Category: Citizen Science

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Winter is here! Check out more winter weather themed citizen science projects at Scistarter. Here in the northern hemisphere, by this time of year, the signs of winter are nearly fully developed. Pea coats to defend us from the cold, denuded forests, grasses in gowns of morning white, and, of course, symptoms of the flu […]

This is a webinar opportunity from our friends at CitSci.org. Details below! Greetings from CitSci.org! We are pleased to announce our December “Feature Friday” webinar where you, as members of the growing CitSci.org community, are invited to offer your ideas and thoughts about improvements to CitSci.org. The first Friday of each month these webinars will […]

  We are very excited to share the very first teaser segment for WHYY’s The Pulse with you, which aired last night at 6PM ET! Listen here: http://bit.ly/1bgaPTS The producer Kimberly Haas talks about PhillyTreeMap, Azavea, and the local Plant One Million Campaign. The Pulse is WHYY’s upcoming weekly one-hour radio program focused on health, science and […]