Sentences with phrase «citizen scientists across»

Image Detective spreads the significant work necessary to label all of the images out to citizen scientists across the world.

The National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is an early - winter bird census, where thousands of citizen scientists across the US, Canada and many countries in the Western Hemisphere, go out over a 24 hour period to count birds.

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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.

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.

Instead, Bernier has headed up a series of award - winning projects that bring together average citizens with scientists and policymakers to reach joint recommendations on vaccines, holding public dialogues across the country to break down boundaries between the experts and everybody else, literally putting multiple perspectives around a table.

«These scientists combined citizen science observations with data from radar, satellites and weather predictions to understand the cues birds use in their migrations across continents,» said Liz Blood, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Program.

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.

Brent Hendrixson, study co-author and chairman of the Department of Biology at Millsaps College in Mississippi, set up a Web page that allowed citizen - scientists to send the researchers hundreds of specimens from locations across the U.S., including some where tarantulas had never been collected before, Hamilton said.

By harnessing the energy of citizen scientists and land managers, Xerces has been partnering with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to compile a database of breeding monarch sightings and milkweed records across the western U.S..

With the help of citizen scientists, the research team has identified seven dust particles and residues - less than 1 millionth of a metre across - that are consistent with interstellar dust, which they have documented in an academic paper entitled «Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft» and published in the journal Science.

The day «celebrates the work of citizen scientists and the diversity of citizen science projects across the world, encourages the public to get...

NIAC partners with forward - thinking scientists, engineers and citizen inventors from across the nation to help maintain America's leadership in air and space.

Its intricacies, which often involve overlapping disciplines, confuse scientists, citizens, and reporters — even though its effects will be widespread, both in geography and across time.

Scientists, environmental leaders and hundreds of thousands of citizens across the country had urged the president to take action to protect critical habitat from oil spills, to aid the transition to a clean energy future and to help the United States meet the carbon reduction goals necessary to avert the worst effects of global climate change.

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