by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Activists get technical in a story by Wayt Gibbs for Anthropocene magazine. Low-cost instruments and abundant ingenuity are democratizing surveillance, Wayt writes. The examples are brilliant: crowdsourcing the identification and location of fracking ponds with...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
For readers on your gift list, Adrienne Ross Scanlan has a new book, Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild. In this just-released work from Mountaineers Books, Adrienne tells of creating a home in the Pacific Northwest by working as a citizen...
by Matt Vivion | Oct 28, 2015 | Past Events
NSWA members and guests joined Ariel Waldman on Oct. 28 to discuss citizen science and hacking the space program. The chat followed her talk at Ada’s Technical Books. Waldman worked at NASA, founded Spacehack.org, and now organizes events to advocate for...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 2, 2015 | ScienceWire
Jerry Joyce, of Moon Joyce Resources, coauthored a recent paper in Peer J, an up-and-coming open access biological and medical sciences journal. The crowd-available article, “Using citizen-science data to identify local hotspots of seabird occurrence,” was also...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 3, 2014 | ScienceWire
You don’t need a diploma to be a scientist, writes Ashley Braun @ashleybraun, ashleybraun.com. You just need enthusiasm, dedication, and an interest in a research topic ranging from archaeology to geomorphology. Find your citizen science passion in...
