Sentences with phrase «citizen scientists who»

Ignite student passion for the natural world with fieldwork apps, turning your kids into citizen scientists who observe, hypothesize, identify, and share information about nature.

The painstaking process was made possible by a global network of citizen scientists who categorized land cover for roughly 20,000 locations around the world as part of the Geo - Wiki project.

«By generating in situ data with the help of citizen scientists, we envision the app serving supplementary data to scientists as they model mosquito population outbreaks,» says Rusty Low of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, «And equally important is the ability of the app to act as an enabling tool for citizen scientists who want to reduce disease risk in their communities.»

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

The work of the 2.3 million volunteer citizen scientists who contribute to biodiversity research have an economic value of up to $ 2.5 billion per year, said Jennifer Gustetic, assistant director for open innovation in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President.

Over the past 5 years, IIASA researchers on the Geo - Wiki project have been leading a team of citizen scientists who examine satellite data to categorize land cover or identify places where people live and farm.

Nick Milkovich is a citizen scientist who recently participated in a Water Quality Snapshot Day event in...

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In uBiome's case it was citizen scientists — regular people who dig science and like to learn about themselves and apply that knowledge to their own health and other people with similar interests.

Citizen scientists play a significant role in achieving scientific results, according to a panel of experts who participated in the January installment of the AAAS Colloquium series, noting successful citizen science programs and offering suggestions to maximize citizen scientists» efforts.

And since a medical condition with an apparent patient population of one could hardly garner federal funding, Rienhoff recast himself as a citizen scientist, a do - it - yourselfer who now finally has a candidate gene in hand.

The citizen scientists were indispensable for this research project, says Karine Prince, who is a postdoctoral research associate at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and is the lead author of the new report.

«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.»

«In preparing Indicators 2004,» wrote the board in A Companion to Science and Engineering Indicators, 2004, «we have observed a troubling decline in the number of U.S. citizens who are training to become scientists and engineers, whereas the number of jobs requiring science and engineering (S&E) training continues to grow.»

To improve the current culture, the team argues that increased data sharing will allow more diverse people to actively participate in research, such as early - career scientists and those from underrepresented groups; scientists from smaller or historically less - influential institutions; citizen - scientists; and scientists from the Global South, scientists from Africa, South and Central America, and much of Asia who are often excluded from leading research.

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.

More was one of the three astrophysicists who participated in a roundtable discussion, hosted by The Kavli Foundation, about the growing role that citizen scientists are playing in astrophysics.

The researchers relied on observational data sets from citizen scientists, people without the qualifications to be a scientist who have chosen to observe and record patterns in nature.

«It would be really nice if there were more discussion between people that understand science and the scientific method and those that don't,» said Dennis Gallagher, another marcher who described himself as a private citizen scientist.

But Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard professor of biology who is the father of sociobiology and the world's leading expert on social insects, believes that the virtues which GCMA imbued him with were crucial to forming his character, as a citizen and a scientist.

The great lack in the American scientific labor market, he and other observers argue, is not top - flight technical talent but attractive career opportunities for the approximately 30,000 scientists and engineers — about 18,000 of them American citizens — who earn PhDs in the U.S. each year.

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.

We have to build global consortiums in all disciplines to ensure the availability of equipment and data to all researchers, including citizen scientists, who perform investigations of significance.

Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 is a collaboration between NASA, UC Berkeley, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Arizona State University, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and Zooniverse, a collaboration of scientists, software developers and educators who collectively develop and manage citizen science projects on the internet.

From 2015 to 2016, citizen scientists — people like Bourassa who are excited about a science field but don't necessarily have a formal educational background — shared 30 reports of these mysterious lights in online forums and with a team of scientists that run a project called Aurorasaurus.

The researchers credited a cadre of citizen scientists and volunteers who donated their spare cellular smartphone minutes and computer time.

Policy - makers or lobbyists who seek to remove scientists because they don't like their findings or advice do so at the peril of their citizens.

He and his colleagues compiled 13 years of data from citizen scientists in the U.K., who tracked the first bud burst of four common trees.

Founded in the 1950s, the group is currently run by two solid - citizen scientists with commercial aims, Don Griffith and Mark Solak, who have spent their careers working in privately funded weather modification efforts around the country and the world.

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.

Karen James, Ph.D., a scientist at the MDI Biological Laboratory who leads the «BioTrails» project linking citizen scientists with new genetic tools, will lead the first of the summer MDI Science Cafés in Northeast Harbor.

Today we have a guest post from Disk Detective citizen scientist Hugo Durantini Luca., from Cordoba, Argentina, who just returned from another trip to the Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito (CASLEO) observatory to make follow - up observations of our disk candidates.

The paper lists the user names of everyone who helped classify one of the new disks — and you may have noticed the eight of the authors of this paper are citizen scientists: Joseph Biggs, Milton Bosch, Tadeas Cernohous, Hugo A. Durantini Luca, Michiharu Hyogo, Lily Lau Wan Wah, Art Piipuu, Fernanda Pineiro.

Policy makers, scientists, and private citizens around the world who are interested in genomic research are discussing complex issues regarding ethics, social identity, and personal health.

Dr Michael Holick, the scientist who discovered vitamin D3 back in the 1970s and has devoted his career to researching it, estimates that 50 % of US citizens are deficient.

About Site - The Alzheimer's Association of Houston and Southeast Texas consists of families, caregivers, scientists, health professionals, and concerned citizens who are committed to finding a cure for Alzheimer's Disease and to easing the burden of Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders on patients and their families and loved ones.

All our expeditions are hosted by Nicole Nasby Lucas from the Marine Conservation Science Institute and / or by our CEO and citizen scientist Martin Graf who will share their knowledge with powerpoint presentations of their research, instructions on how to identify the individual sharks and they are always available to answer questions.

I have a story this weekend exploring the recent global cold snap and the first big conclave of scientists and citizens who reject — for personal or professional reasons — the dominant scientific view that humans are poised to dangerously heat the planet.

A strong ethical argument can be made that scientists who conclude that there is strong evidence that citizens in their country are harming people around the world and putting millions of others at risk have a duty to speak up.

I'll also quote some social scientists who specialize in environmental risk and response who see little hope that heat waves will be the element that prompts citizens to support a strong climate bill or change behaviors in ways that cut combustion of fossil fuels.

[Andy Revkin — Mr. Gore is sticking with his preference for taxing sources of emissions and limiting costs for citizens that bears no resemblance to «cap and trade» bills like those that have faltered in Congress of late and shares some of the architecture, if not details, of the «cap and dividend» approach of Peter Barnes and a similar proposal from James Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who has moved far into the policy realm lately.]

It would prove even to citizens who are consensus skeptics that in the several instances when scientists earnestly and honestly offered to extend the WSJ's discussion, the WSJ ducked and dodged.

And those who say that the existing scientific method has sufficient checks and balances to find any bad stuff already might care to ponder why all those three — afaik the only three in the history of climatology — were found by «citizen scientists» not by fellow climatologists.

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.

Although I am no more than an ordinary citizen, my email address book reads like a «Who's Who» list of skeptic scientists and speakers.

I did read Nic's submission and am always profoundly impressed by the amazing work done by Nic and the many other citizen - scientists who post here and on other blogs.

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.

Given the strong split in the U.S. government about climate change, Ice911 is joining other citizen scientists, ecological entrepreneurs, and community organizers who are acting now because there is no time to lose.

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.

I note Gavin refers to non-climate scientists who challenge the AGW alarmists as «citizen scientists» perhaps he should consider the climate scientist who are doing data analysis as «citizen data analysts» because frankly from what I've read on these pages they seem to be a pretty amateurist bunch.