Citizen Science Projects

Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) is an organization at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, which engages in citizen science watershed monitoring AND helps other groups start their own programs.
Their monitoring of Pennsylvania waterways resulted in detailed databases on pH and alkalinity in Pennsylvania streams. They’ve also created watershed atlases depicting land use, population [...]

Great video report from Adam Rogers and Wired Science about the impotent chemistry sets being sold today and the glorious ones of the past.

This was being sent around the office at work as our excitement there grows about the upcoming Maker Media book, Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments.
I can’t for the [...]