Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Melinda T. Hough, Dec 25, 2013
If you’re looking for more projects for the holiday season, we’ve got 12 Days of Citizen Science for you! “On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…” birds! Partridges, turtle doves, French hens, calling birds, golden rings (pheasants), geese and swans inhabit this festival folk classic celebrating food and merriment. Seabirds, … Read more “Surveying Seabirds of the Puget Sound this Holiday Season.”
Categories: Animals, Birds, Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors, Ocean & Water
By Karen McDonald,
Tracking the Invasive Chinese Mitten Crab through the Chinese Mitten Crab Watch When you go outside on a cold and snowy day you put on a coat and mittens to keep you warm, but did you know that there’s a type of crab that actually wears mittens all year round? It’s called the Chinese Mitten … Read more “Monitoring the Spread of the Invasive Chinese Mitten Crab with the Smithsonian”
Categories: Animals, Citizen Science, Nature & Outdoors, Ocean & Water
By Caren Cooper, Dec 24, 2013
If you’re looking for more projects for the holiday season, we’ve got 12 Days of Citizen Science for you! Bird watching has been popular for a long time. It goes back at least as far as the 1780 bird-listing song so popular with carolers, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Certainly only birders would count 7 … Read more “Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards All Birds: Christmas Bird Count”
Categories: Birds, Citizen Science, Nature & Outdoors
By Lily Bui, Dec 20, 2013
This week on The Pulse and SciStarter’s segment about citizen science, producer Kimberly Haas talks to the Tiny Terrors Project, and Maiken Scott speaks to SciStarter’s founder, Darlene Cavalier. Listen here for the full segment. The Tiny Terrors Project aims to help researchers identify an invasive species, the woolly adelgid, which threatens hemlock and fir trees, among many other … Read more “Citizen Science on the Radio: Tiny Terrors and founder Darlene Cavalier on WHYY’s The Pulse”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Angus Chen,
If you’re looking for more projects for the holiday season, we’ve got 12 Days of Citizen Science for you! Don’t forget to check out the public radio segment about Tiny Terrors on WHYY’s The Pulse! The Grinch is back and this time in the form of a tiny insect invader. Meanwhile, scientists are looking for … Read more “Tiny Woolly Terrors: The Attack of the Adelgid”
Categories: Animals, Biology, Citizen Science, Ecology & Environment
By Karen McDonald, Dec 15, 2013
Using the Lost Lady Bug Project Citizen Science Project to Meet Common Core and Next Generation Teaching Standards Grades: Primary through adult Description: Scientists are asking for help learning about the distribution of native and invasive ladybugs, their populations, and ranges. Classrooms and individuals may participate by joining this project to upload their sightings of … Read more “Citizen Science in the Classroom Series: Lost Ladybug Project”
Categories: Analyzing and interpreting data, Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering), Citizen Science, Insects, Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information, Planning and carrying out investigations, Science Education Standards
By John Ohab, Dec 12, 2013
Make sure you’re on Santa’s “nice list” this year. Lend your hands, hearts and brains to science during these 12 days leading up to Christmas! On the 1st day of Christmas, the Alliance for Saving Threatened Forests gave to me: A chance to monitor the invasive insects that attack both hemlocks and Fraser firs (the most popular … Read more “12 Days of Christmas-y Citizen Science”
Categories: Birds, Citizen Science, Geology & Earth Sciences, Health, Nature & Outdoors
By Joe Diaz, Dec 11, 2013
As an educator, I wanted to take a moment to write you all to inform you about the Hour of Code project that is taking place globally this week. Both President Obama and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor recently issued statements about Computer Science Education Week, which runs from December 9-15th, to encourage students all around the world … Read more “The Hour of Code: What Most Schools Don’t Teach, and How You Can Learn It”
Categories: Computers & Technology, In the News, Science Education Standards
By Darlene Cavalier,
Discover Magazine, reaching more than 6 million readers, features citizen science in its January/February combined issue available on newsstands now. Coming in at number 76, the citizen science article features key citizen science developments from 2013 including those from Public Lab, CrowdCrafting, Cell Slider and Eye Wire. The article, “Science For the People, By the … Read more “Citizen Science makes Discover Magazine’s “Top 100 Science Stories of 2013””
Categories: Citizen Science, In the News
By Arvind Suresh, Dec 08, 2013
Winter is here! Check out more winter weather themed citizen science projects at Scistarter. You know what the atmosphere is. But have you heard of the cryosphere? No, it’s not a giant frozen ice-cream sphere, if that’s what you’re thinking. (That’s not what you were thinking? Never mind then!) The cryosphere, as Wikipedia most sagely … Read more “Winter + Citizen Scientists + Twitter = Snowtweets!”
Categories: Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, Ecology & Environment, Geology & Earth Sciences
