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 [...]
The National Phenology Network is a group of government, educational, and scientific organizations that’s, in their words, “designed and organized to engage federal agencies, environmental networks and field stations, educational institutions, and mass participation by citizen scientists.”
Phenology is the incredibly important study of ecologocal events and their timing; in the long term, it can [...]
Earth Alive is another citizen science phenology project, this one by the Aldo Leopold Nature Center. It looks like this project is geared more for classrooms, although anyone can participate; it has a simplified interface and suggests emailing observations that aren’t included on the drop-down menu.
Hat tip to Felicia for the link!
Phenology is the study of when things happen in nature…what day of year do flowers of a specific tree begin to bloom, or when do the swallows return. Long term phenology studies may be the best source of evidence for climate change.
Project Budburst has launched a 2007 pilot citizen science project to collect phenology [...]
PlantWatch is a Canadian project hosted by the Canadian Nature Federation and Environment Canada’s Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network Coordinating Office.
PlantWatch is a phenology project where participants monitor flowering plants and report when they flower (phenology). Data is added instantly to web maps showing bloom times across Canada. Some plants are blooming [...]
