Citizen Science Projects

"Citizen Scientists" are people who conduct volunteer scientific research without formal credentials. The data gathered and reported by citizen scientists is used by professional scientists and is typically available to the public. Anyone with an interest can be a citizen scientist; the complexity ranges from making and reporting simple observations with the naked eye to using very high tech equipment costing thousands of dollars. In this weblog, I'll try to point to interesting projects and bits of news related to the work being done by citizen scientists -- and the organizations that support them. I'll start off here by creating a post for each of the projects I've been reading about recently.