At CitSci, we don’t just support citizen science projects, we are a citizen science project. The platform, website, apps and communications you get from CitSci have all been created by a combination of paid professionals and a network of amazing volunteers. After all – we love volunteers and know you do as well! As we’ve
Can I enter location coordinates that are not in decimal degrees? The CitSci website and mobile apps only accept coordinates in decimal degrees at this time. Check out this online converter for an easy way to convert your coordinates into decimal degrees. Can you system extract location and time stamp information from a photo? It
As a project manager, you can edit your CitSci projects and manage the members, contributions and participation in these projects. As a project manager, you can also analyze data and download it for other purposes. In this tutorial, we will navigate the tools available to project managers and how to use them. STEP 1: Finding
COVER PHOTO: Image by Image by Albrecht Fietz from Pixabay Imagine for a moment that you want to study the link between air quality and the properties of rainbows around the world. You decide you want to leverage the power of citizen science and crowdsourcing to ask people to take pictures of the rainbows they
As a project manager, you can edit your CitSci projects and manage the members, contributions and participation in these projects. In this tutorial, we will navigate the tools available to project managers and discuss how to use them. STEP 1: Create a Project First, create a new project on CitSci! Go to citsci.org. On the
When collecting data for your citizen science projects, flexibility is key. Sometimes you need a paper datasheet and sometimes you need a mobile app. With CitSci, you and your team can do both. And you don’t have to spend thousands of dollars and loads of time to create a custom mobile app – you can
Upper Left: Caroline Wawira Njeru Upper Right: Lawrence Njoroge Chuka Lower Left: Stephen Njeru Munene Lower Right: Margaret Nyambura Wanjiru A group of young people gathered in Kenya in 2018 to figure out how to establish a bamboo agroecology that would 1) provide a sustainable resource for their community, 2) restore degraded riparian areas, and
Last Updated: 10/20/2021 This blog will continue to be updated periodically during the next week or so as we roll out the new CitSci. Welcome to the NEW CitSci! CitSci is back up! You can login, enter observations, update personal and project profiles, and conduct your community science projects on CitSci just as before. We’ll
This blog post originally appeared on the Ecology and Evolution blog, published by Wiley. It was re-posted here in it’s entirety with permission. Read the full published research paper here. By Katarzyna Nowak, Aerin Jacob, Shane Richards, Don Reid, and Greg Newman. Featured image shows one of the “crown jewels” of our camera trapping season
By Alex Long, Sarah J Newman & Anne Bowser This blog first appeared on the Wilson Center blog on December 10, 2020. We’ve reposted it here with permission. April 22, 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. While original plans of a large-scale celebration and campaign around citizen science required rethinking and adjustment, the movement that is Earth Day
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