The folks behind World Water Monitoring Day want to be sure you save the date for this year’s events:
In honor of World Water Day, the Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association would like to remind you to save the date of September 18, 2007 for the next World Water Monitoring Day!
World Water Monitoring [...]
I just found out about this, but there’s still just barely time to participate in this year’s GLOBE at Night project. The project runs for two more nights, through March 21, and asks observers to report which stars in the constellation Orion are visible from their location, in an effort to determine the extent [...]
Here’s an interesting new project: Spider WebWatch. From the web site:
Spider WebWatch is a biodiversity monitoring effort for biologists, naturalists, educators and students of all ages who have an appreciation for North America’s native spider fauna. From more than 4,400 species of spiders, 9 were chosen as eight-legged ambassadors for this interactive program. [...]
Here’s an interesting citizen science project: doing surveys for breeding bird atlases. The Napa-Solano Audubon Society here in California is seeking volunteers for their project, and posted an excellent description of the work:
What does an atlaser do? The county is grid into 5 km x 5 km (about 3
miles x 3 miles) blocks. [...]
