Spring (and Citizen Science) Are For the Birds!
Fly, don't walk, to these projects to find, study and snap pictures of birds wherever you live. … Read more
Categories: Featured Projects
Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
Fly, don't walk, to these projects to find, study and snap pictures of birds wherever you live. … Read more
Categories: Featured Projects
A recent article in the New York Times highlights the way urban environments are affecting evolution in a variety of species. From European blackbirds with high-pitched calls to beat the sound of traffic to spiders adapted to build their webs closer to light poles, the dynamic and harsh urban environment is changing our biodiversity. Citizen scientists are … Read more “Urban Citizen Science”
Categories: Animals, Biology, Citizen Science, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors, Newsletter
Editor’s Note: This is a two-part post, a version of which first appeared on the author’s blog. Drive through the United States, and one thing you will notice is a high degree of repetition in the scenery. Highways cross through large fields of near-identical corn and soy crops, punctuated by towns containing a similarly small set … Read more “Are Food Deserts also Food Monocultures? Proposing a Citizen Science Project in Urban Ecology”
Categories: Citizen Science