Sentences with phrase «other citizen science»

The other citizen science project we're working on is Worm Watch Lab — a project run by Zooniverse.

Celebrate #CitSciDay2018 with us all this week and learn about a few other citizen science projects too.

These include nest box monitors and other citizen science positions.

Not exact matches

In uBiome's case it was citizen scientists — regular people who dig science and like to learn about themselves and apply that knowledge to their own health and other people with similar interests.

The other point, is that Graham, Cathy, and the other religious nutters want to legalize and legislate discrimination against a group of US citizens simply because the purposefully choose to be ignorant about the science of sèxual orientation.

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.

Citizen cientists use their eyes, ears and smartphones to protect birds, frogs and other wildlife - Medill Reports Chicago - October 21, 2016 Citizen science recruiters seeking new volunteers shared the impact of ongoing projects at The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's inaugural citizen science fair on Saturday.

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.

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.

eBird is one of several Cornell Lab citizen - science projects aimed at better understanding our feathered friends as well as other wildlife

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.

Added Shirley Malcom, head of Education and Human Resources programs at AAAS, «We look forward to expansion of this initiative to other units, to help citizens across the nation recognize the importance of science in the preservation and management of our national parks, often referred to as «America's Best Idea.

Should I even put myself through the ringer and pursue a career in science or engineering if at the end of the day I am still going to be considered a second - class citizen for no reason other than discriminatory or patriarchal thinking?

«Informing citizens about the health of the nation and discussing pivotal science and policy issues such as mental health, chronic and emerging diseases and other public health threats, and vaccine research are important to not only advance the national dialogue but also improve the country's overall well - being.»

Examples of this shift include the familiar social media and social networking sites, like Twitter and Facebook, many people use on a daily basis as well as the likes of Wikipedia and other collaborative ventures, such as citizen science projects.

In the online citizen science project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, space lovers can flip through space images and search for this potential planet as well as other far - off worlds awaiting discovery.

BEIJING — Two top Chinese scientists, one a Nobel laureate and the other a winner of a top computer science prize, have renounced their U.S. citizenship to become citizens of China.

«We were pretty convinced that we were going to find that business did have an advantage, but, when going head - to - head against these citizen groups, government officials and other groups that represent occupational interests, business has no inherent advantage,» said Marie Hojnacki, associate professor of political science, Penn State.

The use of remote sensing and other technology, including citizen science, can revolutionize our understanding of air pollution and policies to address it.

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.

But I think one of the things that scientists and other people concerned about science education in the country need to do is make it clear to publishers that as citizens and voters, wherever they live, whatever state or town that they live [in], they will make sure that their elected officials know that textbook X, Y or Z is not to be used in this district because of its bad science.

The study's authors encourage other directed research programs using citizen science to dedicate their efforts to photo - identification sampling at times and locations separate to regular tourism activities to encourage consistency and avoid data gaps.

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.

Given the invisible prevalence of citizen science in advancing this one area of global change research, we suspect it also common in many other areas of inquiry such as studies of land - use change, invasive species, and environmental pollutants, to name a few.

Continued assessment of the value of citizen science in other areas of research could help increase overall public participation as well as identify new frontiers in multiple research fields and improve the interdisciplinary practice of citizen science.

BVP is among a growing number of high - performing charter - school networks (including Summit Public Schools, Citizens of the World Charter Schools, Denver School of Science and Technology, and others) that are intentionally socioeconomically diverse.

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

So, when U.S. citizens read that «only one - third» or «less than half» of the students in their local schools are proficient in mathematics, science, or reading (or other subjects), they can rest assured that the same judgments could be applied to national education systems throughout the world if students in those nations participated in NAEP or Common Core - related assessments.

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.

In addition to their valuable education and outreach role, Channel Islands Naturalist Corps (CINC) volunteers are also trained to conduct citizen science, including the collection of valuable research on marine mammals and other important resources within Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park.

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

This is all good for understanding more regional / local impacts — for adaptation, for strengthening the science, and inspiring people to implement mitigation measures — but from an ecological citizen's view, all we need to know at a low level of confidence is that AGW will be causing some bad things or other to be happening somewhere or other, sometime or other, to people and other creatures to feel the heavy responsibility to mitigate here and now.

But with sustained citizen engagement, increased monitoring and transparency, more «mundane science» (in the best sense, as conveyed by Dan Kammen and Michael Dove) and pressure on despots and other bad actors, chances of up - side surprises remain high.

Climate Etc. provides a forum for climate researchers, academics and technical experts from other fields, citizen scientists, and the interested public to engage in a discussion on topics related to climate science and the science - policy interface.

Please don't hijack the science, and tell people like me, who understand most of the science (other than the intricacies of climate models) better than 99 % of US citizens, and have followed the science better than 99.8 % of US citizens, that we don't know what we are talking about.

To all the thousands of local citizen - science organizations that look after the world's bats, birds, fishes, mammals, herps, butterflies, trees, flowers, mushrooms... and G * d knows what other life - forms!

What will come in the future in other areas of science is the blogasphere, and here too, the collective wisdom of interested citizens and scientists will shape, and I speculate, increase the speed of science sharing.

In a lame effort to fill out the TRNN video with other material which looked like fossil fuel industry orchestrating things, a line from the American Petroleum Institute's 1998 leaked «Global Climate Science Communications Team» memo was highlighted, while the narrator read it: «Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science.Science Communications Team» memo was highlighted, while the narrator read it: «Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science.science.»

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.

Given that thawing permafrost also affects buildings, roads and other infrastructure, and thus society has a direct stake in its progression, there may also be an opportunity for citizen science in establishing additional permafrost monitoring sites.

«Victory Will Be Achieved for Greenpeace When,» among other things, «Average citizens «understand» (recognize) certainties in climate science,» public «recognition of certainty becomes part of the «conventional wisdom.»»

New York City's third key step is bringing together city decision - makers, infrastructure managers, citizens groups and other key actors with researchers to develop shared understanding of New York's specific climate change vulnerabilities and climate science needs.

Such agreements force the parties involved to discuss openly and honestly with their citizens matters that might otherwise remain untouched and accepted due to tradition, societal convention, politics, religion, out - of - date law, science or belief, or other reasons.

Reno, NV About Blog Climate Etc. provides a forum for climate researchers, academics and technical experts from other fields, citizen scientists, and the interested public to engage in a discussion on topics related to climate science and the science - policy interface.

Other finalists for the public sector award were the Indigenous Community Planning Program (University of B.C. School of Community and Regional Planning) and the User Network for Insect Biology in the Urban Garden (UNIBUG), citizen science at Douglas College.