Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Sheetal R. Modi, Mar 05, 2014
Count and protect migrating amphibians. Help salamanders cross the road at night with the Salamander Crossing Brigades. Citizen science after hours…here are some citizen science projects you can do at night. Springtime means that love is in the air. Bees are buzzing, birds are chirping, animals are mating–and salamanders want to do it too. That is, if … Read more “Why Did the Salamander Cross the Road?”
Categories: Animals, Biology, Citizen Science, Events, Nature & Outdoors
By Arvind Suresh, Feb 28, 2014
Contribute to light pollution research with the Loss of the Night Android app! Citizen science after hours…here are some citizen science projects you can do at night. I’m going to take a quick bet and guess that every one who is reading this post has at least once gazed up at a clear sky and … Read more “Loss of the Night: Stargazing and Citizen Science”
Categories: Astronomy & Space, Citizen Science, Nature & Outdoors
By Ian Vorster, Feb 09, 2014
The Field Photo Library project helps scientists document changes in landscape by sharing crowdsourced and archived field photos from all over the world. Find more citizen science projects for all five senses on SciStarter. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but what value does “any old geo-tagged photo” hold for a scientist? … Read more “Any Old Photo: The Field Photo Library Project”
Categories: Citizen Science, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors
By Lily Bui, Jan 29, 2014
This is a guest post from Andrea Thomer and Rob Guralnick from Notes From Nature. See more about the authors below. Find more citizen science projects about words. Notes From Nature (official site) is a citizen science transcription project that launched in April 2013 and is part of the Zooniverse stable of projects. The goal behind … Read more “Notes from Nature: Citizen Science Meets Museum Collections and The Trouble With Transcriptions”
Categories: Citizen Science, Nature & Outdoors
By Lily Bui, Jan 18, 2014
This week on The Pulse and SciStarter’s segment about citizen science, producer Kimberly Haas talks to IceWatch USA and Nature’s Notebook (a project of the National Phenology Network) to explore what local bodies of water can tell us about climate change. Listen here! Here’s an excerpt from WHYY’s related blog post: “Concerns about climate change often focus on melting ice: glaciers … Read more “Citizen Science on the Radio: IceWatch USA on WHYY’s the Pulse”
Categories: Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, In the News, Nature & Outdoors
By Jenna Lang,
We’re shuffling science into the language department as we explore citizen science projects about words. Explore the science of words by checking out these projects, fit for lovers of literature and armchair museum curators! Investigating Word Modalities Help determine whether certain words are associated with sight and sound. Complete an online questionnaire, assessing the “sensory … Read more “The Science of Words”
Categories: Citizen Science, Nature & Outdoors, Newsletter
By Melinda T. Hough, Dec 25, 2013
If you’re looking for more projects for the holiday season, we’ve got 12 Days of Citizen Science for you! “On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…” birds! Partridges, turtle doves, French hens, calling birds, golden rings (pheasants), geese and swans inhabit this festival folk classic celebrating food and merriment. Seabirds, … Read more “Surveying Seabirds of the Puget Sound this Holiday Season.”
Categories: Animals, Birds, Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors, Ocean & Water
By Karen McDonald,
Tracking the Invasive Chinese Mitten Crab through the Chinese Mitten Crab Watch When you go outside on a cold and snowy day you put on a coat and mittens to keep you warm, but did you know that there’s a type of crab that actually wears mittens all year round? It’s called the Chinese Mitten … Read more “Monitoring the Spread of the Invasive Chinese Mitten Crab with the Smithsonian”
Categories: Animals, Citizen Science, Nature & Outdoors, Ocean & Water
By Caren Cooper, Dec 24, 2013
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 … Read more “Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards All Birds: Christmas Bird Count”
Categories: Birds, Citizen Science, Nature & Outdoors
By John Ohab, Dec 12, 2013
Make sure you’re on Santa’s “nice list” this year. Lend your hands, hearts and brains to science during these 12 days leading up to Christmas! On the 1st day of Christmas, the Alliance for Saving Threatened Forests gave to me: A chance to monitor the invasive insects that attack both hemlocks and Fraser firs (the most popular … Read more “12 Days of Christmas-y Citizen Science”
Categories: Birds, Citizen Science, Geology & Earth Sciences, Health, Nature & Outdoors
