Sentences with phrase «example of citizen science»

Have the great and the good at the Royal Society or the equivalent American organisations which spend millions trying to popularise science praised this example of citizen science in action?

Using examples of citizen science projects like Project Budburst, Journey North, and Frogwatch, the authors show that kids have already helped to observe and record how plants and animals change their habitats or behaviors as the climate changes.

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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.

As an example, Bonney described a talk he gives each March to science communication students about the current role of citizen science in research.

Examples of this shift include the familiar social media and social networking sites, like Twitter and Facebook, many people use on a daily basis as well as the likes of Wikipedia and other collaborative ventures, such as citizen science projects.

«This is a great example of the value citizen science data, and we appreciate the focus on the changing conditions in Buzzards Bay,» he said.

The weather@home project, supported by The Guardian, is an example of what's known as «citizen science».

Another example of the importance of citizen science data can be found in a study recently published in the journal Biological Conservation, which documents severe declines in monarch overwintering populations in California.

The study also said that citizens are supportive and proud of a select few programs (Chaney's science, technology, engineering, and math program and the district's early - college academy, which met all the state's indicators in 2012 — 13, are two such examples).

For an example of how that «citizen science» can really work, look at what Ron Broberg and Zeke Hausfeather are doing with the weather station data — they aren't sitting around declaring that «it can't be done» or that the GISTEMP / CRU / NCDC methods are fixed, they are going into the data, making choices, seeing what impact they have and determining what is robust.

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The book, How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming (Dawn Publications, 2008), written with photojournalist Gary Braasch, was finished during Cherry's tenure as the 2006 artist - in - residence at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and features many examples of young people and others involved in citizen science projects at Cornell and elsewhere.

Environmentalist Cherry collaborates with photojournalist Braasch to distill the information in the latter's adult Earth under Fire (2007), adding examples of young people whose participation in citizen science projects through their schools supports the ongoing work of documenting these changes.