The Global Classroom Project is an education-oriented project that teaches students about the water cycle and about making and recording observations:
The Global Classroom Project is a unique, global, research project, where children will become scientist during 10 days. 300 schools from countries such as USA, China, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, South America, Bolivia, Egypt, Spain, Germany, [...]
The Maryland Science Center has a several terrific citizen science programs in the earth sciences:
Earth by Aura: participants take daily UV radiation readings, make the data available online through the Society for Amateur Scientists, and compare daily readings with predicted readings from various weather services and satellites.
Citizens and Remote Sensing Observational Network (CARSON): participants make [...]
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,” [...]
Science isn’t just about collecting data; it’s also about taking a critical look at the way data is collected to understand what legitimate conclusions can be drawn. With the rise of automated data gathering, we might expect to see more projects where the citizen scientist role is one of vetting the data rather than [...]
The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) is a weather project that’s unique. Using low-tech data collection methods instead of of high-priced weather stations, CoCoRaHS collects and shares important precipitation data.
To join CoCoRaHS, you just need to get a high capacity 4” diameter rain gauge and sing up on their web site [...]
This article from he New York Times, Hobbyists Fill Out the Weather Map, describes how amateur meteorologists are contributing to the body of work typically done by professionals.
They also published this short article describing several weather stations and some related online sites: Knowing More Than Which Way the Wind Blows.
I’d like to get more information about citizen storm watchers. The skywarn.org web site has been down, though the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has archived versions of the site.
The National Weather Service in Norman, OK has a good Introduction to Storm Observation and Reporting.
If you have any information about citizen participation in storm spotting, [...]
I’d love to set up a home weather station, and contribute the data to a central source; and I’d especially like to be able to access a historical record of my own. I’d like to be able to answer questions like “Was it really this hot last year?” or “Why are we [...]
