Sentences with phrase «citizen scientists took»

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.

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Of course I also spend time taking pictures of the beautiful world, spending time with my wife, reading books or magazines, playing video games, enjoying a great meal, engaging in citizen scientist projects, spending time in thought or contemplation about the universe or our planet, or in other words generally loving and enjoying life!

Visit feeders to identify common winter birds, learn how to participate as a citizen scientist in Project FeederWatch and make bird treats to take home.

Counting birds in photos takes a long time — and citizen scientists can get tired.

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:

«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.»

But as outraged citizens accused both parties of trying to manipulate the vote, Baltimore and Charles Vest, his counterpart at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, took a more scientific approach: they assembled a team of computer scientists, mechanical engineers and political scientists to reengineer the election process.

Instead, true mentoring involves «taking a deep interest in a person's development as a scientist and a citizen of the scientific community.»

Parks can be hubs for basic and applied science where citizen scientists can take part in research, he said.

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.

«It would have taken our researchers 18 months to do what citizen scientists did in just three months,» says Amy Carton, citizen science lead at Cancer Research UK.

Just by taking photos and observing spiders, citizen scientists can help the Explorit Science Center in Davis, Calif., learn about which climates certain spiders live in and track the distribution of spiders over time.

Two websites, Mars Trek and Experience Curiosity, can take citizen scientists on a unique virtual journey.

In an editorial on January 5, 2012, the top scientific journal Nature calls on climate scientists to be «even more energetic in taking their message to citizens.»

In just three months, citizen scientists had analysed data that would typically take our scientists 18 months to do and early indications of the accuracy are promising.

The Kincumber students have also been contributing to their local community by becoming citizen scientists, taking part in the Feather Map of Australia Project.

But he also urged scientists to take steps themselves to engage with citizens and leaders.

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.

According to retired NASA climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, «If you want to join the fight to save the planet, to save creation for your grandchildren, there is no more effective step you could take than becoming an active member of Citizens Climate Lobby.»

This conquest of democratic governments was assisted by scientists, educators and news reporters who openly promoted items (1 - 4) of the common interests of ordinary citizens, while their paymasters quietly took away items (5,6).

The policy has bipartisan support and is endorsed by over 50 University of Washington climate scientists, Audubon Washington, Citizens» Climate Lobby, and numerous other groups and individuals who believe we must take action now on climate change.

That said, I do see glimmers of hope at sites such as this, where the views — and misconceptions — of «citizen scientists» such as myself are taken seriously.

Of course, my tiny bit of distrust will not affect climate science directly, but as a citizen, voter and taxpayer I will oppose the climate change agenda, I will seek to have its funding reduced, and I support criminal investigation of climate scientists who take federal funding but do not comply with FOI requests and accountability for how those funds are spent.

Drawing on examples from biotechnology, carbon capture and storage, and vaccination he argued that scientists should take the concerns of citizens seriously.

It took 13 years of bitter debate among governments, business leaders, scientists and concerned citizens before the world accepted his findings and moved to ban these chemicals through an international treaty, the Montreal Protocol, in 1987.

Through Galaxy Zoo «citizen scientists» take part in helping professional astronomers assemble valuable data for research and exploration.