Sentences with phrase «by citizen scientists»

Thanks to the data provided by citizen scientists, the researchers were able show that the diversity of bird beaks expanded early in the group's evolutionary history, around the time other dinosaurs died out.

K2 - 138 is the first exoplanet discovery by citizen scientists participating in the Exoplanet Explorers project on the Zooniverse platform.

Shark data collected by citizen scientists may be as reliable as data collected using automated tools, according to results published April 23, 2014, in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Gabriel Vianna from The University of Western Australia and colleagues.

The authors suggest that the same variation in shark abundance was detectable by both citizen scientists and telemetry.

Massimo Marengo, an Iowa State University associate professor of physics and astronomy, wondered when he saw all the buzz about the mysterious star found by citizen scientists on the Planet Hunters website.

As for the name «Steve» given by the citizen scientists?

He and the rest of the Galaxy Zoo science team used classifications provided by citizen scientists to select spiral galaxies across the Universe for the study.

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

Madden et al. identified over 600 of these species by genotyping house dust collected by citizen scientists from over 700 homes across the United States, revealing the presence of both expected species, such as cockroaches, and unexpected species, such as parasitic wasps.

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.

This feature of the northern lights, recently photographed and named by citizen scientists in Canada, now has a scientific explanation.

This JunoCam image, processed by citizen scientist Bruce Lemons, show a chaotic scene of swirling storms up to the size of Mars against a bluish backdrop.

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.

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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.

See Andrew Morrison, «Mass Media Use by Adults,» American Behavioral Scientist, September / October 1979, pp. 71 - 93; Frederick Williams, Herbert Dordick, and Frederick Horstmann, «Where Citizens Go for Information,» Journal of Communication, Winter 1977, pp. 95 - 99.

The proposed rule follows recommendations from the National Organic Standards Board, a federal advisory committee of 15 citizens appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture that includes representation from the various stakeholders involved in the organic industry, including farmers, handlers, a retailer, a certifier, scientists, a natural resource conservationist and a consumer.

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.

Information collected contributes to more than 20 years of data collected by Knapp and citizen scientists to monitor the health of the endangered Andros Island iguana.

Led by Dr. Chuck Knapp, vice president of conservation research at Shedd Aquarium, the team of citizen scientists explored several cays on Andros Island in search of adult and juvenile iguanas for the aquarium's mark - recapture studies.

You can become one of our citizen scientists by helping to document the presence of Baltimore orioles in your neighborhood or community.

As the full impact of an immigration directive issued by Trump on 27 January took hold, blocking and stranding non-U.S. citizen students and scientists from seven countries from entering the United States for 90 days, AAAS CEO Rush Holt issued the following statement on 28 January underscoring the necessity to keep the nation's doors open to scientists and students from around the globe:

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.

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.

Geospatial data scientist Lea Shanley, 2008 - 09 Congressional Fellow sponsored by ASA / CSSA / SSSA in the office of Sen. Bill Nelson, has devoted much of her career to citizen science.

Bioinformaticist Andrew Su (center front) has launched a crowdsourcing campaign to find game - changing links in biomedical literature by using volunteer «citizen scientists.»

Our online content is delivered by New Scientist's editors and journalists, citizen journalists and external bloggers.

By playing Digital Fishers, citizen scientists help researchers gather data from video, and unveil the mechanisms shaping the animal communities inhabiting the deep.

The citizen scientists discovered the planet by examining data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft.

Only 24 percent had been given the opportunity to participate in a citizen science - type field campaign, which is defined as the collection and analysis of data relating to the natural world by members of the general public, typically in collaboration with professional scientists.

Once this is done, citizen scientists can contribute their observation data, images and video to the organization's database, which is viewed by researchers as well as citizen scientists.

More was one of the three astrophysicists who participated in a roundtable discussion, hosted by The Kavli Foundation, about the growing role that citizen scientists are playing in astrophysics.

As planned by the Juno team, citizen scientists took the raw images of the flyby from the JunoCam site and processed them, providing a higher level of detail than available in their raw form.

Although scientists are considered international citizens, they are still bounded by rules and regulations implemented by funding agencies, research institutions, and political will of their nations.

By identifying images with changing leaves, blooming flowers, and other easy - to - recognize features, citizen scientists can contribute to a better understanding of how plants are responding to climate change

Scientists integrated tarantula DNA into the study alongside anatomy, geography and behavior gleaned from spiders that were gathered by the researchers, contributed by «citizen - scientists» and borrowed from museum collections, to deliver the most comprehensive overview of tarantulas ever assembled, according to the new study, published online Feb. 4 in the journaScientists integrated tarantula DNA into the study alongside anatomy, geography and behavior gleaned from spiders that were gathered by the researchers, contributed by «citizen - scientists» and borrowed from museum collections, to deliver the most comprehensive overview of tarantulas ever assembled, according to the new study, published online Feb. 4 in the journascientists» and borrowed from museum collections, to deliver the most comprehensive overview of tarantulas ever assembled, according to the new study, published online Feb. 4 in the journal ZooKeys.

By identifying the tag number of each condor and describing its behavior, citizen scientists will help researchers understand condor social networks and other factors that may be related to lead poisoning.

In high school, inspired by a NASA brochure titled «So You Want to Be a Rocket Scientist,» Chang - Díaz wrote a letter of inquiry, but Houston fired back a crushing reply: NASA careers were open only to U.S. citizens.

By contributing experience of the earthquake, either immediately afterward, or whenever it is possible for to do so, citizen scientists will have made a contribution to the scientific body of information about this earthquake.

By participating in Project: Play with Your Dog, citizen scientists are providing valuable information into the nuances and intricacies of our relationships with dogs.

Wayne J. Riley, MD, MPH, MBA, MACP, president of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, said, «These findings reflect the breadth of subjects pursued by scientists at SUNY Downstate and illustrate how funded research is important to keeping our citizens both healthy and safe.»

Halloween may be over for another year, but citizen scientists can still help their professional peers better understand these nocturnal creatures by listening to recordings and identifying different bat calls.

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

The support of this extraordinary lineup of outstanding institutions — and of visionary leaders like Ernst - Ludwig Winnaker, president of the DFG, Reinhard Grunwald, executive officer of the DFG, and Rolf Hoffmann of the DAAK — as well as the intense use of the Web site by tomorrow's scientists and scientifically trained citizens provides us all with enormous motivation to serve you better.

He is hoping that this method might be turned into an easy tool that can be used by consumers, citizen scientists and enforcement agencies to quickly detect fish that have been illegally caught with cyanide, which would hopefully drive down the trade.

They argue that scientists are being led by the nose by citizens and that when you have ordinary people formulating research questions and hypothesizing or being involved in the study, it makes it illegitimate, it takes away the good science.

By a 20 - percentage point margin, citizens are more likely than scientists to favor offshore oil drilling.

During the past two years, citizen scientists have helped locate more than 500 million lunar craters by using an app called MoonMappers.

The nests containing plastic were among more than 200 artificial nest boxes monitored by MacIvor as part of a large - scale investigation of the ecology of urban bees and wasps, a project involving numerous citizen scientists.

Founded in the 1950s, the group is currently run by two solid - citizen scientists with commercial aims, Don Griffith and Mark Solak, who have spent their careers working in privately funded weather modification efforts around the country and the world.