by Darlene Cavalier | Jan 8, 2010 | Blog, Citizen Science, In the News, Science Education
In prepping for the ScienceOnline 2010 conference, I dug up this TV report. Don’t know why it took five months for me to catch this but check out the closing banter between the anchors. Love this line “Education can be entertaining.”
by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 31, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science
2009 was a thrilling year for citizen scientists (you know, those “average citizens” who volunteer to lend their brains to science). It wasn’t that long ago, when as a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, I’d inevitably be met with blank...
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....
