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January 21, 2021 / Last updated : January 21, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Smithsonian Magazine: Twenty-Four Ways to Turn Outdoor Passions Into Citizen Science

Smithsonian Magazine: Twenty-Four Ways to Turn Outdoor Passions Into Citizen Science. “The idea of crowdsourcing data from citizen scientists is far from new. But as more digital tools like drones and smartphones have entered the hands of ordinary people, projects looking to involve the outdoor-recreating public to collect data are getting more ambitious and diverse. […]

December 5, 2020 / Last updated : December 5, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Outside: How eBird Changed Birding Forever

Outside: How eBird Changed Birding Forever. “Over the past two decades, eBird has become the go-to online platform for scientists and hobbyists alike to upload and share bird observations. But it has also transformed the process and etiquette of birding.”

November 19, 2020 / Last updated : November 19, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Phys .org: ‘Strange rays’ crowdsourced on social media shed light on black hole illumination

Phys .org: ‘Strange rays’ crowdsourced on social media shed light on black hole illumination. “Unlike most scientific research, the team observing IC 5063’s strange rays assembled in a peculiar fashion: via crowd sourcing on social media. In December 2019, space image processing expert and citizen scientist Judy Schmidt noticed strange cones while processing an image […]

November 18, 2020 / Last updated : November 18, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Cancer Data Science Pulse: “Count Me In” Gives Patients a Voice in Scientific Discovery

Cancer Data Science Pulse: “Count Me In” Gives Patients a Voice in Scientific Discovery. “What makes the program unique is that it creates a new pipeline for clinical and genomic cancer data by partnering with patients to collect information. This type of ‘citizen science’ is a largely untapped but vital part of data science. It […]

October 11, 2020 / Last updated : October 11, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: Snapshot Wisconsin’s Data Dashboard Now Open To The Public

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: Snapshot Wisconsin’s Data Dashboard Now Open To The Public. “Snapshot Wisconsin, one of the Department of Natural Resources’ largest citizen science projects, opened its new data visualization tool to the public today. data dashboard is a new tool that lets the public interact with data collected from approximately 2,000 cameras […]

October 7, 2020 / Last updated : October 7, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Utah Public Media: New Citizen Science Program Will Use Social Media Posts To Monitor Drought In Utah

Utah Public Media: New Citizen Science Program Will Use Social Media Posts To Monitor Drought In Utah. “Through a new citizen science initiative, the Utah Climate Center will capture drought data through public observations posted on social media.”

October 7, 2020 / Last updated : October 7, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Volunteers wanted: NASA’s Planet Patrol wants your help to find alien worlds (Space)

Space: Volunteers wanted: NASA’s Planet Patrol wants your help to find alien worlds. “You can help NASA’s newest planet-hunting mission do its otherworldly work. The space agency just launched a citizen-science project called Planet Patrol, which asks volunteers around the world to sort through images collected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).”

September 22, 2020 / Last updated : September 22, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Science Blog: Do-It-Yourself COVID-19 Vaccines Fraught With Public Health Problems

Science Blog: Do-It-Yourself COVID-19 Vaccines Fraught With Public Health Problems. “As the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the globe, several citizen science groups outside the auspices of the pharmaceutical industry have been working to develop and self-test unproven medical interventions to combat COVID-19. Although some of the interest in a DIY approach stems from […]

September 13, 2020 / Last updated : September 13, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Lonely Planet: This website aims to find the top places for wildlife spotting in Africa

Lonely Planet: This website aims to find the top places for wildlife spotting in Africa. “Whether you want to tick the Big Five off your African safari bucket list or seek out specific species, a new website from Expert Africa is making it easier than ever to decide which country and even which lodges offer […]

September 8, 2020 / Last updated : September 8, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Cosmos Magazine: Renewed interest in weathered records

Cosmos Magazine: Renewed interest in weathered records. “Each week Cosmos takes a look at projects and news about citizen science in Australia. This week, we report on a new initiative launched by Climate History Australia at the Australian National University (ANU). Scientists at ANU have an ambition to create Australia’s longest daily weather record, beginning […]

August 29, 2020 / Last updated : August 29, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

ABC News (Australia): Australian Museum crowdsourcing website DigiVol sees spike in volunteers during COVID-19

ABC News (Australia): Australian Museum crowdsourcing website DigiVol sees spike in volunteers during COVID-19 . “DigiVol was developed by the museum in collaboration with the Atlas Of Living Australia to help it and other institutions worldwide digitise and analyse their collections…. Since the website was launched in 2011, 4.4 million items from the museum and […]

August 20, 2020 / Last updated : August 20, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Canadian Manufacturing: The next invasion of insect pests will be discovered via social media

Canadian Manufacturing: The next invasion of insect pests will be discovered via social media. “People of all ages are taking to social media to connect with other naturalists. From Whatsthisbug on Reddit (which boasts 245,000 members), to the thousands of active entomologists on Twitter, to the hundreds of groups dedicated to insect identification on Facebook […]

August 6, 2020 / Last updated : August 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Phys .org: Citizen scientists help geologists to identify earthquakes and tectonic tremors

Phys .org: Citizen scientists help geologists to identify earthquakes and tectonic tremors. “Tens of thousands of seismic stations around the world continuously record local seismic activity, with an output that is far beyond what scientists can process. Here, researchers from Northwestern University have called over 2,000 citizen scientists to the rescue for the crowd-based analysis […]

August 2, 2020 / Last updated : August 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

EurekAlert: New smartphone game lets you solve real-world ecological puzzles

EurekAlert: New smartphone game lets you solve real-world ecological puzzles. “EcoBuilder lets players build their own ecosystem of plants and animals. They throw together a bunch of species of different shapes and sizes, decide who eats who within the confines of the game, and depending on their decisions species will either survive or go extinct. […]

July 16, 2020 / Last updated : July 16, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

NASA: ‘Disk Detective’ Needs Your Help Finding Disks Where Planets Form

NASA: ‘Disk Detective’ Needs Your Help Finding Disks Where Planets Form. “Planets form from gas and dust particles swirling around baby stars in enormous spinning disks. But because this process takes millions of years, scientists can only learn about these disks by finding and studying a lot of different examples. Through a project called Disk […]

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