Citizen Scientists
Citizen Scientist
What is a “citizen scientist”? A “citizen scientist” is a “regular” person who contributes their observations of something-birds, frogs, plants, weather, the night sky, to a central database, which professional scientists can analyze. It vastly extends scientists’ observational powers and allows them to ask and answer questions that otherwise would be impossible to tackle. Try it out!
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https://celebrateurbanbirds.org/cub/instructions (Help scientists study birds…)
- https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/penguintom79/penguin-watch (Help scientists count penguins and study their ecosystem.)
- https://www.noaa.gov/work-with-us/volunteer-opportunities-citizen-scientists (Help scientists study the weather…)
- https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marckuchner/backyard-worlds-planet-9 (Help NASA find new planets!! How cool is that?!)
Find even more Citizen Scientist projects at https://www.nationalgeographic.org/idea/citizen-science-projects/ or https://www.zooniverse.org/projects
