Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Carolyn Graybeal, Jul 31, 2014
Identify beached birds and help monitor the health of the coastal ecosystem. Looking for more summertime citizen science projects? Find them here. Do you enjoy long walks on the beach while taking in the surrounding wildlife? Are you concerned about environmental issues and passionate about community projects? … Read more “COASST: Monitoring seabirds of the Pacific Northwest”
Categories: Animals, Biology, Birds, Citizen Science, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors
By Ian Vorster, Jul 30, 2014
This post is part of Exploring a Culture of Health, a citizen science series brought to you by Discover Magazine, SciStarter and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, serving as an ally to help Americans work together to build a national Culture of Health that enables everyone to lead healthier lives now and for generations to come. Every day, nurses … Read more “Exploring a Culture of Health: Nurses Making Things with their Hands to Improve Healthcare with MakerNurse”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Ian Vorster, Jul 29, 2014
What lives along New Zealand’s shoreline? Find out, one square metre at a time, with Marine Metre Squared. Looking for more summertime citizen science projects? Find them here. Every now and again I come across a citizen science project that inspires me. Don’t get me wrong—most of the people I interview, whether they are counting … Read more “Marine Metre Squared: Ngā Tini o te Waitai (The Multitudes of the Sea)”
Categories: Animals, Citizen Science, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors, Ocean & Water
By Rae Moore - Editor, Jul 28, 2014
Chris Goforth, the creator of the Dragonfly Swarm Project, discusses how citizen science has impacted the study of dragonfly behavior. Looking for more summertime citizen science projects? Find them here. Sometimes science is hard. If you want to study something that happens slowly, is rare, or requires thousands of observations, it can take a lifetime … Read more “Unpredictable and Magical: The Allure of the Dragonfly Swarm [GUEST POST]”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Caren Cooper, Jul 27, 2014
Discover Magazine’s September print edition featured an infographic called “20 Things You Didn’t Know About Cats.” Felines seem to lead elusive, mysterious lives. Fortunately, the citizen science project Cat Tracker allows you to track your cat beyond what we can directly observe. Cats are moody. In the blink of an eye, a cat can change … Read more “The Nine Simultaneous Lives of Cats: Cat Tracker”
Categories: Animals, Citizen Science
By Lily Bui, Jul 25, 2014
The World Water Monitoring Challenge results are out! Earlier this year, I found myself hanging over a concrete ledge by the Charles River. But not to worry – it was nothing dire. I was actually trying to collect a water sample for the World Water Monitoring Challenge. Talk about diving headfirst into citizen science. On … Read more “Just Add Water: World Water Monitoring Challenge 2013 Results”
Categories: Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering), Citizen Science, Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering), Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors, Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information, Planning and carrying out investigations
By Ian Vorster, Jul 23, 2014
This post is part of Exploring a Culture of Health, a citizen science series brought to you by Discover Magazine, SciStarter and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, serving as an ally to help Americans work together to build a national Culture of Health that enables everyone to lead healthier lives now and for generations to come. At first glance, … Read more “Exploring a Culture of Health: Creating a Roadmap to Community Health”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Rae Moore - Editor, Jul 21, 2014
Share jellyfish sightings, track stars during evening beach strolls, count fireflies, or report dragonfly swarms while you’re at the beach this summer. Or participate in dozens of other summertime citizen science projects and advance fields of research in the process! Why not do them all? Hey! If you’re involved in more than one project, we’d … Read more “Citizen Science is a Shore Thing!”
Categories: Animals, Citizen Science, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors, Ocean & Water
By Caren Cooper, Jul 20, 2014
Editor’s Note: Flight MH17 was a horrible tragedy, with many lives lost, including HIV/AIDS researchers en route to a conference. In Caren Cooper’s latest Coop’s Citizen Sci Scoop, she explains how citizen science assisted with AIDS research, and how AIDS activists were able to become participatory members of the medical and scientific process. Here, in full, … Read more “Coop’s Citizen Sci Scoop: Patients Who Were Research Subjects and the Doctors Who Listened – the Citizen Science of HIV/AIDS Research”
Categories: Citizen Science, Health
By Melinda T. Hough,
Live in Los Angeles county? Photograph butterflies and moths, and help scientists study climate change. Interested in more moth and butterfly citizen science projects? We’ve got you covered! “Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one…” [2] In the heat of summer monsoons, butterflies accompany the paddling … Read more “Waiting for a butterfly to flutter by with the Los Angeles Butterfly Survey”
Categories: Biology, Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, Ecology & Environment, Insects, Nature & Outdoors
