Tag: Philadelphia

This April, The Crowd & The Cloud brings you a 4-part public television series exploring citizen science, crowdsourcing, and mobile technology. You’ll find the SciStarter Project Finder on The Crowd & The Cloud website to help viewers of the show become do-ers of science!  Below we’ve highlighted each episode and related projects to jump start […]

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Categories: Citizen Science, Citizen Science News, Computers & Technology, Ecology & Environment, Newsletter

Citizen Science in the City

Do you live or work in a city? Well, have we got the projects for YOU! Below, we highlight research projects in need of your help in cities.  Find more projects on SciStarter to do now or bookmark your favorites for later! Cheers! The SciStarter Team

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Categories: Citizen Science, Newsletter

And the Squirrels Were Merry

I grew up in Fishtown, Philadelphia, an inner city grid of red-brick row homes, corner bars, candy shops, and barely-breathing factories. Fishtown was not known for its wildlife. There were birds. A wide variety, if two counts as a wide variety: big birds (pigeons) and small birds (sparrows). There were cats and an occasional dog […]

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Categories: Animals, Citizen Science, Nature & Outdoors, Other

Science Festivals and Hack Days!

April is the month for science festivals. Join the SciStarter team at a festival near you later on this month — bring yourselves, and we’ll bring the citizen science! Cambridge Science Festival Friday, April 18 – Sunday, April 27 Come check out the diverse spectrum of citizen science projects out there! On April 19th during […]

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Categories: Citizen Science, Events, hackfest

Incentives for citizen scientists: report, recruit, verify

For most people, a citizen science project provides a way to address a specific scientific challenge with the help of volunteers. For a group of researchers from MIT, UCSD, Masdar Institute, and University of Southampton, it is also an opportunity to study what motivates people to join the project. Would you rather receive a badge, […]

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Categories: Citizen Science, Guest Contributor

Spot the most defibrillators in Philly, win $10K!

MyHeartMap Challenge aims to crowdsource the first-of-its-kind map of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in Philadelphia by photographing AEDs.

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Categories: Apps, Contest, Health

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