and Anelisse from the 49ers Gold Rush squad and the two … Read more “SciStarter and the Science Cheerleaders join forces at the Bay Area Science Festival”
Categories: Citizen Science, Events, Science Cheerleaders, SciFests
By Catherine Price, Nov 01, 2016
SciStarter and Arizona State University hosted change-makers from both the citizen science and maker movements at last week’s first-ever Citizen Science Makers Summit. These two movements both aim to disrupt the status quo of science by changing who participates in the scientific process. “Makers just dive in and create creative engineering solutions” says Darlene … Read more “Citizen Science Makers Summit at Arizona State University”
Categories: ASU Citizen Science Maker Summit, Citizen Science, Events
By Catherine Price, Oct 19, 2016
November 5th, 2016 10am-4pm AT&T Park FREE ADMISSION Join SciStarter at the Bay Area Science Festival this November! This free festival will be packed with science enthusiasts. Come to explore hundreds of hands-on activities, opportunities to meet local scientists and engineers, plus fun and educational entertainment. Find SciStarter to learn about citizen science projects you can do in … Read more “Join SciStarter and the Science Cheerleaders at the Bay Area Science Festival!”
Categories: Citizen Science, Events, Science Cheerleaders, SciFests
By Darlene Cavalier, Oct 03, 2016
Do you run, or are you involved in, a citizen science project? Have you created, or would you like to create, a low-cost instrument that can be used for scientific research? Then join us for the the ASU Citizen Science Maker Summit 2016 , a two-day event, hosted by Arizona State University in partnership … Read more “Citizen Science Maker Summit at Arizona State University: Register this week”
Categories: ASU Citizen Science Maker Summit, Events
By Darlene Cavalier, Sep 26, 2016
The video of the 9/23 New Tools breakfast seminar, The Illusion of Average: An Open Science Approach to Research, is now available. The Illusion of Average: An Open Science Approach to Research from SFIS @ ASU on Vimeo. If you missed the first talk in the series, watch the full video here: http://cspo.org/gallery/the-illusion-of-average-implications-for-scientists/ Please join … Read more “The Illusion of Average: An Open Science Approach to Research”
Categories: Citizen Science, Events
By Darlene Cavalier, Sep 23, 2016
The ASU Citizen Science Maker Summit 2016 is a two-day event, hosted by Arizona State University in partnership with SciStarter, designed to explore the crossroads of citizen science and the maker movement. The summit is scheduled for October 26 (evening), 27 & 28, 2016 in downtown Chandler, Arizona at the ASU Chandler Innovation Center. Registration … Read more “Citizen Science Maker Summit 2016”
Categories: ASU Citizen Science Maker Summit, Citizen Science, Events
By Editorial Team, Sep 20, 2016
Join practitioners and researchers from across the field of citizen science from May 17-20 in Saint Paul, Minnesota for the 2017 Citizen Science Association conference. Sessions will span disciplines and sectors, with a focus on making citizen science relevant and useful to more communities. The conference will feature keynote speakers, concurrent sessions and poster presentations, a citizen … Read more “Announcing the 2017 Citizen Science Association Conference”
Categories: Citizen Science, CitSci Research, Events
By Darlene Cavalier, Aug 09, 2016
We all know that scientific research is done in sterile labs by nerds in white lab coats, the results of which eventually makes its way to the public through government agencies or mega corporations who own the ‘science’. If you’ve not paid your dues in academia to get the appropriate science degrees, your capacity to … Read more “Conference Session: “Citizen Science 2.0: Expanding Reach, Expanding Results””
Categories: Citizen Science, Events, libraries
By Catherine Price, Aug 02, 2016
Consider submitting abstracts to two exciting education sessions being offered at the Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting in San Francisco, December 12-16, 2016 (http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/). Abstracts may be submitted at http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/. The deadline for abstract submission is August 3, 2016 at 23:59 EDT. If you are not a member of AGU, an AGU member may sponsor you to submit an … Read more “Call for Citizen Science Abstracts: American Geophysical Union”
Categories: Citizen Science, Citizen Science News, Events
