Citizen Science Projects
These projects rely on individual citizens to make observations and reports to help monitor conditions in the real world. Participants contribute to knowledge in the scientific community while also learning new things themselves.
scistarter: Science we can do together
scistarter - Provides a huge searchable database of citizen science projects across a large array of topics. It includes projects for the U.S. and abroad.
USA National Phrenology Network
USA National Phrenology Network - The USA National Phenology Network brings together citizen scientists, government agencies, non-profit groups, educators and students of all ages to monitor the impacts of climate change on plants and animals in the United States. The network harnesses the power of people and the Internet to collect and share information, providing researchers with far more data than they could collect alone.
Citizen Science Alliance
This site provides an overview to a number of citizen science projects.
Moon Zoo: Explore the Moon in unprecedented detail using images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera.
Galaxy Zoo: Hubble The latest version of the original Zooniverse project. Help astronomers figure out how galaxies form and evolve by classifying their shape. Now with added Hubble galaxies.
Solar StormWatch: Help spot explosions on the Sun and track them across space to Earth. Your work will give astronauts an early warning if dangerous solar radiation is headed their way.
Old Weather: Help scientists recover worldwide weather observations made by Royal Navy ships around the time of World War I. These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and improve a database of weather extremes.
Galaxy Zoo Mergers: A test case for more complicated modes of interaction, visitors are invited to compare simulations of mergers between galaxies with observation. By having many thousands of people run simulations, we can explore the vast parameter space more efficiently than with automated routines.
Galaxy Zoo Supernovae: Help us to catch an exploding star. The task in this latest Galaxy Zoo project is to help us catch exploding stars - supernovae. Data for the site is provided by an automatic survey in California, at the world-famous Palomar Observatory.
Planet Hunters - Participants help us sieve through data taken by the NASA Kepler space mission. These data consist of brightness measurements, or "light curves," taken every thirty minutes for more than 150,000 stars. Users search for possible transit events - a brief dip in brightness that occurs when a planet passes in front of the star - with the goal of discovering a planet (hence the name "Planet Hunters").
Milky Way Project - Using our bubble-drawing interface, our hope is that you will find bubbles and note any important or unusual characteristics. For example, if you can see what looks like a knot in the bubble, flag it! This knot might tell us something about how the bubble is affecting star formation in the region. If you see a star cluster, flag it! We hope to map the location of these clusters - many of which have not been located before.
Moon Zoo: Explore the Moon in unprecedented detail using images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera.
Galaxy Zoo: Hubble The latest version of the original Zooniverse project. Help astronomers figure out how galaxies form and evolve by classifying their shape. Now with added Hubble galaxies.
Solar StormWatch: Help spot explosions on the Sun and track them across space to Earth. Your work will give astronauts an early warning if dangerous solar radiation is headed their way.
Old Weather: Help scientists recover worldwide weather observations made by Royal Navy ships around the time of World War I. These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and improve a database of weather extremes.
Galaxy Zoo Mergers: A test case for more complicated modes of interaction, visitors are invited to compare simulations of mergers between galaxies with observation. By having many thousands of people run simulations, we can explore the vast parameter space more efficiently than with automated routines.
Galaxy Zoo Supernovae: Help us to catch an exploding star. The task in this latest Galaxy Zoo project is to help us catch exploding stars - supernovae. Data for the site is provided by an automatic survey in California, at the world-famous Palomar Observatory.
Planet Hunters - Participants help us sieve through data taken by the NASA Kepler space mission. These data consist of brightness measurements, or "light curves," taken every thirty minutes for more than 150,000 stars. Users search for possible transit events - a brief dip in brightness that occurs when a planet passes in front of the star - with the goal of discovering a planet (hence the name "Planet Hunters").
Milky Way Project - Using our bubble-drawing interface, our hope is that you will find bubbles and note any important or unusual characteristics. For example, if you can see what looks like a knot in the bubble, flag it! This knot might tell us something about how the bubble is affecting star formation in the region. If you see a star cluster, flag it! We hope to map the location of these clusters - many of which have not been located before.
Ornithology Projects at Cornell Lab
Cornell Lab of Ornithology Projects
Birds in Forested Landscapes - BFL studies the effects of human-caused changes on forest-dwelling birds throughout North America.
BirdSleuth - An inquiry-based citizen-science curriculum for middle school kids.
CamClickr - An online photo-tagging project that enlists the help of citizen scientists to identify breeding behaviors captured from our NestCams.
Celebrate Urban Birds - !Promotes conservation in cities through gardening, the arts and observing birds.
eBird - A real-time, online checklist program. We count birds!
Great Backyard Bird Count - Help create a continent-wide snapshot of winter bird populations.
NestCamsA suite of online webcams that use real-time Internet technology to observe and interpret the nesting behaviors of birds and promote understanding of their breeding biology. NestWatch - Teaches people how to effectively monitor nests & collect breeding data to track the reproductive success of all North American breeding birds.
Pigeon Watch - Help scientists better understand why pigeons exist in so many different colors. You'll learn to identify seven pigeon color morphs and become familiar with courtship behaviors. It's easy and fun.
Priority Migrant ebird - Collect non-breeding distribution and abundance data for five migratory birds of conservation concern.
Project FeederWatch - Embrace the winter. Count feeder birds for science!
Birds in Forested Landscapes - BFL studies the effects of human-caused changes on forest-dwelling birds throughout North America.
BirdSleuth - An inquiry-based citizen-science curriculum for middle school kids.
CamClickr - An online photo-tagging project that enlists the help of citizen scientists to identify breeding behaviors captured from our NestCams.
Celebrate Urban Birds - !Promotes conservation in cities through gardening, the arts and observing birds.
eBird - A real-time, online checklist program. We count birds!
Great Backyard Bird Count - Help create a continent-wide snapshot of winter bird populations.
NestCamsA suite of online webcams that use real-time Internet technology to observe and interpret the nesting behaviors of birds and promote understanding of their breeding biology. NestWatch - Teaches people how to effectively monitor nests & collect breeding data to track the reproductive success of all North American breeding birds.
Pigeon Watch - Help scientists better understand why pigeons exist in so many different colors. You'll learn to identify seven pigeon color morphs and become familiar with courtship behaviors. It's easy and fun.
Priority Migrant ebird - Collect non-breeding distribution and abundance data for five migratory birds of conservation concern.
Project FeederWatch - Embrace the winter. Count feeder birds for science!
Audubon Society Bird Counts
Audubon Bird Counts - Projects include the Christmas bird count and the Great Backyard Bird Count.