Sentences with phrase «leading a citizen science»

Kuchner has also led a citizen science project called Disk Detective that allows users to scan WISE images for debris disks that could provide clues to planetary formation.

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The facts and process of science have enabled the United States to lead the world in technology and provide good health for an unprecedented number of our citizens.

Prairie Ridge offers a variety of volunteer opportunities, including maintaining the Nature Neighborhood Garden and other groundskeeping activities, assisting with educational programs, leading Saturday citizen science programs, and collecting and / or entering data for citizen science projects.

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.

«With citizen - science programs, we are able to collect a lot of data at multiple spatial and temporal scales, which you can't necessarily do in a university - led research program.

For Sara Wylie, a PLOTS co-founder who led the London session, such reincarnations are part of the lab's citizen - science mission.

«Some have argued that the more armed citizens there are, the lower the firearm homicide rate will be, because the feared or actual presence of armed citizens may deter violent crime,» said lead author Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH.

By elevating these issues in the public dialogue, U.S. citizens gain a fighting chance of learning whether those who would lead them have the education, wisdom and courage necessary to govern in a science - driven century and to preserve democracy for the next generation.

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.

A deeper probe shows that it is actually underlying philosophical concerns of religious citizens and their perceptions of scientists that can lead to responses of either enthusiastic support or rejection of science, in ways that can be sometimes baffling to scientists.

They argue that scientists are being led by the nose by citizens and that when you have ordinary people formulating research questions and hypothesizing or being involved in the study, it makes it illegitimate, it takes away the good science.

«It would have taken our researchers 18 months to do what citizen scientists did in just three months,» says Amy Carton, citizen science lead at Cancer Research UK.

Toward that end, he led the development of the Rosetta computer program that predicts molecular design, and extended its reach with citizen science offshoots like Rosetta@Home and Foldit.

Funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation, Aurorasaurus is a citizen project set up to track the aurora borealis and is led by space scientist Liz MacDonald.

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.

Seabird lead to the formation The Seabird Ecological Assessment Network (SEANET), a citizen science program to bring together researchers and members of the public to identify and mitigate threats to marine birds.

Volunteers are also trained to lead island hikes within the national park, participate in numerous local outreach events and to conduct citizen science, including the collection of valuable research on marine mammals and other important sanctuary and park resources.

The Condor has nominated Andrew Dennhardt, lead author of the paper Applying citizen - science data and mark — recapture models to estimate numbers of migrant Golden Eagles in an Important Bird Area in eastern North America (press release).

5 Gyres lead students in citizen science and educational efforts during two Summer Camp Programs, reaching over 50 students directly and close to 600 people (parents, staff and the local community) indirectly.

The citizen science project is led by Society Fellow, climate scientist Professor Ed Hawkins, of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science and the University of Rscience project is led by Society Fellow, climate scientist Professor Ed Hawkins, of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science and the University of RScience and the University of Reading.