I’d like to invite Christmas Bird Count participants to add their photos to the Flickr pool we created last year. Photos of birds are great, but we also love photos of birders and some of the other sights from the day.
Here’s a slideshow of the photos in the pool so far:
Flickr is a photo [...]
Here’s an extremely promising online application for tracking health information of many types, particularly for people with conditions like diabetes, depression, cancer, and many, many others:
CureTogether is a place where patients and researchers work together, doing open research to find cures. Patients can start feeling better today by connecting, sharing resources, and tracking their [...]
Bird Atlases are important reference works that map the presence of bird species in greater detail than you’ll find on the maps in your field guide. They are necessarily local efforts. The San Diego Natural History Museum Bird Atlas has completed its data collection and initial publication phases…a massive effort by citizen scientists:
The [...]
The San Diego Natural History Museum has a number of citizen science projects that Delle Willett has pointed us to. The first up is the San Diego County Plant Atlas:
The San Diego County Plant Atlas project was created by the San Diego Natural History Museum to scientifically document the remarkable floristic diversity of San [...]
Spacehack is a terrific new directory of projects where you can participate in space exploration and connect with the space community.
Spacehack categorizes projects as competition, data analysis, education, and open source. Some examples of projects include:
Astronaut Glove Challenge: “designed to promote the development of glove joint technology, resulting in a highly dexterous and flexible [...]
