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The result is To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a Public Benefit Corporation that seeks to «collaborate with global citizens to advance science and build a powerful community of interest» that is made up of three divisions: Entertainment, Science, and AerScience, a Public Benefit Corporation that seeks to «collaborate with global citizens to advance science and build a powerful community of interest» that is made up of three divisions: Entertainment, Science, and Aerscience and build a powerful community of interest» that is made up of three divisions: Entertainment, Science, and AerScience, and Aerospace.

This past weekend Zillow and the University of Washington's Computer Science & Engineering school hosted «Hack Housing: Empowering Smarter Decisions» — a weekend hackathon focused on coming up with creative solutions to make it easier for first - time home buyers, low - income renters and senior citizens to find a home that meets their needs.

Not only has science made great strides in improving the lives of those with physical challenges, but our fellow citizens are also taught to be more kind and tolerant than most people in other countries and other centuries.

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.

Shedd Aquarium's conservation research team launched a citizen science project this spring in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin - Madison Center for Limnology and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations into Great Lakes streams.

The Nature Museum has given visitors the opportunity to create an authentic connection to nature, and has provided the Academy with a new opportunity to build on its legacy of hands - on science education, scientific research, and citizen science.

For the past few years, Boston's Museum of Science (MOS) along with university researchers, tracked these amazing insects through a citizen science project called FireflyScience (MOS) along with university researchers, tracked these amazing insects through a citizen science project called Fireflyscience project called Firefly Watch.

We are sure that counting your backyard birds will be just as fun as it always was, with the added bonus of including your data in one of the largest citizen science projects in the world.

His books include The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power (Oxford University Press, 2013; Second Edition, 2017), which won the 2016 International Journal of Press / Politics Book Award for an outstanding book on media and politics published in the previous ten years and the American Political Science Association Information Technology and Politics Section Best Book Award, 2014; as well as The Handbook of Internet Politics, co-edited with Philip N. Howard (Routledge 2009), and Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies (Oxford University Press, 2006), which won the American Sociological Association Best Book Award (Communication and Information Technologies Section).

«For us to build the country of our dreams, for us to make Nigeria a truly great nation, a nation that is able to feed and house its citizens, a nation with a stable currency, we must embrace science and technology.

Its message of freedom for all citizens, particularly former slaves — reinforced by broken shackles that lie at Lady Liberty's feet — resonated with Ramirez long before she understood the science behind its construction.

Located in the heart of the nation's capital, the Program on Science in the Public Interest promotes direct dialogue with the government, industry, and the community on critical scientific issues and helps to develop the next generation of citizen scientists.

In accordance with public policy being concerned about the well - being of its citizens, science policy's goal is to consider how science and technology can best serve the public.

Lea Shanley, 2008 - 09 Legislative Branch Fellow sponsored by ASA / CSSA / SSA and a champion of citizen science, served as an adviser to the program over the past four years, offering ideas, providing feedback and connecting the producers with exemplary citizen science projects.

At CERN near Geneva and other large - scale scientific projects, people with a range of skills have come together to work toward specified goals; through citizen science, this idea can be broadened, be it by classifying newly discovered galaxies or identifying plants.

There are many kinds of citizen science, among them: making field observations as in the sunflower project, analyzing images and video such as the terrific Zooniverse.org projects, data crunching with spare computing power, and more.

«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.

Rather than encouraging researchers to take on problems that serve the public interest — a basic function of science and the fundamental reason that citizens support funding for science — Edwards believes those «perverse incentives» make researchers cautious and only concerned with their own interests.

Cruickshank aims to promote infection awareness and enable access to science for all including Manchester's non-native English speakers, and to work with communities to understand allergies and the impacts of pollution via citizen science (#BritainBreathing).

► On Monday, we posted a Career Q&A with Amy Robinson, the creative director of the EyeWire citizen - science computer game.

The Citizen Sort Web site is designed to help biologists and ecologists with scientific classification tasks and to help information scientists and human - computer interaction researchers evaluate the role of motivation in citizen science.

Building on previous citizen science research by Barrows, the researchers argue that citizen science may be the key to keeping natural history relevant in the 21st century and keeping pace with the direction of modern ecology.

«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.

The bill allowed NSF to develop a new program to increase the number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents with undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Only 24 percent had been given the opportunity to participate in a citizen science - type field campaign, which is defined as the collection and analysis of data relating to the natural world by members of the general public, typically in collaboration with professional scientists.

Capitalizing on the unique expertise of its members, the IAU through its Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites Working Group has now developed a project in partnership with Zooniverse — home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects [1].

«As private American citizens, we brought a message of good will, formed by a shared interest in science and science - based solutions to problems, that would have been greeted with great suspicion if delivered by officials of the U.S. government.»

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.

Launched on April 15, Condor Watch is part of Zooniverse, a collection of of web - based citizen science projects that use the efforts of volunteers to help researchers deal with the flood of data that confronts them.

It shows the benefits of combining citizen science with the research and resources of highly - ranked universities to assist an NGO with their conservation activities.»

They are collaborating with researchers at Oregon State University and the University of Idaho, and are ramping up a citizen science project asking hikers and snowshoers to share snow observations.

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 experience, which included an introduction to the core principles of citizen science and working with other participants to design and pitch a proposal for a citizen science - based project, was «very inspiring,» says Heil, who defended her thesis in December and is currently a postdoc in her Ph.D. lab.

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.

«The coupling of citizen science approaches with global collaborations among researchers will provide the scale of information required to address some of the complex ecological questions that remain unanswered,» Roy says, explaining what the future holds for research related to the harlequin ladybird.

When I was in North Carolina last month for the meet - and - greet - and - learn - exhausto - freneti - thon of ScienceOnline 2012, I procured for myself a sampling kit for a citizen science project being conducted by the lab of Rob Dunn, Sci Am Guest Blogger and author of the wonderful book The Wild Life of our Bodies.He's doing a new study called «The Wild Life of Our Homes», and for the low, low price of nothing *, I got a sampling kit with two neato dual - pronged sterile Q - tips, instructions, a questionnaire about the characteristics of my pad, and a mailing address to send it back to.

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.

«One of the slight difficulties with the kit we've been using is it isn't well suited for the widespread citizen science use,» notes Brewin, who is now testing five smartfins.

To read about their project, and how they linked observations of galaxies with the citizen science project, Galaxy Zoo, click on the link here.

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.

With Planet Hunters (http://www.planethunters.org), one of the many Zooniverse citizen science projects, we enlist the general public to inspect the publicly released Kepler data via the World Wide Web.

We have demonstrated the success of utilizing citizen science, with the discovery of four unknown planet candidates not previously identified by the Kepler team.

With the help of citizen scientists, the research team has identified seven dust particles and residues - less than 1 millionth of a metre across - that are consistent with interstellar dust, which they have documented in an academic paper entitled «Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft» and published in the journal ScieWith the help of citizen scientists, the research team has identified seven dust particles and residues - less than 1 millionth of a metre across - that are consistent with interstellar dust, which they have documented in an academic paper entitled «Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft» and published in the journal Sciewith interstellar dust, which they have documented in an academic paper entitled «Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft» and published in the journal Science.

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.

We also checked out the «Planet Hunters» session, which was a really cool view of exoplanet astronomy and citizen science with Dr. Meg Schwamb.

Fast forward: It's now November 04, 2015 and I'm on a Google hangout call with the science team of Disk Detective, a citizen science project run by NASA.

It was an unlooked - for opportunity to get the word out about Disk Detective and citizen science with one of our U.S. Senators and it could not have gone better.

«Kids merely doing the grunt work of coming up with data is not the point of citizen science,» explains Karen Matsumoto, project coordinator of citizen science at the Seattle Aquarium.

With a critical mind, honed by comprehensive study of the liberal arts and sciences, the citizen is properly armored for the endless war he will have to fight against mind - numbing, enslaving propaganda.

Mason et al. (2000) connected technology with development of citizens in democratic societies; Pope and Golub (2000) promoted technology as a literacy tool; Garofalo et al. (2000) and Flick and Bell (2000), respectively, focused on worthwhile mathematics and science in their technology use principles.