Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
Did you know that forecasters rely on YOU to help accurately predict snow storms, floods, droughts and extreme weather conditions? … Read more
Categories: Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, Nature & Outdoors
We are finally at the tipping point, the daylight is getting a little longer with each waning night. We have a chance to look upwards and savor the night sky and tell scientists what we can see of it. … Read more
Categories: Animals, Astronomy & Space, Birds, Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, Featured Projects
There should be more animated movies about citizen science, don’t you think? Thankfully, the people at a weather-focused citizen science project called the Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow project (known by the funny acronym CoCoRaHS) have made this video! It tells the story of how the project started and explains how people all over the country are getting involved. Watch and find out how you can become a CoCoRaHS volunteer too! … Read more
Categories: Citizen Science, Climate & Weather
This past winter, we invited you to participate in SnowTweets and simply “measure your snow to help the planet.” SnowTweets is a citizen science project run by cryosphere researchers Richard Kelly (pictured far left) and Raymond Cabrera at the University of Waterloo (Canada), who sent us the following report to share with you! They’d love … Read more “Modern snow-mapping models vs. The People”
Categories: Citizen Science, Climate & Weather
