Sentences with phrase «from citizen science»

To do this we use a huge set of data from a citizen science project called Weather@home ANZ.

The National Marine Fisheries Service is collecting and compiling whale sightings data from citizen science, industry, sanctuaries, and others along the entire west coast.

Her projects since have ranged from a citizen science study on flying ants to accompanying Nobel Laureates on visits to universities around the world.

Birding activity was acquired from a citizen science database maintained by Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology, where birders upload their observations.

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The assertion from Tokyo has been that citizens of Tokyo, hundreds of miles from the reactor, are in no danger, and the science bears that out.

(This is taken from «The State of India's Environment 1982 — A Citizens» Report,» prepared by the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.

Religious nutters have no right to try and withhold civil rights from a group of US citizens just because the nutters choose to be ignorant about the science of sèxual orientation.

Nestlé USA has joined a growing number of food manufacturers backing a citizen's petition from NuTek Food Science asking the FDA to allow «potassium salt» as an alternate name for potassium chloride on food labels.

2014 was a big year for iSeahorse, the citizen science program for seahorse conservation created by Project Seahorse with support from Shedd Aquarium.

She said she's a 53 - year - old mother of three who has lived in Rosendale for 17 years, has a PhD in political science from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and is director of the nonprofit Citizens for Local Power.

While many researchers think of citizen science as a way to engage children and teenagers, many of citizen scientists are adults, some of whom bring scientific expertise from other fields, she said.

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.

«There are many, many different kinds of citizen science projects, everything from large - scale, global, data - drive, researcher - driven investigations to community - based, community - driven questions that address a critical problem, and citizen science exists in almost every scientific discipline,» said Jennifer Shirk, interim executive director of the Citizen Science Association, a nonprofit that seeks to support practitioners of citizen sscience projects, everything from large - scale, global, data - drive, researcher - driven investigations to community - based, community - driven questions that address a critical problem, and citizen science exists in almost every scientific discipline,» said Jennifer Shirk, interim executive director of the Citizen Science Association, a nonprofit that seeks to support practitioners of citizen sscience exists in almost every scientific discipline,» said Jennifer Shirk, interim executive director of the Citizen Science Association, a nonprofit that seeks to support practitioners of citizen sScience Association, a nonprofit that seeks to support practitioners of citizen sciencescience.

While some citizen science programs are modeled on the idea that volunteers are strictly there to learn from professionals, Shirk said citizen scientists also want to be part of a discovery and help gather data relevant to a problem that interests them in calling upon programs to embrace learning together.

Allan and his team used data obtained from agency reports, citizen - science databases and social media for the years 2000 through 2010.

Since about the same percentage of all US citizens say they do believe in a personal god, it makes one wonder what, if not their science, leads the elite of US scientists to differ so dramatically from the general population.

Tech companies — Facebook, Google and IBM, to name a few — are quick to tout the world - changing powers of «big data» gleaned from mobile devices, Web searches, citizen science projects and sensor networks.

Both Chinese citizens and non-Chinese are eligible, as long as they have a Ph.D. in natural sciences or engineering from an internationally recognized university, at least three years of research experience, and are willing to work full - time at a Chinese university or research institute.

The study is based on data from the National Science Foundation's 2010 Survey of Doctorate Recipients, and it covered Ph.D. researchers who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents under the age of 76.

Science in the Community Elisabeth Pain, 9 March Researchers have much to gain from involving citizens as research partners.

«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 Pscience 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 PScience Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Program.

And it wasn't just more non-U.S. citizens earning science and engineering doctorates (up 6 % from 2006) but also more U.S. citizens (up 3.6 %).

Thanks to the Internet, amateur volunteers known as «citizen scientists» can readily donate their time and effort to science — in fields ranging from medicine to zoology to astrophysics.

For Cooper, these results showed both that researchers had strong confidence in data from volunteers and revealed that the influence of citizen science on the study of birds and climate change was greater than is commonly acknowledged.

«Novel data sources from the weather surveillance radar network and the eBird citizen science database enable development of a migration phenology index that can be used to answer this question in future studies.»

U.S. citizens haven't shied away from graduate school in science and engineering over the past 20 years, although their numbers have tailed off since hitting a peak in the mid-1990s.

Harnessing the power of both the Hubble Space Telescope and the citizen science project Galaxy Zoo, scientists from the University of Portsmouth have found that bar - shaped features in spiral galaxies accelerate the galaxy aging process.

The work was partially funded with a $ 100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's citizen science initiative, which encourages scientists to find ways to expand knowledge of and access to reScience Foundation's citizen science initiative, which encourages scientists to find ways to expand knowledge of and access to rescience initiative, which encourages scientists to find ways to expand knowledge of and access to research.

In addition, some policymakers worry that opening the door wider would lead to abuses and would take away science and engineering jobs from U.S. citizens.

Using data collected by thousands of volunteers through «citizen science» schemes, responses to recent climate change were seen to vary greatly from species to species.

A new citizen science initiative within the EVE Online game will ask players to find distant worlds lurking in data from space observatory missions

Science and technology have an enormous impact on society, and many citizens seek guidance on these issues from trusted religious leaders.

Published, peer - reviewed science has emerged from several projects involving citizen science, Gustetic said, including the monitoring of sudden oak death affecting trees in California.

This year, citizens from 136 countries and emerging economies spanning Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America are eligible to apply with a cutting - edge science and technology idea or startup in any sector.

CitizenScience.gov includes a catalog of federally supported citizen science projects, while Challenge.gov is a hub for competitions run by more than 80 federal agencies to gather innovative solutions from the public to solve technical, scientific, and creative problems.

Although citizen science initiatives encourage individuals from all walks of life to get out into nature, greater engagement is needed to bring diverse populations to national parks, argued Theodore Roosevelt IV, an investment banker and conservationist and the great - grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, who signed into law the creation of five National Parks.

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 goal is to use citizen - science classifications to create software that researchers worldwide can use to extract information from bat recordings, making it really easy to track bat populations.

Co-author Dr Helen Roy from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said, «This study demonstrates the value of a citizen science approach for tracking an invasive alien species in both space and time and understanding how environmental conditions may exacerbate spread.»

The NSF - supported Aurorasaurus project leverages the power of citizen science by amassing data from thousands of aurora watchers around the world who help track the auroras in real - time.

The online citizen science group Planet Hunters was established so that volunteers could help to classify light curves from the Kepler mission and to search for such planets.

No matter that Glover is herself advised by hundreds of European research organisations and the Joint Research Council, academies and learned societies from across the sciences and across the world, universities, expert committees, science associations and citizen science.

The lessons learnt from such initiatives have helped develop approaches to citizen science and have inspired new projects both within and among countries.

The online citizen science group Planet Hunters was established so that volunteers could help classify light curves from the Kepler mission and search for such planets.

Then the citizen science project «Notes From Nature» has got a job for you.

Explicit recognition of citizen science in published papers could promote the communication linkages necessary for broader impacts by helping shift public discourse associated with modern climate change from controversy to acceptance.

Specifically, we urge use of the keyword phrase «citizen science» in papers that rely on scientific contributions from the public.

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.

The target for public donations amounts to 3 million euros in 2008, as a commitment from all citizens taking responsibility for their future through a landmark project for science and society.

This study and related investigations were supported by funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD082373), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R24NS092989), the Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (UL1TR000454), and CURE Epilepsy: Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy.