Project MERCCURI: Citizen scientists are sending microbes to space! [Project update.]

by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 15, 2013 | Citizen Science, Events, ISS

Project Update: Project MERCCURI is a collaboration of the UCDavis microBEnet with the Science Cheerleaders, UC Davis, Space Florida, Nanoracks,  and SciStarter .  There are three components to this research project: 1)  Space Station Microbiome. Collecting microbial...

Citizen science at the Philadelphia Science Festival and NASA Space Apps Challenge

by Darlene Cavalier | Apr 26, 2013 | Citizen Science, Events, Philadelphia Science Festival, Project MERCCURI

Science Cheerleaders bring “citizen science” to the Philadelphia Science Festival and the NASA Space Apps Challenge. Learn how you can get involved in our research project to compare microbes on Earth to microbes on the International Space...

We're taking citizen science to the National Science Teachers Association, then the San Antonio Spurs game…then space!

by Darlene Cavalier | Apr 2, 2013 | Blog, Citizen Science, Events, ISS, San Antonio Spurs game

Check out that last line, “DO SCIENCE AT THE GAME! Help collect microbes to send to space!” You read that right, ladies and gentlemen. Project MERCCURI (Microbial Ecology Research Combining Citizen and University Researchers on ISS),a new research project...

Science Cheerleader to participate in American Association for the Advancement of Science Webinar on April 5: "How to recruit citizen scientists for discovery."

by Darlene Cavalier | Mar 29, 2013 | Cavalier Speaking engagements, Citizen Science, Events

From the AAAS website: Have a research project that requires large data collection and analysis? Working on a tight budget and an even tighter timeline? Ever thought about outsourcing some of this work to the public? Using the power of the crowd, via the Internet and...

We're going to space, Science Cheerleaders!

by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 30, 2012 | Blog, Citizen Science, In the News, ISS

This morning, Space Florida announced that a research proposal submitted by SciStarter, Science Cheerleader and UCDavis won  a competition to fly innovative research projects on the International Space Station via Space X in December 2013. We are stoked. This research...

Science Cheerleader and SciStarter: Uniting citizen scientists, hackers, and public policy makers.

by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 14, 2012 | Citizen Science, Photo Gallery, Science Policy

Our sister site, SciStarter, (a site that helps make it easier for people to learn about and get involved in formal and informal research projects), *just* launched this contest with Instructables and Discover Magazine to formally start bridging the gap between...