Anatomy of a Landslide: Published on Sep 22, 2014 GEER — Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance — is a team
of volunteer scientists who visit natural disasters to determine causes and help prepare for or prevent future disasters.
It is the practice of the ad hoc
volunteer scientists in the working groups who are supposed to work to the IPPC Principles.
The Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights & Law Program works
with volunteer scientists and human rights organizations to apply knowledge toward global challenges and contributes to multiple activities to ensure the free pursuit, access and application of science is used to uphold human rights.
Led by more than 320
volunteer scientists from across the country, thousands of amateur explorers, families, and students on school field trips conducted a comprehensive inventory of the plants, insects, mammals, birds, and other species that inhabit national park sites north and south of the Golden Gate, including Point Reyes National Seashore, Muir Woods National Monument, the Marin Headlands, the Presidio of San Francisco, Mori Point, and Rancho Corral de Tierra.
More recently, 270
volunteer scientists affiliated with the Center for Open Science tried to reproduce results of 98 original research papers published in three psychology journals.
On the other hand the ipcc process began with good intent, and now i would think those doing the work (
ie volunteer scientists / authors etc) are equally committed as ever and doing good work under trying unsatisfactory conditions and constraints.
The eighth in a series of BioBlitzes being held in national parks across the United States leading up to the centennial celebration of the National Park Service in 2016, the Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz will gather thousands
of volunteer scientists, students and community members to measure and highlight the biodiversity of these unique national parks in the heart of the urban Bay Area.
EPSRC is hoping to reduce the volume of grants that
volunteer scientists must evaluate, but some researchers were so angered by the new policy that they vowed not to look at grant submissions to the council.
These volunteer scientists will gather the data through the Web and a smartphone app.
These volunteer scientists will gather the data through an internet website and smartphone app.
For over thirty years, the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory's 300 + team of
volunteer scientists have counted and banded raptors on fall migration.
As the accusations have snowballed in the last six weeks, Dr. Pachauri remains widely admired for his work on the intergovernmental panel, which relies on the collaborative work of hundreds of
volunteer scientists to sift through current scientific evidence for its reports.
IUCN is the world's oldest and largest global environmental network — a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000
volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries.