Sentences with phrase «see citizen scientists»

Lintott, who is also a co-founder of Galaxy Zoo and the principal investigator for the Zooniverse citizen science web portal, added: «Plus, a lot of unusual discoveries will need to be followed up, and I'd like to see citizen scientists get further into the process of analysis.

The 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize winners were announced and we were thrilled to see citizen scientist LeeAnne Walters honored for her work to expose the Flint water crisis.

Not exact matches

See Andrew Morrison, «Mass Media Use by Adults,» American Behavioral Scientist, September / October 1979, pp. 71 - 93; Frederick Williams, Herbert Dordick, and Frederick Horstmann, «Where Citizens Go for Information,» Journal of Communication, Winter 1977, pp. 95 - 99.

A camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft is giving citizen scientists a crack at discovering never - before - seen features of Jupiter.

That's the forecast for Jupiter's south pole — a region never seen before but quickly coming into focus with the help of citizen scientists.

«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.»

COASST sees a future in which all coastal communities contribute directly to monitoring local marine resources and ecosystem health through the establishment of a network of citizen scientists, each collecting rigorous and vital data.

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.

Massimo Marengo, an Iowa State University associate professor of physics and astronomy, wondered when he saw all the buzz about the mysterious star found by citizen scientists on the Planet Hunters website.

The main interface plots Kepler's data on a chart and asks the citizen scientist questions about what they see, such as patterns or dips in light.

«There is a $ 37 - billion - dollar - a-year industry for scientific research equipment that never saw individual users, like citizen scientists, as a market,» says Shannon Dosemagen, co-founder of DIY community Public Lab, which creates and sells tools, such as $ 10 mini-spectrometers, to collect and analyze data.

NG: Every scientist ought to be a citizen two or three days a year and see their two senators and see their House member, as citizens, and legitimately represent their beliefs about science and their beliefs about research investment and their beliefs about education reform.

While the Heath Hen and Passenger Pigeon de-extinction projects have begun to receive coverage in the press (see UnDark magazine «s piece on resurrecting the heath hen and National Geographic on reviving the passenger pigeon), the versatile uses of genomic technologies for avian conservation hasn't yet reached many professional and citizen scientists working to save birds and their habitats.

«They want to speed up the ones that they see as good citizens,» Paul Knoepfler, a stem cell scientist at the University of California, Davis, said of the FDA.

Just as Paglen works with hobbyist astronomers, curator Tyler Stallings, whose show «Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration» will be seen next year at the Sweeney Art Gallery at the University of California, Riverside, comments that the «idea of citizen scientists, a burgeoning movement, shows a shift from scientists informing the public about what's good for them to research often done by amateurs.»

I'll also quote some social scientists who specialize in environmental risk and response who see little hope that heat waves will be the element that prompts citizens to support a strong climate bill or change behaviors in ways that cut combustion of fossil fuels.

Although a regular citizen can't «see» carbon dioxide, scientists and engineers and others know the sources of greatest emissions.

Here's why I see no social or political tipping point: Behind the ups and downs tracked by Gallup, Pew, The Times and others, there's been little evidence of a shift in what political and socials scientists call «issue salience» for global warming — making it the kind of problem citizens bring to the voting booth.

That said, I do see glimmers of hope at sites such as this, where the views — and misconceptions — of «citizen scientists» such as myself are taken seriously.

I can only hope to see on my cable guide one day the «WUWT - TV special with the Union of Concerned Skeptical Scientists and Citizens»

For scientists, experts and citizens the evidence may be compelling, but many parliamentarians and some cabinet ministers in the governing Conservative Party remain unyielding members of the climate - change - denial community (see «A [continue reading...]

For scientists, experts and citizens the evidence may be compelling, but many parliamentarians and some cabinet ministers in the governing Conservative Party remain unyielding members of the climate - change - denial community (see «A flooded future: Essex to the world», 20 February 2014).

As a human being, I can't pretend that I don't understand the policy relevance of these papers, and as a scientist and as a citizen I want to see scientific progress made on topics of societal relevance.