An article in our local paper, You can help keep track of the rain, is a great introduction to Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (or CoCoRaHS):
Anyone can do it, including kids, with parental permission. He suggested it as a school project.
“It’s a great way for a hands-on experiment, to collect and submit data,” [...]
We’re helpnig Science Cheerleader with a survey to learn more about our readers.
In an effort to learn more about the fascinating and growing demography of people known as Citizen Scientists (you! water monitors, butterfly taggers, star gazers, weather trackers, bird watchers, etc), the following online survey has been created:
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228PSD79C2S
Consider participating in the brief, online survey. [...]
Here’s a piece from the New York Times blogs: A New Kind of Big Science by Aaron E. Hirsh, a Colorado biologist and writer.
And then there’s that problem of relating to Big Science when you’re standing outside the building, looking up. The difficulty is not just that the research is recondite, but that the work [...]
