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Excuse Me, Have You Seen A Shark?
Photo Credit: Barry Peters via Wikimedia CommonsProject: SharkBase Sharks: Fast, fierce, and fascinating, they, and their ocean-going relatives, chimaeras and rays, are an important part of the marine...
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Find The Children Of The Lodz Ghetto
Photo Credit: German Federal Archive via Wikimedia CommonsProject. Children of the Lodz GhettoDuring World War, II, the Lodz Ghetto, also known in German as the Ghetto Litzmannstadt, was originally...
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So, Just How Good Are You At Puzzles?
Photo Credit: Johnbod via Wikimedia CommonsProject: The Pictish PuzzleThe Picts were a group of people that lived in Scotland during the Late Iron Age. You're probably familiar with their signature...
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Release Your Inner Climatologist
Photo Credit: NOAA via Wikimedia CommonsProject: Cyclone CenterClimatology is a fiendishly difficult field of study. There are so many factors to consider, and in many cases, we don’t have a lot of...
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Surfers Can Catch Data While They're Catching Waves
Surferniall62/FlickrCC by SA 2.0Soon surfers could help monitor the ocean's health.Surfers are particularly attuned to the sea, keeping an eye out for the best waves. But soon, they could help gather...
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Was There An Aurora Near You?
Photo Credit: Senior Airman Joshua Strang via Wikimedia CommonsProject: AurorasaurusAurorae are one of nature's greatest light shows: beautiful dancing patterns of colored light dancing across the sky....
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Space: Not Just For Rocket Scientists Any More
Photo Credit: NASA on The CommonsProjects: Spacehack, SpaceGAMBIT, NASA Open Source Software, NASA's Data PortalFor a long time now, space exploration has been the preserve of a tiny group of highly...
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A Little Swordplay, A Little Wordplay?
Photo Credit: Anonymous on The CommonsProject: A Medieval SwordA magnificent sword is the subject of a public appeal.In a recent exhibit called Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy, the British Library...
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At A Loss For Words? Tell Science About It
Image Credit: Chabacano via The CommonsProject: Speech ErrorsWhen you're on a roll, there are few things more annoying than suddenly being tripped up by an inability to remember a specific word. That's...
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To Everything There Is a Season
Photo Credit: Tony Webster via Wikimedia CommonsProject: Season SpotterIt can be hard to remember, as you get older: were September days always as hot as this? When did the winter winds start blowing...
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Smile! Your Garden Is On Camera
Photo Credit: Tony Alter via Wikimedia CommonsProject: NaturebytesIf you have ever watched the BBC Planet Earth series (and if you haven't, why not?!), you know that some of the really interesting bits...
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Researchers Seek Citizen Scientists To Scan The Beaks Of Every Bird Species...
A 3D scan of a robin's bill.Natural History MuseumIn 1845, Charles Darwin used the shape and size of finch beaks on the Galapagos Islands as evidence for his theory of evolution. Now, a team of...
View ArticleWhite House Hosting Forum on Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing
Watch the forum live at 8:10 a.m. at www.whitehouse.gov/liveThe US Federal Government is reaffirming its commitment to both open government and open science, as it announces new policies on citizen...
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Start Your Own Citizen Science Project
Photo Credit: Bureau of Land ManagementProject: AnecdataA new platform billing itself as "next-generation citizen science" is promising to make it easy for anyone who wants to collect or share...
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Codifying Your Health
Photo Credit: Jost-H. Hübner via Wikimedia CommonsProject: The Human Diagnosis ProjectWe live in the age of Big Data, or so the pundits would have you believe. And yet, amazingly, very few projects...
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The GMO Corn Experiment
Photo Credit: http://www.biofortified.org/Project: GMOExperiment.comGenetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been around since the early 1980s, and have proven popular enough with farmers that by...
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Making Data Shareable
Photo Credit: Simos Xenitellis via Wikimedia CommonsProject: CitSci.orgWhile the citizen science movement has grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade, there is still much untapped possibility. A...
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Putting Christmas Gifts To Good Use
Photo Credit: NASA via Wikimedia CommonsIf you're getting someone on your Christmas list a mobile device with a camera, why not also tell them how they can use it to do Earth science research? This...
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Save The Manatee
Photo Credit: Chris Muenzer via Wikimedia CommonsProject: Save the ManateeManatees, also known as sea cows, are gentle, slow-moving herbivores that like to paddle about in shallow, slow-moving rivers,...
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Going Batty For Science
Photo Credit: Larisa Bishop-Boros via Wikimedia CommonsProject: iBats, Bat DetectiveFor reasons I have never understood, bats have a bad reputation. Perhaps it is because some of them look a bit...
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