Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Bob Hirshon, Oct 16, 2024
For thousands of years, people have been using fungi to bake bread and brew beer (yeasts), as nutritious foods (mushrooms and truffles), and, more recently, as a source of life-saving antibiotics (penicillin, neomycin and many more). And yet, an estimated 95% of all fungus species remain undiscovered. Fortunately, thousands of energetic citizen scientists like you … Read more “Falling for Fungi!”
Categories: Biology, Citizen Science, Ecology & Environment, Environment, Nature & Outdoors
By Bob Hirshon, Nov 18, 2022
Listen to the podcast: https://citscipod.podbean.com/e/the-great-north-american-fungiquest/ Thousands of mycophiles took to the forest in October to document as many mushrooms as they could, as part of the first annual Great North American FungiQuest. In this podcast, we spoke with Robert Courteau, project creator and also founder of the non-profit group Think Fungi. Projects and other links … Read more “The Great North American FungiQuest (podcast transcript and links)”
Categories: Biology, Citizen Science, Citizen Science News, CitSci Research, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors
By Nathaniel Scharping, Nov 17, 2022
This fall, between September 15 and October 15, more than 30,000 volunteers combed through forests, fields and even their own backyards in search of the humble mushroom. They were participating in the Great North American FungiQuest, a massive bioblitz that aimed to find and identify as many fungi as possible in the span of just … Read more “Largest-Ever Fungi Bioblitz Catalogs the Diversity of North American Mushrooms and More”
Categories: Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors
By Arvind Suresh, Apr 29, 2015
Taking you behind the scenes and into the laboratory of the Citizen Science Soil Collection Program This is a guest post by Dr Robert H. Cichewicz a professor at the University of Oklahoma and leader of the Citizen Science Soil Collection Program. Dr Cichewicz previously wrote on SciStarter about how you can participate in this project. In … Read more “Making Medicines from Soil: Going Behind the Scenes of a Citizen Science Project”
Categories: Biology
By Arvind Suresh, Mar 18, 2015
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Dr Robert H. Cichewicz. Director of the University of Oklahoma, Institute for Natural Products Applications and Research Technologies (INPART). Dr Cichewicz leads the Citizen Science Soil Collection Program which is focused on translating natural products into therapeutic leads to combat cancer, infectious diseases, and other unmet medical needs. Visit the project page … Read more “The Next Big Drug Discovery Could Come From a Scoop of Soil in Your Backyard”
Categories: Citizen Science, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors
