Sentences with phrase «citizen scientists collect»

Last summer, citizen scientists collected data on Arctic beach litter, which is detailed in a new study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Not exact matches

Doug Taron, chief curator at the Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, works with citizen scientists through the Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network in the process of collecting quantitative data on butterfly populations.

Founded in 1857 to give scientists and nature aficionados a place to study and share the specimens they collected, the Chicago Academy of Sciences developed a national and international reputation for its leadership in conservation, its collection and citizen science.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

She will use citizen scientists to collect data and track seasonal changes in both birds and bugs.

COASST sees a future in which all coastal communities contribute directly to monitoring local marine resources and ecosystem health through the establishment of a network of citizen scientists, each collecting rigorous and vital data.

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.

«Our large, comprehensive dataset could not have been collected without the participation of citizen scientists spread through monarchs» range,» says Oberhauser.

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.

Trautwein is in the midst of a multi-year project sampling arthropods (and collecting mite samples) alongside citizen scientists in homes on all seven continents, exploring the overlooked life that shares our homes and bodies on a daily basis.

Teachers, students, parents, kids, junior - scientists, senior citizens and enthusiasts of all stripes are involved in collecting ants in schoolyards and backyards using a standardized protocol to help make detailed maps of the wildlife that lives just outside our doorsteps.

«There is a $ 37 - billion - dollar - a-year industry for scientific research equipment that never saw individual users, like citizen scientists, as a market,» says Shannon Dosemagen, co-founder of DIY community Public Lab, which creates and sells tools, such as $ 10 mini-spectrometers, to collect and analyze data.

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.

With the help of citizen scientists, researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder analyzed arthropod DNA found in 732 dust samples collected from interior door frames throughout the U.S. Amid their data on many other species, the scientists found that the eastern U.S. and the West Coast are dust - mite utopias, whereas much of the western interior may be a comparative desert.

The OSSP was designed at the Lab to help local land stewards manage their properties with students who, as «citizen scientists,» learn about the scientific process while going out to the field to collect useful data.

Its first customer, the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, used the company's new mobile app to collect information from citizen scientists on sea turtles choking on plastic bags.

A soon - to - be second lab spinout, Anecdata Solutions, collects data from citizen scientists.

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 scientists let students and citizen scientists help collect data, too.

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 book argues for «citizen scientists,» and shows how young people throughout North America are collecting data to help describe our changing planet.

The neatest part about this book is its focus on children from Mexico to Siberia who are working as «citizen scientists,» performing actual experiments and collecting actual data.

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.»

Using maps and data collected, citizen scientist students can explore the work of many leading scientists as they investigate why the numbers of frogs, polar bears, or penguins are decreasing as their special habitats are effected by rising temperatures.

For example, citizen scientists from local Sherpa communities set up camera traps, collect scat for DNA analysis, and help put radio collars on the the cats.

By empowering communities to collect data from their local environment and contribute to an interactive, worldwide environmental database, the folks behind the Smart Citizen Kit are enabling a whole new level of participation from citizen scientists.