How can you easily integrate
citizen science into the classroom?
«It definitely opened my mind» to incorporating
citizen science into her research — and gave her the tools and network to make it happen, she adds.
Not exact matches
Shedd Aquarium's conservation research team launched a
citizen science project this spring in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin - Madison Center for Limnology and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations
into Great Lakes streams.
Only by pulling back the veil of secrecy, informing
citizens of the atrocities that their tax money is funding and holding experimenters accountable for abusing animals in the name of
science when more reliable, cruelty - free options exist, can we hope to bring scientific research
into the modern age.
In a similar vein, the National
Science Foundation's (NSF's) Task Force on National Workforce Policies for Science and Engineering (NWP) is expected to present a draft report to the National Science Board (NSB) in November that includes recommendations to «guide national policy toward the goal of drawing more U.S. citizens into careers in science and engineering, while continuing to compete globally for scientific talent,» according to the minutes of the October NSB m
Science Foundation's (NSF's) Task Force on National Workforce Policies for
Science and Engineering (NWP) is expected to present a draft report to the National Science Board (NSB) in November that includes recommendations to «guide national policy toward the goal of drawing more U.S. citizens into careers in science and engineering, while continuing to compete globally for scientific talent,» according to the minutes of the October NSB m
Science and Engineering (NWP) is expected to present a draft report to the National
Science Board (NSB) in November that includes recommendations to «guide national policy toward the goal of drawing more U.S. citizens into careers in science and engineering, while continuing to compete globally for scientific talent,» according to the minutes of the October NSB m
Science Board (NSB) in November that includes recommendations to «guide national policy toward the goal of drawing more U.S.
citizens into careers in
science and engineering, while continuing to compete globally for scientific talent,» according to the minutes of the October NSB m
science and engineering, while continuing to compete globally for scientific talent,» according to the minutes of the October NSB meeting.
1999 Berkeley launches the
citizen science project SETI@home, which lets your computer, in its downtime, dip
into SERENDIP data.
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.
That's unfortunate because using
citizen science in studies would not only highlight volunteers» role in
science, it could also could attract more investment
into future research, said Rick Bonney, director of program development and evaluation at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who reviewed Cooper's study.
Instead, they have been propelled by a conviction that the country needs more U.S.
citizens going
into science and engineering because those graduates will benefit the nation in countless ways.
Although
citizen science initiatives encourage individuals from all walks of life to get out
into nature, greater engagement is needed to bring diverse populations to national parks, argued Theodore Roosevelt IV, an investment banker and conservationist and the great - grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, who signed
into law the creation of five National Parks.
Albeit the implementation details of the immigration ban
into the United States, which applies to
citizens of Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Syria remain ambiguous, some of the initial consequences are already evident in the field of
science: Numerous scientists on global assignments were not granted entry
into the United States.
Project Violet is a «
citizen science» project, and we want to include students as
citizens who can get involved as well by diving
into the learning process about cancer, research,
science and exploration.
Explore these NASA educational activities and
citizen science opportunities that libraries may be interested in incorporating
into programming in 2013 and beyond.
It provides insight
into new paradigms of Open
Science and Innovation applied to space data, which are characterized by openness, access to large volume of complex data, wide availability of new community tools, new techniques for big data analytics such as Artificial Intelligence, unprecedented level of computing power, and new types of collaboration among researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and
citizen scientists.
Every Friday our Research Team goes around the island and collects the data sheets and week submits it
into multiple partnering
citizen science projects including Gili Eco Trust, SharkBase, eOceans, and Shark Guardian.
For an example of how that «
citizen science» can really work, look at what Ron Broberg and Zeke Hausfeather are doing with the weather station data — they aren't sitting around declaring that «it can't be done» or that the GISTEMP / CRU / NCDC methods are fixed, they are going
into the data, making choices, seeing what impact they have and determining what is robust.
So now the question is no longer about what would have prompted questions about skeptic scientists» funding to come up at «an obscure utility hearing in Minnesota», it's about why an assistant A.G. would insert material
into a public hearing against some of its expert
science witnesses concerning an industry corruption insinuation based on a suggestion coming from a private
citizen who had nothing to do with the topic at all just eight or so weeks earlier.
Therefore, the signatories hereto repudiate the letter issued by the 375 activists as reflecting not scientific truth but quasi-religious dogma and totalitarian error; we urge the voters to disregard that regrettable and anti-scientific letter; and we invite every
citizen to make up his or her own mind whom to elect to the nation's highest office without fear of the multifarious bugaboos conjured
into terrifying but scientifically unjustifiable existence by the totalitarian activists who have for decades so disrespected, disgraced and disfigured climate
science.
In one study, he and his colleagues packaged the basic
science of climate change
into fake newspaper articles bearing two very different headlines --» Scientific Panel Recommends Anti-Pollution Solution to Global Warming» and «Scientific Panel Recommends Nuclear Solution to Global Warming» — and then tested how
citizens with different values responded.
Has become a story of
citizen journalism gone awry, for the blogosphere is littered with amateur writers who have been duped
into fighting against global warming by slick websites with official - sounding names like the
Science and Public Policy Institute and the Friends of
Science.
The «man - made hysteria» associated with the global - warming fraud is a real threat to mankind in the sense that it a) has the potential to, and in fact is, turning millions of gullible individuals
into fanatical, anti-human ideologues, b) diverting precious time, money and resources that could be more usefully spent elsewhere
into the ridiculous and unscientific attempts by environmental extremists to «control the climate» via enforced — through government legislation and burdensome taxes — behaviour modification of supposedly free
citizens, and c) giving the practice of
science a bad reputation amongst the general populace, which in turn has been a major contributing factor to the general decline in the understanding of basic scientific concepts, and reality in general, that we have been witnessing over the last 40 years or so (ex.