The folks at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have been hard at work on their Citizen Science Central web site. Be sure to check it out!
Be sure to check out the Toolkit for folks wanting to get a citizen science project of their own started, and a new section devoted to global climate change [...]
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 [...]
Thanks to Alessandro Delfanti and Michel Bauwens for pointing me to this call for articles related to citizen science:
Call for articles:
User-led Science – A special issue of JCOM, Journal of Science Communication
Deadline: May 15, 2009
http://jcom.sissa.it/call
Science is increasingly being produced, discussed and deliberated with cooperative tools by web users and without the istitutionalized presence of scientists. [...]
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 [...]
The Mushroom Observer is envisioned as “a living field guide for mushrooms or a collaborative mushroom field journal”. The field of mycology, the study of fungi, is an exciting one for amateur scientists because there’s so much yet to learn about these fascinating forms of life.
Participants on the Mushroom Observer site upload photos and [...]
Here’s a roundup of links I’ve been meaning to post — lots of good reading for the long weekend here!
Citizen Science Central from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has been updated and refreshed in recent months and features great resources for anyone interested in participating in or founding a citizen science project. It also [...]
Watching a bird’s nest is a fascinating experience. Nest building is intricate and a delight to watch. Baby birds grow shockingly fast…suddenly, they’re as big as adult birds and taking their first flights.
If you’re fortunate enough to be watching a nest this season, consider joining Nest Watch. Formerly known as the “Birdhouse [...]
You’ve read the news stories about the sudden declines in bee populations in the United States; the status of these important pollinators should be of interest to anyone who’s interested in…well, eating!
The Great Sunflower Project seeks to learn about the status of bees, and asks you to watch and record bees that visit sunflowers grown [...]
Kevin Kelly’s recent post, A Web Page For Every Species, is part back-story and part forecast. It tells the story of the All Species Inventory, and it predicts some exciting techniques for citizen scientists to use in their own backyards.
I’m really glad to hear the story of the All Species Inventory; I was [...]
One of the reasons I’ve been slack about posting here is that my interest in food production, cooking, and eating issues has been on an upswing…and there’s not time to do it all. But sometimes these interests overlap, as they did while I was searching the web for information about how to raise our [...]
