Posts for tag "citizen science"
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Buoy Monitoring for Red Tide, Students Watching Sea Level Rise
Florida International University is deploying a data buoy to monitor for red tide, and educating citizen scientists on sea level rise.
- Posted March 27, 2019
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New York City’s Urban Field Station: A Unique Partnership Between Researchers and Natural Resource Managers to Improve the Urban Environment
New York City Urban Field Station and its partners strive to preserve, protect and promote New York City’s natural areas.
- Posted March 18, 2019
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Underwater Webcam Citizen Science Project Monitoring Marine Life
With the help of an underwater webcam, a project in Gibraltar is crowd-sourcing observations of marine life in a protected area.
- Posted January 28, 2019
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Learning at Biological Field Stations Across America
Recent research explores how scientists integrate education and community outreach into their work at biological field stations across America.
- Posted January 4, 2019
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TMACOG Program Empowers Teachers to Bring Water Quality to Classrooms
The TMACOG program helps teachers foster environmental stewardship in students, both in and out of the classroom, through monitoring water quality.
- Posted October 18, 2018
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Hoosier Riverwatch Recruiting More Citizen Scientists
The Hoosier Riverwatch Program is training more volunteers to monitor local waterways and share their data with the program online.
- Posted August 22, 2018
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Upper Oconee Watershed Network Celebrates 20 Years of Citizen Science
The Upper Oconee Watershed Network recently celebrated 20 years of water sampling and citizen science in Georgia.
- Posted July 25, 2018
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Citizen Science Water Monitoring Program Empowers the Public
The Virginia Tech citizen science water monitoring program that began in Flint has received new money for ongoing work.
- Posted July 13, 2018
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Tweeting Ospreys: The Bay of Quinte Remedial Action Plan at Work
A remedial action plan for the Bay of Quinte has citizen scientists Tweeting data about the location of osprey nests to protect the species and ecosystem.
- Posted April 25, 2018
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Citizen Scientists, Researchers Band Together to Save Buzzards Bay
Buzzards Bay Coalition shows the power of community involvement in protecting natural areas. Scientists and local volunteers actively monitor Bay health.
- Posted January 5, 2018
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Nonprofit Kick-Starts Water Data Gathering In Nepal Valley
Nonprofit organization S4W-Nepal uses smartphone technology, citizen scientists, and DIY equipment to gather water data in the Kathmandu Valley.
- Posted October 13, 2017
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Riverkeeper Initiative Tackles Water Monitoring, Activism And Education
Coosa River Basin Initiative takes the lead as the guardian of Upper Coosa River Basin, protecting wildlife and drinking water.
- Posted September 29, 2017
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Boise River Watershed Watch Shows Volunteers River Issues
The Boise River Watershed Watch program is an increasingly popular citizen science program teaching volunteers about the river’s health and water quality.
- Posted October 24, 2016
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Invasive Green Crab Found By Washington Citizen Scientists
Citizen scientists volunteering with the Washington Sea Grant have found an invasive green crab on San Juan Island, the first sighting in inland waters.
- Posted September 27, 2016
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Wabash Sampling Blitz Shows Usefulness Of Citizen Science
Using the Wabash Sampling Blitz as a test case, a Purdue University study finds the usefulness of water quality data gathered by citizen scientists.
- Posted June 22, 2016
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Snapshot Wisconsin Combines Cameras, GPS, Citizen Science
The Snapshot Wisconsin project looks to document wildlife around the state with more than 4,000 GPS-tagged cameras and satellite data.
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Ancient Citizen Scientists Captured Early Signs Of Global Warming
Data taken centuries ago on two bodies of water, Finland’s Tome River and Japan’s Lake Suwa, show some of the same early signs of global warming. The data taken by Finnish merchants and Japanese Shinto priests, respectively,...
- Posted May 18, 2016
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Citizen Scientists Team Up To Sample Massachusetts’ Buzzards Bay
Volunteers with Buzzards Bay Coalition use Secchi disks and sampling bottles as part of a citizen science effort to track changes in the Massachusetts bay.
- Posted February 16, 2016
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Volunteers Can Track Jellyfish Through Citizen Science Website
A lot of scientific theories hold that a warming ocean has increased jellyfish blooms around the world. But more observations are needed to confirm whether or not that is actually the case. These observations typically require renting...
- Posted December 10, 2015
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Citizen Scientists Can Help Study A Wintry Lake Tahoe
An app developed at the University of California, Davis’ Tahoe Environmental Research Center is letting citizen scientists collect valuable winter-time data on Lake Tahoe, according to a release from the school. The data collected will help researchers...
- Posted November 24, 2015
