Category: Citizen Science

This project is part of our Back to School 2013 round-up of projects. Read more about them! Breast cancer is the single most common cancer in women worldwide with roughly 1 in 8 women developing the disease each year. Chances are, a friend or family member is coping with this diagnosis right now. Following Angelina […]

This project is part of our Back to School 2013 round-up of projects. Read more about them! Calling all citizen scientists! It doesn’t matter where you are. You can still be an ‘honorary’ diver to help with this project. The idea is simply to look at seafloor photos on your computer and catalogue what you […]

SciStarter goes back to school! Our Project Finder is full of citizen science projects perfect for the classroom. Many include additional teaching materials.  We highlight 10 here that can be used in the classroom, as homework assignments, or as after school family activities across a variety of subjects and age groups.   Project Budburst Participating in Project BudBurst, […]

This is one bait you should take. What possibilities could you think of to use a super strong ‘molecular’ hook? That’s what the inventors of Super-Biotin are asking you. This challenge appears on Marblar, a startup that “crowdsources market applications for emerging and existing technologies” as Mr Daniel Bayley, project organizer and part of the […]

This piece was originally posted on Science Cheerleader. Project Update: Project MERCCURI is a collaboration of the UC Davis microBEnet with the Science Cheerleaders, UC Davis, Space Florida, Nanoracks, and SciStarter. There are three components to this research project: 1) Space Station Microbiome. Collecting microbial swab samples from the International Space Station (ISS) and examining the […]

The first time I ever saw the Perseids, I was 15 years old. I snuck out of the house in the middle of the night (without telling my parents, of course) and found the darkest spot at the park nearby. What followed was one of the most awesome sights I had witnessed up until then: […]

In the height of summer sunbathing, seaside shark sightings universally evoke childhood memories of Jaws, quickly followed by shouts of “Get out of the water!” Yet, fewer than 5 people a year (worldwide) die in shark attacks. Commercial fishing practices and by-catch look set to drive their extinction. Can scientists help save these vital predators? […]

  It’s not always easy for citizen scientists to see what happens with the data they collect. Not all projects are published, and those that are may not be open access and often only include a summary of the findings. I work at F1000Research, and one of the key points of this open access journal […]

That’s right–it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. It’s Shark Week, and SciStarter has a slew of projects for you to try out. Let’s see if you bite. Whether it’s fascination or fear, the sight of a shark makes our hearts skip a beat. Thanks to these featured citizen science projects, that sight can also […]

Emerging technologies have a profound effect on how citizen scientists conduct their work. An underwater creature of ancient lineage helps to tell this modern story of technology’s importance to citizen science. Notorynchus cepedianus, the sevengill shark, of the ancient Hexanchidae family (cow sharks), features seven gill slits and a single dorsal fin, giving a prehistoric […]