{"id":347,"date":"2023-06-19T00:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T00:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steamready.org\/?p=347"},"modified":"2023-06-19T00:10:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T00:10:01","slug":"what-is-citizen-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steamready.org\/index.php\/what-is-citizen-science\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Citizen Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Citizen science engages <strong>ordinary people of any age<\/strong> who volunteer their time to participate in scientific projects, conduct experiments, and collect data in order to solve real-world problems and questions. Typically citizen science works as a <strong>collaboration between professional scientists and the public<\/strong>, and it helps contribute to a multitude of discoveries around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citizen scientists are involved in a <strong>variety of different fields<\/strong> including statistics, psychology, ecology, genetics, astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and more. They work on projects such as water quality monitoring, wildlife censuses, non-native plant identification, and fossil excavations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are a list of citizen science opportunities that you can pursue!:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Project Finders and Collections:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenscience.gov\/#\">CitizenScience.gov<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scistarter.org\/finder?active=true\">SciStarter<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/\">Zooniverse<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thrivingearthexchange.org\/projects\/\">Thriving Earth Exchange<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idigbio.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Citizen_Science_Organizations_and_Online_Lists_of_Citizen_Science_Projects\">Integrated Digitized Biocollections<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/work-with-us\/volunteer-opportunities-citizen-scientists\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/citizenscience\">National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usanpn.org\/\">National Phenology Network<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Specific Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/conservation\/science\/christmas-bird-count\">Audubon Christmas Bird Count<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/celebrateurbanbirds.org\/\">Celebrate Urban Birds<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nestwatch.org\/\">NestWatch<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horseshoecrab.org\/act\/count.html\">The Horseshoe Count<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naba.org\/butter_counts.html\">Butterfly Counts<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwatermonitoringday.org\/\">EarthEcho Water Challenge<\/a> (previously World Water Monitoring Challenge)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdcount.org\/\">Great Backyard Bird Count<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mlmp.org\/\">Monarch Larva Monitoring Project<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/budburst.org\/\">BudBurst<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cocorahs.org\/Content.aspx?page=involved\">Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/zookeeper\/galaxy-zoo\/\">Galaxy Zoo<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/feederwatch.org\/\">Project FeederWatch<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/home\">eBird<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eorhawaii.org\/\">Eyes of the Reef Hawai\u2019i<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/globeatnight.org\/\">Globe at Night<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.akronzoo.org\/frogwatch\">FrogWatch USA<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/\">iNaturalist<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen science engages ordinary people of any age who volunteer their time to participate in scientific projects, conduct experiments, and collect data in order to solve real-world problems and questions. Typically citizen science works as a collaboration between professional scientists and the public, and it helps contribute to a multitude of discoveries around the world. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steamready.org\/index.php\/what-is-citizen-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is Citizen Science?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamready.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamready.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamready.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamready.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamready.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steamready.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/steamready.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamready.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamready.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamready.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamready.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}