by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 30, 2009 | Citizen Science
Found this here.
by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 30, 2009 | Archeology Projects, Blog, Citizen Science, Climate & Weather Projects, Ecology & Environment Projects, Geology & Earth Science Projects, Nature & Outdoor Projects, Projects & Activities
Studying gravestones to track changes in Earth’s chemistry. Call for volunteers! EarthTrek presents a global Gravestone Project. This project aims to map the location of a graveyards around the globe and then use marble gravestones in those graveyards to measure the...
by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 28, 2009 | Citizen Science
We’ve been forecasting this explosion in citizen science for 1.5 years right here. Check out this piece that just ran on NPR today about a DIY (Do It Yourself) biology movement sweeping the nation. And, if you want to scan the landscape of hundreds of other...
by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 22, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science, News
From BBC: Got an experiment you want to conduct? A theory to put to the test? Material World, Radio 4’s weekly science show, is searching for the BBC’s Amateur Scientist of the Year. It’s not just working scientists who have light bulb moments....
by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 16, 2009 | Citizen Science
Great primer for the January launch of SciCheer’s sister site, ScienceforCitizens.net. Today, SEED published this article on the growth of citizen scientists then the author tweeted a link to scicheer. Here are two big points pulled from the article: Researchers...
by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 4, 2009 | Citizen Science, In the News, Writings
Here’s a quirky piece I wrote for DiscoverMagazine.com this morning about a guy who got a bit too ambitious in his search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Citizen Scientist Gone Wild. Happy Friday!
