How Citizen Science Connects People to Real Science They Can Do (by SciStarter)

Darlene Cavalier www.scistarter.com

Real science we can do together.

Citizen Science

connects people

to real science they can do.

Millions of people

enjoy science and

nature.

Thousands of scientists need

volunteers.

But they can’t find each other.

We connect

them

Scientist image and cit scientist images tk to illustrate “we connect them”

We connect

them

Organized, searchable inventory of projects. Partners include Citizen Science Association, Discover, PLOS, NSTA. WHYY.

Matchmaker to help researchers connect with communities.

Someone you know is a CITIZEN SCIENTIST

eBird 1.5 million

reports

Water testing 1.5 million monitors

SETI@ home 5 million

volunteers

Accelerating

analysis of tumor samples in huge datasets.

Forecasting solar activity that poses radiation risks to humans and hardware in space.

Analyzing wild algae species for their potential to produce biofuels.

Citizen Science IS Serious Science.

Citizen Science in Diverse!

Put YOUR citizen science experiment in space.

DIYers + Space Enthusiasts.

University of Waterloo’s Snow Tweets

goal Help researchers calibrate accuracy of snow measurement tools task Measure snow where you are, tweet or upload your geotagged data

www.SpaceMicrobes.org

We connect

them

Partner up!

Crowdsource

the crowdsourcing.

Reach new audiences.

“Each vertical bar is one shoe or cell phone. The color represents a different species of bacteria.”

From citizen science to citizen policy.

Informing NASA’s Asteroid Initiative: A Citizen Forum

ECASTonline.org

Connect communities of citizen scientists and fields of research.

-Protocols, Methodologies -Data collection/classification, sharing, visualization tools -Privacy -Recruitment, persistence (incentives, motivations) -Open data sets -Evaluation tools -Best practices, case studies

Connect communities of citizen scientists and fields of research.

Informal survey of 200 SciStarter community

members 50% are active in more than one citizen science project, most of which require unique log-ins 74% of those are involved in projects on different topics 84% would like to know how to access their data once they submit it to a project

Prototype an online, personal dashboard for

participants to:

•  Track their projects, participation, and contributions to science

•  Share and save data

•  Record interests in projects

•  Create profiles

•  Find people and projects of interest to them