Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
Listen up! Our editors sniffed out a list of projects to lay your hands on and sink your teeth into. See for yourself! The Smell Experience Project Changes in odor perception can be a symptom of a disease or a side effect of medication. Smell Experience Researchers need your help to better understand changes in … Read more “Citizen Science for the Senses”
Categories: Citizen Science, Newsletter
Students Explore the Surface of Mars and Contribute to Citizen Science From Their Classroom Grades: 1st -12th Description: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is asking for help in processing data collected on Mars, in the form of pictures taken by the Mars Rovers, Spirit and Curiosity. On the “Be a Martian” home page … Read more “Citizen Science in the Classrom: Mapping Mars and Be a Martian with NASA”
Categories: Astronomy & Space, Citizen Science, Science Education Standards
The non-profit Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (Public Lab) previously won a Knight News Challenge in 2011 and received $500,000 to fund a tool kit and online community for citizen-based, grassroots data gathering and research. The second Knight News Challenge the group won, a $350,000 Knight award focused on health data, will allow the group … Read more “Homebrew Sensing Project: DIY Environmental Monitoring”
Categories: Do-It-Yourself, Ecology & Environment, In the News
Science Cheerleaders to Visit the Philadelphia 76ers on February 18, 2014. NBA 76ers game to feature interactive science exhibits on the concourse, halftime performance by the Science Cheerleaders, in-game citizen science project for research on the International Space Station. PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (January 30, 2014) – Get ready for an explosion of science at the Philadelphia … Read more “Are you ready for some citizen science at the 76ers on 2/18!?”
Categories: Citizen Science
VerbCorner invites citizen scientists to answer fun questions about words and their meanings to eventually help train computers to understand language. SciStarter is shuffling science into the language department. Explore the science of words with these citizen science projects! Verb. Noun. Pronoun. Adjective. Adverb. Preposition. Conjunction. Interjection… If you’re anything like me, the sight of … Read more “VerbCorner – A Window Into The Brain One Thought At A Time”
Categories: Citizen Science, Computers & Technology, Gaming
Thanks to the Independence National Historical Park for giving me access to the Liberty Bell. I had a lot of fun collecting microbes from this national treasure in my hometown! Happy to announce that the microbes from the Liberty Bell have been selected to fly on the International Space Station where their growth rates will … Read more “Liberty and Science for All: Project MERCCURI press release”
Categories: Chemistry, Citizen Science, Health, In the News
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
Call to the curious! Are you involved in more than one citizen science project? Help SciStarter get better at connecting you to citizen science projects that you’re interested in! Take our 5-minute survey. (You’ll get a FREE t-shirt and microbe kit!) Hungry for more projects? Search our database of over 600 citizen science projects in … Read more “Calling All Serial Citizen Scientists!”
Categories: Citizen Science
Using Project Noah to Meet Common Core and Next Generation Teaching Standards Grades: K-12th Description: Project Noah is a digital platform that is designed to allow students, teachers, citizens and biologists to create a database that documents the biodiversity of plants, animals, insects, and much more across the planet. The data uploaded includes photos, geographic location, date, … Read more “Citizen Science in the Classroom Series: Project Noah”
Categories: Citizen Science, Science Education Standards
SciStarter is welcoming some new interns to our team! Here they are to tell you about their projects. We encourage you to leave a comment to say hello, and don’t be shy about reaching out to them directly about their projects. Hi everyone! My name is Mariana Surillo, and I am a sophomore at Saint … Read more “Welcoming Our SciStarter Interns: Mariana, Stephen, and Caroline”
Categories: Citizen Science
