Sentences with phrase «more citizen scientist»

There's a reason to practice your iPhone photography skills like Trevor Reichman has done - more and more citizen scientists apps are popping up that put you in the driver's seat for documenting the flora and fauna around your for science's sake.

This crowdfunded project enables more citizen scientists to contribute to a distributed data - collection and environmental monitoring network.

Not exact matches

Information collected contributes to more than 20 years of data collected by Knapp and citizen scientists to monitor the health of the endangered Andros Island iguana.

By designating a particular day for such activities, citizen scientists feel part of a larger effort and are more likely make a commitment to participate, he said.

For instance, weather reports collected by citizen scientists more than 100 years ago continue to be analyzed, he said.

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.

AAAS counts more than 143,000 individual scientists, engineers, science educators, policy makers, journalists, and interested citizens among its members, making it the largest general scientific organization in the world.

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 price of synthesis is dropping, too, which makes the idea of citizen scientists doing synthetic biology in home labs more feasible.

«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 as outraged citizens accused both parties of trying to manipulate the vote, Baltimore and Charles Vest, his counterpart at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, took a more scientific approach: they assembled a team of computer scientists, mechanical engineers and political scientists to reengineer the election process.

An international community of conservationists, scientists and sociologists needs to join the concerned citizens and researchers of Nicaragua in demanding two things: first, independent assessments of the repercussions of this mega-project; and second, that the Nicaraguan government halt the project should the assessments confirm fears that this canal will yield more losses than gains for the region's natural resources, indigenous communities and biodiversity.

Our 20,000 citizen scientists share their observations and get help identifying what they've seen, building up reputation as they learn and making good identifications with the help of experts from more than 80 natural history societies.

«It also allows us more freedom to engage local citizen scientists in the effort to save the species around them.»

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.

By a 20 - percentage point margin, citizens are more likely than scientists to favor offshore oil drilling.

As part of Zooniverse's Orchid Observers project, citizen scientists can photograph wild orchids throughout the summer of 2015 and annotate images of the London Natural History Museum's more than 10,000 specimens to contribute to climate change research.

During the past two years, citizen scientists have helped locate more than 500 million lunar craters by using an app called MoonMappers.

The nests containing plastic were among more than 200 artificial nest boxes monitored by MacIvor as part of a large - scale investigation of the ecology of urban bees and wasps, a project involving numerous citizen scientists.

In an editorial on January 5, 2012, the top scientific journal Nature calls on climate scientists to be «even more energetic in taking their message to citizens.»

Learn more: Stanford researchers seek citizen scientists to contribute to worldwide mosquito tracking

The report compiled information from more than three dozen scientists and citizen monitors and found that populations of the rusty - patched, yellowbanded and western bumble bee have all sharply dropped in the last decade.

«With the additions that citizen scientists as detectives can make, professional research scientists will be able to conduct more research into our changing world, and do so much more effectively.»

The prose in this volume will appeal more to the citation - enthralled political scientist than to the informed citizen, but the study itself brings together the best available evidence on the consequences of mayoral efforts to reform big - city school systems.

As a student, father, grandparent, citizen, scientist, member of the human race... I couldn't disagree more.

While I want a science curriculum that is more demanding, I want it to be more demanding in the right way — to make sure our future scientists and citizens learn to think.

When scientists reported back in the 2010s that they didn't know the full extent of the consequences that Earth's citizens would eventually endure due to... Read more...

There should be no contradiction between working like a scientist and behaving like a citizen, and if there is, it's probable that the second role is the more important one.

Hope more and more scientists, general citizens, organations, join together to plan and to make our earth future!!

The debate isn't happening — the way politics works probably guaranteed that outcome — but much credit goes to the organizers for at least getting answers from their campaign staffs to 14 questions on science and technology policy, winnowed from more than 3,400 questions submitted by scientists and concerned citizens.

I hope that more scientists follow this example and offer their perspectives as individuals / citizens based on their knowledge and understanding.

In the action, more than 1,200 campaigners, scientists (including NASA's Jim Hansen), students and other concerned citizens — mainly brought there by the project's climate impacts — sat down and waited for handcuffs:

Nor do I think that your word «citizen auditor», one of Judy's terms that I don't use myself and rather dislike, does justice to the fact that the «core» statistical commenters at Climate Audit and related blogs (Jean S, UC, Ross McKitrick, Roman Mureika, Hu McCulloch, Nic Lewis, Ryan O'Donnell, Jeff Id, Lucia and myself) to name only a few) are more «credentialed» in statistical analysis than the «scientists» that are being criticized.

According to retired NASA climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, «If you want to join the fight to save the planet, to save creation for your grandchildren, there is no more effective step you could take than becoming an active member of Citizens Climate Lobby.»

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.

Next week: Subsistence hunters serving as «citizen scientists» help Brinkman's team by providing detailed observations about climate change - driven changes in their areas that have made hunting, fishing and trapping more difficult.

To be fair, that's not a high hurdle to clear and says more about the incompetence of «citizen scientists» than the competence of a retired mining executive.

The Conference historically unites more than 3,000 activists, attorneys, students, scientists, and concerned citizens from over 50 countries around the globe to share their experience and expertise.»

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.

The episode, titled «SkyGirls,» featured NASA... (View More) female scientists and a citizen science projects for students.

It includes his bit about fake letter - writers, his inconsistencies about whether he prompted a male or female Attorney General to question skeptic scientists attending a 1995 government hearing, the plausibility problem of that AG tipping him — a private citizen at that time — about the impending appearance of skeptic climate scientists there — plus more than a dozen other major problems.

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.

Here is the science behind the headlines — evidence from flowers, butterflies, birds, frogs, trees, glaciers and much more, gathered by scientists from all over the world, sometimes with assistance from young «citizen - scientists.»

And, should a child reader wish to learn more, get involved with a variety of «citizen scientist» organizations, or reduce his carbon footprint, the book provides a robust listing of groups and resources.

The David Suzuki Foundation joined the U.S. - based SciStarter program, which connects scientists and community leaders to more than 1,100 citizen science projects and to anyone wishing to contribute to scientific research.

And then BP, spurred on by activist scientists, NASA imaging, and angry citizens, would «revise» its estimates... until they more closely resembled the figure they first came up with just hours after the spill began.

Hansen now starts off most public appearances by stating that he speaks as a private citizen, not a public employee, that his opinions are those of a climate scientist with more than 30 years» experience, not of a government policymaker.