Sentences with phrase «citizen scientists using»

That's how Kepler astronomers — and citizen scientists using the internet to help analyze the light curves of stars — are looking for planets.

Not exact matches

Doing so could spark interest among machine learning practitioners to become citizen scientists, «or encourage citizen scientists to use machine learning in their efforts as well,» he said.

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.

On June 29, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner sent a letter to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano that expressed concerns «over the recent indictments of six scientists and a government official» because they «failed to alert the population of L'Aquila of an impending earthquake» despite the fact that there is «no accepted scientific method for earthquake prediction that can be reliably used to warn citizens of impending disaster.»

The program's goal is to train volunteers to serve as citizen scientists, documenting shoreline conditions along Alabama's shoreline using GPS coordinates and alerting officials and COAST partners to the presence of oil and / or affected wildlife.

Using examples from a range of scientific controversies, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about how best science can contribute to policy - making and a healthy democracy.

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

She calls, in particular, for the expanded use of autonomous platforms, telepresence — i.e., allowing scientists to participate in research cruises via satellite links — and crowd - sourcing («citizen science») approaches.

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

Those limited resources mean that JunoCam's scientists rely on a small army of volunteer «citizen scientists» using backyard telescopes to flag transient features in the Jovian atmosphere as «points of interest» for the instrument to observe.

«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.

None of the studies mentioned in the review paper used the terms «citizen science» or «citizen scientist.»

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.

The citizen - scientist images, as well as the raw images they used for image processing, can be found at: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing

The challenge, which was announced at an asteroid initiative industry and partner day at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is a large - scale effort that will use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety of partnerships with other government agencies, international partners, industry, academia, and citizen scientists.

Keeping science nonpartisan is a laudable goal, but scientists are human beings who work and live in societies — and have opinions as scientists and citizens when it comes to the use, or perceived misuse, of science.

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.

It used records from citizen scientists who submitted around 23,000 sightings to the UK Ladybird Survey between 2003 and 2011.

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.

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.

The data that Old Weather volunteer citizen scientists meticulously transcribe from the logbooks are used to drive climate and sea ice models to help understand changes and improve predictions.

But I think one of the things that scientists and other people concerned about science education in the country need to do is make it clear to publishers that as citizens and voters, wherever they live, whatever state or town that they live [in], they will make sure that their elected officials know that textbook X, Y or Z is not to be used in this district because of its bad science.

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

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.

Using spare computing power of citizen scientists» screen savers allows many runs of the models and increases the confidence in the results that UCS scientists and collaborators will analyze.

The Turkana Basin Institute, in collaboration with the University of Bradford, has set up a web site fossilfinder.org, recruiting an army of «citizen scientists» to help discover fossils and other ancient artefacts using the unique online platform «Zooniverse».

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.

While the Heath Hen and Passenger Pigeon de-extinction projects have begun to receive coverage in the press (see UnDark magazine «s piece on resurrecting the heath hen and National Geographic on reviving the passenger pigeon), the versatile uses of genomic technologies for avian conservation hasn't yet reached many professional and citizen scientists working to save birds and their habitats.

Using data from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), citizen scientists are examining images of Mars» South Pole mapping the size and directions of seasonal fans.

As a public service scientist, Maria uses experimental research methodologies and knowledge of how humans behave in the real world to guide public policy challenges and to improve citizen services.

Whether the technology fuels a citizen - science project or whether the data is available from scientists for use by journalists to plumb for stories, it's a facet of data journalism that is particularly relevant to environmental reporting.

As an example, the science education research community uses the term science literacy to talk about the knowledge and skills needed to engage with science as both citizens and scientists.

While nothing is prescriptive, outcomes from Turning the Tide could include identifying creative ways to use new technology to mobilize «citizen scientists» on behalf of environmental research; or a commitment from business leaders in attendance to support a public education campaign advancing the «triple bottom line» model of economic, environmental and societal success.

As a citizen scientist, you explore the planet using satellite imagery to direct your rover to new locations, searching for new life - forms and anomalies.

Nor do I think that your word «citizen auditor», one of Judy's terms that I don't use myself and rather dislike, does justice to the fact that the «core» statistical commenters at Climate Audit and related blogs (Jean S, UC, Ross McKitrick, Roman Mureika, Hu McCulloch, Nic Lewis, Ryan O'Donnell, Jeff Id, Lucia and myself) to name only a few) are more «credentialed» in statistical analysis than the «scientists» that are being criticized.

No matter how you price it, oil is expensive to use; we should be encouraging our citizens to use less of it, our scientists to find alternatives for it, and our producers to find more of it here at home.

I also have a series of RClimate tools using R to help fellow citizen scientists do their own climate trend analysis link.

Using spare computing power of citizen scientists» screen savers allows many runs of the models and increases the confidence in the results that UCS scientists and collaborators will analyze.

The book's final chapter describes how citizens, scientists, and adults use the law — in this case the Endangered Species Act — to make change for the better part of policy as well as personal preference.

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.

So what if you could become a citizen scientist simply by using your iPhone?

«To make sure people form unbiased perceptions of what scientists are discovering, it is necessary to use communication strategies that reduce the likelihood that citizens of diverse values will find scientific findings threatening to their cultural commitments.»

The most unforgiveable unethical behavior surrounding the entire issue of «hiding the decline» and similar biases in published research, is when climate change scientists who know about their — «cherry picking the data», — biased and selective presentation of all data pertinent to published paper conclusions, and — outright errors in their data and peer - reviewed papers, don't speak out loudly in the media outlets that have misled the general public in reporting about their flawed, misleading research, as well as, associated journals and professional societies, to stop politicians and government regulators from using their flawed and misleading research results to pass laws and regulations that have severe effects on the prosperity and quality of life of their fellow citizens of the US and the world.