Citizen Science Synthesis: Observations from Science Online 2013.
This is a guest post from Dr. Holly Menninger, the Director of Public Science for Your Wild Life, a citizen science and outreach program based at NC State University. An entomologist by training, she’s...
View ArticleLessons from Ants to Stars: An Egalitarian Scientific World, One Name at a Time
After students on an expedition in the Peruvian Andes discovered a new species of bird, beautiful with startlingly bright colors, they assigned it the Latin name of Capito fitzpatricki, after the...
View ArticleCoop’s Citizen Sci Scoop: The nine simultaneous lives of cats
Discover Magazine’s September print edition featured an infographic called “20 Things You Didn’t Know About Cats.” Felines seem to lead elusive, mysterious lives. Fortunately, the citizen science...
View ArticleCoop’s Scoop: Citizen Science in Schools
Mountain Goat Survey (photo by Glacier NPS) For several decades, citizen science has advanced research agendas while propelling informal science education outside the classroom. Citizen science has...
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