Sentences with phrase «being citizen scientists»

It was an engaging way to get students excited about being citizen scientists!

In uBiome's case it was citizen scientists — regular people who dig science and like to learn about themselves and apply that knowledge to their own health and other people with similar interests.

Nick Milkovich is a citizen scientist who recently participated in a Water Quality Snapshot Day event in...

The paper lists the user names of everyone who helped classify one of the new disks — and you may have noticed the eight of the authors of this paper are citizen scientists: Joseph Biggs, Milton Bosch, Tadeas Cernohous, Hugo A. Durantini Luca, Michiharu Hyogo, Lily Lau Wan Wah, Art Piipuu, Fernanda Pineiro.

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«It is time for scientists, science enthusiasts, and concerned citizens to come together to make ourselves heard!»

«In our case we started off with consumers and citizen scientists, understanding the microbiome, and we found something in our data set that was really stunning and valuable,» she says.

At the center of the initiative is a website where «citizen scientists» can suggest problems that could potentially be addressed through emerging technologies, such as data analytics, satellite technologies, or the Internet of things, McCauley says.

One company, Nano Vision, is already operative on a height that will concede every chairman or «global citizen scientist,» as they say, to attend in creation serve advancements.

Debate on how God can work in an evolutionary universe is unlikely to go away, since most scientists reject the notion that God works in the world while nearly all citizens accept it.

It's not even true, as some excessively literal students of Plato today seem to think, that we're either detached philosopher - scientists or deluded citizens.

If you were a scientist hoping to isolate the fan gene, Alabama would make the perfect laboratory... A recent poll by the Mobile Register found that 90 percent of the state's citizens describe themselves as college football fans.

Many thoughtful citizens, including eminent scientists, oppose the deciphering and altering of the human gene structure, and are appalled by the proposed commercial uses of knowledge gained from such activities.

As an alternative to enacting legal controls over reproductive technology, a national commission of scientists, doctors and citizens is needed, a commission that could develop voluntary ethical guidelines.

Whether it is exploring one of our trails, participating in an educational program, attending a summer camp, becoming a citizen scientist, or advocating for sound environmental policy — there is a place for everyone.

Based in large part on data provided by Mass Audubon's citizen scientists, the Eastern Whip - poor - will was recently listed as a Species of Special Concern in Massachusetts.

We'll have talks in the SECU Daily Planet Theater so you can discover how citizen scientists are making a difference.

All across Illinois, citizen scientists are monitoring butterflies and providing scientists with critical data that paints a picture of where butterflies are thriving and how populations and habitats are changing.

Going through the Shedd Aquarium Great Lakes professional development has been a wonderful experience for me as a teacher and a citizen scientist.

Shedd is a collaborator with Global FinPrint, which recruits citizen scientists to help fill a critical information gap about the declining number of sharks and rays in the world's oceans.

The goal of the Mass Audubon Oriole Project is to enlist as many citizen scientists as possible in building a database about the breeding status of these magnificent birds.

In effect, this is an example of something Princeton political scientist Rory Truex calls «representation within bounds» — when deputies are encouraged to act as genuine citizen representatives, but only regarding areas outside the core concerns of the regime, including political reform.

Democratic republicanism should support Citizen Scientist (An NHS - University initiative being trialled where citizens have a close relationship with their doctor and are given equipment to record medical and dietry etc information about their lives, and send it back to the doctor, for their own good, and to collectively find cures and preventions for diseases for society).

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.

On June 29, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner sent a letter to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano that expressed concerns «over the recent indictments of six scientists and a government official» because they «failed to alert the population of L'Aquila of an impending earthquake» despite the fact that there is «no accepted scientific method for earthquake prediction that can be reliably used to warn citizens of impending disaster.»

While many researchers think of citizen science as a way to engage children and teenagers, many of citizen scientists are adults, some of whom bring scientific expertise from other fields, she said.

Today, the collection of similar data about wildlife and the environment is needed and citizen scientist programs offer a low - cost yet scientifically rigorous way to gather such information.

The program's goal is to train volunteers to serve as citizen scientists, documenting shoreline conditions along Alabama's shoreline using GPS coordinates and alerting officials and COAST partners to the presence of oil and / or affected wildlife.

The group of five planets, all smaller than Neptune, was found by citizen scientists scouring data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which measures light from distant stars.

By designating a particular day for such activities, citizen scientists feel part of a larger effort and are more likely make a commitment to participate, he said.

AAAS» first president, William Redfield, was «a citizen scientist of the first rank,» the owner of a steamship company whose observations form the basis for the field of meteorology, Holt said.

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.

For instance, weather reports collected by citizen scientists more than 100 years ago continue to be analyzed, he said.

The team is hoping the citizen scientists will eventually curate thousands of articles selected for their potential relevance to NGLY1 deficiency.

All had been searching for like - minded citizen scientists in New York City but had come up empty — at least until they logged on to the DIYbio Google group for amateur biologists.

For a variety of reasons, some of which go back to the fact that for 50 years now in schools we have been teaching science primarily for future scientists rather than for every future member of society and every future citizen.

He forged a path as a citizen scientist in 1980, when he was 33 years old, after making a fortune melting and refining metals.

A camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft is giving citizen scientists a crack at discovering never - before - seen features of Jupiter.

I am a cadet in the Old Weather Navy, a joint U.S.-U.K. web - based project that recruits citizen scientists to decipher the climate data recorded in old ship logs.

That's the forecast for Jupiter's south pole — a region never seen before but quickly coming into focus with the help of citizen scientists.

«Unraveling the mysteries of our universe, while contributing to the advancement of astronomy, is without a doubt a dream come true,» says Hugo Durantini Luca from Argentina, one of eight citizen scientist co-authors.

All federal fellowships are limited to U.S. citizens and permanent residents, but disease - specific private philanthropies permit applications from foreign scientists.

The citizen scientists were indispensable for this research project, says Karine Prince, who is a postdoctoral research associate at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and is the lead author of the new report.

SKY SHIMMERS A mauve and green streak, lightning the sky at Helena Lake Ranch in Canada, was captured in this video by a citizen scientist.

This month, however, Next Wave is presenting an in - depth look at two new Canadian training opportunities for eager young scientists with a thirst for technology commercialization, whether they're citizens, permanent residents, or foreign nationals.

And some California surfers are becoming citizen scientists, thanks to «smartfins,» surfboard - mounted sensors that collect coastal ocean temperature data.

«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.»

Interested citizen scientists should contact Woods Hole [[email protected]] with the details of their location and how they can be reached.

Or citizen scientists can provide support directly to work being done at one of the locations listed on their Web site.

«In preparing Indicators 2004,» wrote the board in A Companion to Science and Engineering Indicators, 2004, «we have observed a troubling decline in the number of U.S. citizens who are training to become scientists and engineers, whereas the number of jobs requiring science and engineering (S&E) training continues to grow.»

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