Sentences with phrase «also citizen scientists»

I am also a citizen scientist...

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Of course I also spend time taking pictures of the beautiful world, spending time with my wife, reading books or magazines, playing video games, enjoying a great meal, engaging in citizen scientist projects, spending time in thought or contemplation about the universe or our planet, or in other words generally loving and enjoying life!

Collaborating with Citizen Scientists by Lucas Laursen, 25 June 2010 Scientists and industry professionals are not your only options for collaborators; volunteer citizens can also help you collect and even analyze data.

While some citizen science programs are modeled on the idea that volunteers are strictly there to learn from professionals, Shirk said citizen scientists also want to be part of a discovery and help gather data relevant to a problem that interests them in calling upon programs to embrace learning together.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

Lintott, who is also a co-founder of Galaxy Zoo and the principal investigator for the Zooniverse citizen science web portal, added: «Plus, a lot of unusual discoveries will need to be followed up, and I'd like to see citizen scientists get further into the process of analysis.

Also during the summer, the lab teams up with the National Park Service for BioTrails: Participating citizen scientists can either collect samples in the field or analyze them in the lab using DNA barcoding.

«It also allows us more freedom to engage local citizen scientists in the effort to save the species around them.»

It was soon also flagged by three other citizen scientists from Russia, Serbia, and the United States.

The researcher have also created an online tutorial to educate citizen scientists about the project.

The paper also highlights how so - called citizen science projects provide scientists with invaluable information with which to track the spread of ladybirds and other species.

But we will reach an and involve much larger groups: Our results will find their way to the courses we teach and we will also build up a team of Other Earths Ambassadors — citizen scientists excited by the search for life on other planets and eager to contribute.

Milton also spent a day visiting NASA headquarters, talking to scientists and managers about how citizen science can help NASA.

You'll also notice that there are eight citizen scientists listed as co-authors on the paper: Joseph R. Biggs, Milton Bosch, Katharina Doll, Hugo A. Durantini - Luca, Alexandru Enachioaie, Phillip Griffith, Sr., Michiharu Hyogo, and Fernanda Piniero.

The Kincumber students have also been contributing to their local community by becoming citizen scientists, taking part in the Feather Map of Australia Project.

«That so many of them are also devoting time to mentoring and other forms of community service speaks volumes about their potential for leadership, not only as scientists but as model citizens.»

Maybe it's time for a broader review of the panel's procedures and products, one involving not only the scientists conducting the assessments but also the public in some way (after all, the citizens of the countries that created the climate panel pay the bills).

Not only he's a good scientist and a conscientious citizen, he is also a rational thinker, unlike so many of his ultra-liberal colleagues in academe.

I'll also quote some social scientists who specialize in environmental risk and response who see little hope that heat waves will be the element that prompts citizens to support a strong climate bill or change behaviors in ways that cut combustion of fossil fuels.

But he also urged scientists to take steps themselves to engage with citizens and leaders.

As scientists are also citizens, this also raises their heckles.

Pt 4, «The Wunsch / RealClimate Thing»: In this instance, we are asked to believe that a common citizen, Dave Rado, outraged over lies in «The Great Global Warming Swindle», somehow also knew one of the «seemingly skeptic» scientists in the video had been hoodwinked to appear in it, and that the scientist this confirmed this via a direct email response regarding the inquiry Rado sent mere hours after watching the video.

Roddy, in terms of judging paleo papers, I would rank Steve McIntyre well above myself, and probably also any number of citizen scientists that have gotten engaged on this topic.

It has also been strongly embraced by some leading climate scientists, such as former NASA researcher James Hansen, and such advocacy groups as Citizens» Climate Lobby.

I also have a series of RClimate tools using R to help fellow citizen scientists do their own climate trend analysis link.

Deeply isolated in their own tiny academic bubble only talking to like minded individuals also inside of that bubble where the real word rarely intrudes, I doubt that very many of these scientists realise just how stupid and even imbecilic and disposable they are starting to appear to the ordinary citizen on the street particularly when they try to sell a bill of goods like those adjusted and etc and etc temperatures from a half dozen or more decades past as the real temperatures of the times and then change those same temperatures or remove then the next day or week or whatever and then change then yet again and again.

The data collected for this information packed title not only comes from scientists, but also naturalists, concerned citizens, and children.

A highlight of the book (and a hallmark of this field) is that data are being collected not just by scientists but also by naturalists, children, and other concerned citizens.

The beautiful, full - color photographs illustrate both the challenges that nature is facing and also what we, as «citizen scientists,» can do to help change the world.

The authors are also careful to show how kids around the world have been a part of the movement by collecting data as «citizen scientists.»

The authors also make it a point to showcase students, termed citizen scientists,» who assist in various national conservation programs within their schools.