Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Ian Vorster, Apr 22, 2014
It’s Earth Day! Celebrate the planet we live on with these amazing environmental citizen science projects! The Earth Day Network records that in 1970 the average American was funneling leaded gas through massive V8 engine blocks, and industry was exhausting toxic smoke into the air and chemical slush into the water with little legal consequence … Read more “3 Citizen Science Projects You Can Do on Earth Day”
Categories: Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, Ecology & Environment, Nature & Outdoors
By Lily Bui, Apr 07, 2014
April is the month for science festivals. Join the SciStarter team at a festival near you later on this month — bring yourselves, and we’ll bring the citizen science! Cambridge Science Festival Friday, April 18 – Sunday, April 27 Come check out the diverse spectrum of citizen science projects out there! On April 19th during … Read more “Science Festivals and Hack Days!”
Categories: Citizen Science, Events, hackfest
By Lily Bui, Feb 27, 2014
A synopsis of and key takeaways from the Citizen Cyberscience Summit 2014 in London As some of you may already know, SciStarter presented at the Citizen Cyberscience Summit in London this past weekend (2/20 to 2/22). In a nutshell, the conference was a place where a multitude of organizations and groups could convene to discuss … Read more “The Citizen Cyberscience Summit: Science for all, and all for science”
Categories: Citizen Science, hackfest
By Lily Bui, Sep 18, 2013
Today is World Water Monitoring Day! Participate by ordering a test kit and submitting sample data through December of this year. Also, check out the ocean of other water citizen science projects on SciStarter. Here at SciStarter, we spend a lot of time supporting citizen science, but we also happen to be citizen scientists ourselves. In the … Read more “Just Add Water: Why Water Monitoring is Important”
Categories: Chemistry, Citizen Science, Climate & Weather, Ecology & Environment, In the News, Nature & Outdoors, Ocean & Water, Science Education Standards
