Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Ariel Simons, Mar 16, 2015
Editor’s Note: This is a two-part post, a version of which first appeared on the author’s blog. Drive through the United States, and one thing you will notice is a high degree of repetition in the scenery. Highways cross through large fields of near-identical corn and soy crops, punctuated by towns containing a similarly small set … Read more “Are Food Deserts also Food Monocultures? Proposing a Citizen Science Project in Urban Ecology”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Arvind Suresh, Mar 09, 2015
We think migration is one of the most astounding phenomena in the animal world. Creatures large and small travel hundreds, even thousands of miles along the same routes every year, to the amazement of us human observers. Here are five migration projects that study migratory wildlife and are in need of your observations. Cheers! The … Read more “Spring Forward and Track Migrations for Citizen Science”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Darlene Cavalier, Mar 03, 2015
Have at em! Click on the image to find an app or two for you. (Courtesy of Google Play.)
Categories: Apps, Citizen Science
By Carolyn Graybeal, Mar 02, 2015
With our ever-increasing connectivity and reliance on the internet, cybersecurity is a growing concern. Despite all the cautionary warnings about cyber safety, individuals, companies and government agencies still fall victim to attack. So what does it take to stay safe? NOVA, in partnership with computer scientists and cybersecurity experts, created the Cybersecurity Lab, a digital … Read more “Playing It Safe Online: NOVA Cybersecurity Lab Trains You to Carefully Navigate the Web”
Categories: Citizen Science, Computers & Technology, Gaming
By Caren Cooper, Feb 24, 2015
The next time you get into an argument with your laptop or shake a fist at your computer, try to refrain from calling it “a stupid machine.” That would be gloating. We really are more intelligent than our computers. Case in point, the human mind can solve some puzzles better than computers. On this principle, … Read more “Coop’s Scoop: Mind over Mainframe – next #CitSciChat discusses citizen science games”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Arvind Suresh, Feb 23, 2015
Citizen science makes serious contributions to our understanding of the world, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun doing it! Here are five projects that combine science and gameplay to create an exciting experience for everyone. Cheers! The SciStarter Team
Categories: Apps, Gaming
By Carolyn Graybeal, Feb 22, 2015
On its surface, it looks like just another science puzzle game. In reality, the game is part of a broader goal to enable non-scientists to contribute to synthetic biology research. ‘It’ is Nanocrafter, a project created by researchers and game developers at the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington. They are … Read more “Nanocrafter: Playing a Game of Synthetic Biology”
Categories: Biology, Citizen Science
By Darlene Cavalier, Feb 18, 2015
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Citizen Science Hackfest on 2/11 at the Citizen Science Association’s conference in San Jose, CA! This hands-on and discussion-driven meet-up was a wonderful opportunity for participants to dream up AND build creative tools to improve the field of citizen science! . Once we settled into our digs (conveniently situated … Read more “Reports from the Hackfest at the Citizen Science Association conference”
Categories: Events, hackfest
By Arvind Suresh, Feb 11, 2015
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by David Coil a Project Scientist in the lab of Jonathan Eisen at UC Davis and a member of the Project MERCURRI team. We’ve finished analyzing all the data from the “Microbial Playoffs” part of Project MERCCURI(described here). Each microbe that was chosen to fly to the International Space … Read more “And the winners of the #spacemicrobes Microbial Playoffs are…”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Darlene Cavalier, Feb 10, 2015
SAN JOSE, CA – A global audience is gathering this week, intent on changing the way science is done. Over 600 people from 25 countries will convene February 11 and 12, 2015, at the San Jose Convention Center for “Citizen Science 2015,” the inaugural conference of the Citizen Science Association (CSA). In citizen science, members … Read more “Capacity Crowd for Citizen Science 2015 Conference”
Categories: Events, hackfest
