Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Darlene Cavalier, Jan 31, 2014
Science Cheerleaders to Visit the Philadelphia 76ers on February 18, 2014. NBA 76ers game to feature interactive science exhibits on the concourse, halftime performance by the Science Cheerleaders, in-game citizen science project for research on the International Space Station. PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (January 30, 2014) – Get ready for an explosion of science at the Philadelphia … Read more “Are you ready for some citizen science at the 76ers on 2/18!?”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Melinda T. Hough,
VerbCorner invites citizen scientists to answer fun questions about words and their meanings to eventually help train computers to understand language. SciStarter is shuffling science into the language department. Explore the science of words with these citizen science projects! Verb. Noun. Pronoun. Adjective. Adverb. Preposition. Conjunction. Interjection… If you’re anything like me, the sight of … Read more “VerbCorner – A Window Into The Brain One Thought At A Time”
Categories: Citizen Science, Computers & Technology, Gaming
By Darlene Cavalier,
Thanks to the Independence National Historical Park for giving me access to the Liberty Bell. I had a lot of fun collecting microbes from this national treasure in my hometown! Happy to announce that the microbes from the Liberty Bell have been selected to fly on the International Space Station where their growth rates will … Read more “Liberty and Science for All: Project MERCCURI press release”
Categories: Chemistry, Citizen Science, Health, In the News
By Lily Bui, Jan 29, 2014
This is a guest post from Andrea Thomer and Rob Guralnick from Notes From Nature. See more about the authors below. Find more citizen science projects about words. Notes From Nature (official site) is a citizen science transcription project that launched in April 2013 and is part of the Zooniverse stable of projects. The goal behind … Read more “Notes from Nature: Citizen Science Meets Museum Collections and The Trouble With Transcriptions”
Categories: Citizen Science, Nature & Outdoors
By Lily Bui, Jan 28, 2014
Call to the curious! Are you involved in more than one citizen science project? Help SciStarter get better at connecting you to citizen science projects that you’re interested in! Take our 5-minute survey. (You’ll get a FREE t-shirt and microbe kit!) Hungry for more projects? Search our database of over 600 citizen science projects in … Read more “Calling All Serial Citizen Scientists!”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Karen McDonald, Jan 23, 2014
Using Project Noah to Meet Common Core and Next Generation Teaching Standards Grades: K-12th Description: Project Noah is a digital platform that is designed to allow students, teachers, citizens and biologists to create a database that documents the biodiversity of plants, animals, insects, and much more across the planet. The data uploaded includes photos, geographic location, date, … Read more “Citizen Science in the Classroom Series: Project Noah”
Categories: Citizen Science, Science Education Standards
By Lily Bui, Jan 22, 2014
SciStarter is welcoming some new interns to our team! Here they are to tell you about their projects. We encourage you to leave a comment to say hello, and don’t be shy about reaching out to them directly about their projects. Hi everyone! My name is Mariana Surillo, and I am a sophomore at Saint … Read more “Welcoming Our SciStarter Interns: Mariana, Stephen, and Caroline”
Categories: Citizen Science
By Emily Lewis, Jan 21, 2014
Investigating Word Modalities seeks citizen scientists to help investigate words attached to senses. SciStarter is shuffling science into the language department. Explore the science of words with these citizen science projects! Modality describes a pathway in the body through which a stimulus is registered. It essentially refers to one of the five senses. For example, … Read more “Can Words Trigger a Response from Your Senses? Find Out with the Investigating Word Modalities Project”
Categories: Biology
By Lily Bui, Jan 18, 2014
This week on The Pulse and SciStarter’s segment about citizen science, producer Kimberly Haas talks to IceWatch USA and Nature’s Notebook (a project of the National Phenology Network) to explore what local bodies of water can tell us about climate change. Listen here! Here’s an excerpt from WHYY’s related blog post: “Concerns about climate change often focus on melting ice: glaciers … Read more “Citizen Science on the Radio: IceWatch USA on WHYY’s the Pulse”
Categories: Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, In the News, Nature & Outdoors
By Sheetal R. Modi,
The Ancient Lives project invites citizen scientists to transcribe ancient papyri texts from Greco-Roman Egypt. SciStarter is shuffling science into the language department. Explore the science of words with these citizen science projects! “One doesn’t have to call it weakness and cowardice, having to retreat, if it’s under the compulsion of a god: no, we … Read more “Uncovering ‘Ancient Lives’ With Citizen Science”
Categories: Archeology, Citizen Science
