Sentences with phrase «how citizen scientists»

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Debate on how God can work in an evolutionary universe is unlikely to go away, since most scientists reject the notion that God works in the world while nearly all citizens accept it.

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.

All across Illinois, citizen scientists are monitoring butterflies and providing scientists with critical data that paints a picture of where butterflies are thriving and how populations and habitats are changing.

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.

«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.»

Interested citizen scientists should contact Woods Hole [[email protected]] with the details of their location and how they can be reached.

Citizen Sort needs the help of citizen scientists to classify species and aid the exploration of how motivation, citizen science and gaming all interact.

By identifying images with changing leaves, blooming flowers, and other easy - to - recognize features, citizen scientists can contribute to a better understanding of how plants are responding to climate change

Not only will citizen scientists add valuable information on the extent of ground shaking and damage, but in the process USGS hopes citizen scientists will learn more about how other communities fared and gain a greater understanding of the effects of earthquakes.

Wayne J. Riley, MD, MPH, MBA, MACP, president of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, said, «These findings reflect the breadth of subjects pursued by scientists at SUNY Downstate and illustrate how funded research is important to keeping our citizens both healthy and safe.»

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

The paper also highlights how so - called citizen science projects provide scientists with invaluable information with which to track the spread of ladybirds and other species.

TKF: Down the line, once scientists have come up with these tools, how might the average citizen expect to benefit from new knowledge about the microbiome?

«There is considerable interest in the policy community, among scientists themselves, and among engaged citizens to understand how the fast - paced world of scientific inquiry and innovation is shaping our world,» Michael Dimock, the president of Pew Research Center, said in a statement.

Milton also spent a day visiting NASA headquarters, talking to scientists and managers about how citizen science can help NASA.

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.

I hope this has inspired you to experiment as a citizen scientist, and provoked thought around how powerfully you can show up as the best mom, dad, brother, sister or person you want to be.

Every year, NASA offers a week - long workshop called History of Winter (HOW) in Lake Placid, New York, for a group of teachers to become citizen scientists and help gather information about ice and snow.

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.

In this context, scientists, other experts, concerned citizens, and media entities face a difficult task in deciding how best to speak up: What words, pictures, phrases, testimonials, principles, examples, and so forth will prompt public understanding and responsible action?

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.

John, what I noticed especially is how they throughout discuss the denialists as if they were serious people — «citizen scientists».

How likely is it that an attorney general of either gender would give any consideration to a private citizen's suggestion of what to ask scientists testifying at a public legal hearing concerning climate science assessments?

If he had not, how would anyone be able to determine when the larger public was genuinely swayed by skeptic scientists, and a necessity no longer existed for PR departments of the fossil fuel industry lobby to stage fake bouts of «citizen concern»?

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.

And remember that governments are not scientists, that there are not total experts in this area (as has been pointed out above), and that reasonable people have to sort out (if they are advising governments) how to make sense of all this, or (if they are citizens) how they should regard government pronouncements and intended policies — because we are all affected.

Veteran science writer Cherry and award - winning photographer Braasch team up to make climate change less frightening by showing children how to empower themselves as «citizen scientists.»

Scientists are making more and more of these observations, and the authors tell how young people in Siberia, Canada, Mexico, and throughout the U.S. are involved in such citizen science programs that support scientists in their climateScientists are making more and more of these observations, and the authors tell how young people in Siberia, Canada, Mexico, and throughout the U.S. are involved in such citizen science programs that support scientists in their climatescientists in their climate research.

Deeply isolated in their own tiny academic bubble only talking to like minded individuals also inside of that bubble where the real word rarely intrudes, I doubt that very many of these scientists realise just how stupid and even imbecilic and disposable they are starting to appear to the ordinary citizen on the street particularly when they try to sell a bill of goods like those adjusted and etc and etc temperatures from a half dozen or more decades past as the real temperatures of the times and then change those same temperatures or remove then the next day or week or whatever and then change then yet again and again.

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.

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.

The book argues for «citizen scientists,» and shows how young people throughout North America are collecting data to help describe our changing planet.

In their book How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate, readers will discover that clues to climate change can be found in multiple places where scientists, citizens and even children can go look.

The authors are also careful to show how kids around the world have been a part of the movement by collecting data as «citizen scientists.»