Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
No matter how old you are, when you hear the theme song to your favorite show playing in the next room, the strongest impulse is always to run over and plop yourself down in front of the screen in unabashed anticipation for the episode to start. It’s almost as if the person who composed the … Read more “Musical Moods for BBC Theme Songs”
Categories: Citizen Science
Calling all hackers and techies! Science and technology have gone hand in hand for so long. Why not bring them even closer by organizing or participating in a Science Hack Day? First off, what is a hack day? (I assure you that there is no dismemberment involved.) Hack days are usually 48- to 52-hour events … Read more “A Meeting of the Minds: Science Hack Day”
Categories: Computers & Technology, hackfest
Idleness never looked more productive. Here’s a citizen science project that quite literally requires zero energy from you in order to participate! The World Community Grid is a global project that harnesses energy from idle computers to contribute to scientific research. When your computer goes idle, instead of changing to a screensaver featuring swimming fish, … Read more “From Screensavers to Saving the World Through Citizen Science: World Community Grid”
Categories: Chemistry
What would you do if you had one week to control a research satellite? That probably depends on who you are. Amateur photographers might want to take time-lapse photos of the moon to frame in series in their living room. University researchers might want to measure levels of ozone variation on earth across earth’s latitudes. … Read more “First open-source satellite project puts citizen science sensors in space.”
Categories: Citizen Science, Contest, Do-It-Yourself, Science Cheerleaders
Short Notice Citizen Science Event! For those of you in the New York and New Jersey areas, the EPA will be hosting a FREE workshop on Citizen Science. The New York workshop is on the June 19th in New York City, and the New Jersey workshop is June 20th in Edison. Both are all day … Read more “Register for EPA’s NY/NJ Citizen Science workshops by June 17”
Categories: Workshops
While you may know her as the founder of our beloved SciStarter, Darlene Cavalier also spearheads a unique organization called Science Cheerleader, a sister site that promotes science literacy, citizen science, and science policy with the help of scientists and engineers who just happen to be current and former NFL and NBA cheerleaders! Darlene was … Read more “The Citizen Science Movement: Just Add Cheerleaders”
Categories: Citizen Science, Science Education Standards
By Nick Fordes Recently, SciStarter added a project called Petridish, where citizens have a chance to contribute to innovative research in a unique way. Petridish is set up like Kickstarter and several other funding platforms. Users can browse a number of current projects, learn about the research objectives, and then donate at various levels. The really … Read more “Petridish.org lets you join forces with world-renowned researchers”
Categories: Nature & Outdoors
Have an idea for a wearable or smartphone sensor to help monitor and report air quality information? This just in….new contest presented by Innocentive, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Health and Human Service: My Air, My Health: An HHS/EPA Challenge This is a Theoretical Challenge that requires only a written proposal … Read more “Propose ideas for citizen science sensor to report air quality (win $100,000!).”
Categories: Citizen Science
By now, you’ve most likely heard the buzz about the Transit of Venus, occurring Tuesday, June 5, 2012. This cosmic event is worthy of all the attention it has received this week – after all, it only happens every 105.5 or 121.5 years. During the transit, the shadow of Venus will be visible against the … Read more “The Transit of Venus: Coming to a Sky Near You!”
Categories: Astronomy & Space, Citizen Science
SciStarter is a proud founding partner of Expert & Citizen Assessment of Science & Technology (ECAST), a network that cordially invites you to the USA launch of the World Wide Views on Biodiversity project: A distributed, agile, collaborative, and non-partisan 21st century approach that integrates citizen participation, deliberation, expertise, and assessment into government policy making, … Read more “Expert & Citizens Assessment of Science & Technology, for citizen scientists.”
Categories: Citizen Science, Science Policy
