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Millions of people
enjoy science and
nature.
Thousands of scientists need
volunteers.
But they can’t find each other.
We connect
them
Scientist image and cit scientist images tk to illustrate “we connect them”
We connect
them
Organized, searchable inventory of projects. Partners include Citizen Science Association, Discover, PLOS, NSTA. WHYY.
Matchmaker to help researchers connect with communities.
Someone you know is a CITIZEN SCIENTIST
eBird 1.5 million
reports
Water testing 1.5 million monitors
SETI@ home 5 million
volunteers
Accelerating
analysis of tumor samples in huge datasets.
Forecasting solar activity that poses radiation risks to humans and hardware in space.
Analyzing wild algae species for their potential to produce biofuels.
Citizen Science IS Serious Science.
Citizen Science in Diverse!
Put YOUR citizen science experiment in space.
DIYers + Space Enthusiasts.
University of Waterloo’s Snow Tweets
goal Help researchers calibrate accuracy of snow measurement tools task Measure snow where you are, tweet or upload your geotagged data
“Each vertical bar is one shoe or cell phone. The color represents a different species of bacteria.”
Connect communities of citizen scientists and fields of research.
-Protocols, Methodologies -Data collection/classification, sharing, visualization tools -Privacy -Recruitment, persistence (incentives, motivations) -Open data sets -Evaluation tools -Best practices, case studies
Connect communities of citizen scientists and fields of research.
Informal survey of 200 SciStarter community
members 50% are active in more than one citizen science project, most of which require unique log-ins 74% of those are involved in projects on different topics 84% would like to know how to access their data once they submit it to a project