To untangle the relationship between climate change, fall foliage and national park visitors, researchers are asking tourists to check their old photo albums for snapshots that could hold valuable data.
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Governments need better information on which types of plastic generate the most pollution — citizens can help.
The Voynich Manuscript has researchers, the media, and the public hooked. But pseudo-explanations for the book’s ‘code’ reveals a serious problem with society’s relationship with science.
If you are bitten by a tick, you need to find out what species it was, fast. A research team has developed a website to help people in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick do just that.
A collection of millions of bird sightings has identified the best places to invest in conservation.
Volunteers can contribute data to maps that help cyclists choose their routes and let planners know how city cycling can be improved.
Camera traps allow citizen scientists to peek into the hidden lives of Britain’s mammals.
Urban pollutants are a health concern in growing cities. Scientists are turning to honey bees to help monitor contaminants in soil, water, air and plants.
For decades, New England students took field trips out into the Long Island Sound. Their data show how quickly the sound is warming, leading to fewer American lobster, rock crab and winter flounder.
By finding out more about the cat flea, researchers could maybe identify better pest control measures.
Citizens can be recruited in addressing data deficits.
The smoke from wood-burning stoves and fireplaces contributes to air pollution and poor health.
Nurdles are a raw feedstock used to make most of the plastic products we use everyday, but they’re flooding the ocean as “mermaid tears”.
Volunteers from all over the world are taking part in a citizen science project to help scientists work out how bad microplastic pollution really is.
Citizen science game offered clues to why shore crabs get greener as they grow.
Fall is peak activity time for adult blacklegged ticks, increasing the risk of tick bites on both people and pets.
When people form local networks to take care of resources such as drinking water, they strengthen their communities. Technology can support these efforts and promote learning and innovation.
The 2018 Australian Museum Eureka Prize winners include astrophysicist and science communicator Alan Duffy and the citizen science app QuestaGame.
Elusive and mysterious by nature, ordinary people are revealing the secrets of the UK’s octopuses.
Climate change can seem far removed from our everyday lives, which is why a citizen science program measuring how frogs are dealing with a warming world is so important.
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Sector Lead, CSIRO
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Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Ecology and Evolution, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Citizen and Data Science, University of Arizona
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria and Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Associate Teaching Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science and Manager of the Joel N. Myers Weather Center, Penn State
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Chair of ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Biotechnology, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Mineral Physics, University of Cambridge
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Professor, School of Science, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Imperial College London
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Professor and Dean of Programs (Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences), University of South Australia
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Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Senior Marine Ecologist, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
