Month: July 2016

Using Citizen Science to Track Sevengill Sharks

By Guest Contributor, Jul 01, 2016

Guest post by Mike Bear The San Diego-based non-profit Ocean  Sanctuaries was founded in 2014 to create and provide support for marine citizen science projects. The Sevengill Shark Identification Project was one of its first citizen science projects, begun in 2010 in response to anecdotal evidence that divers were seeing increasing numbers Sevengill sharks off … Read more “Using Citizen Science to Track Sevengill Sharks”

Categories: Citizen Science, Guest Contributor, Project Profile

Citizen Science: Empowering a Robust National Effort

By Darlene Cavalier,

On June 7, 2016, the American Chemical Society Science & the Congress Project, co-organized a Capitol Hill briefing about Citizen Science, with the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University. Honorary Co-Hosts Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) and Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE). Check out the talks by moderator Jamie Vernon (Sigma Xi, American … Read more “Citizen Science: Empowering a Robust National Effort”

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