Leaders of water monitoring programs in Idaho, Utah, and West Virginia shared how they use CitSci to protect their local waterways, in a webinar hosted by the National Water Quality Monitoring Council’s Volunteer Monitoring Workgroup. A reservoir in Idaho, a statewide volunteer network in Utah, and streams across West Virginia and Virginia face different water
UPDATE: Good news! CitSci.org is back online, and all services have been restored. Earlier today, we temporarily took CitSci.org offline as a precaution following the discovery of critical security vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language used by millions of websites worldwide. Government agencies and other organizations around the world took similar precautions while security updates
Big updates are on the way at CitSci! This fall, we’re launching new location privacy tools and changing how long data download files are kept. Here’s what’s new and what it means for the projects you participate in and/or lead. New: Location Blurring, Launching Later in October Location data can be incredibly valuable for participatory
Hello, CitSci community! This summer has had us out in the world and back at our desks in equal measure. In this newsletter, we’re featuring new functionality on the Observations page to make sorting and exploring your data easier, sharing how CitSci marched down the street in a Fourth of July parade that landed on C-SPAN, inviting
Every CitSci project collects observations, or individual records of data submitted to the project. However, not every observation in a project is necessarily visible to every user. What you can see depends on the project’s privacy settings, your role in the project, and whether you are logged in. The Observations page brings together the records
Madison Stroker found citizen science in a classroom. As a sophomore studying Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at Colorado State University (CSU), she sat in on a guest lecture by CitSci director Greg Newman, who introduced the class to CitSci and the idea that anyone can take part in real scientific research. Madison had never heard
For my birthday this year, I asked eight of my friends to join me in Key West, Florida on a citizen science kayaking excursion. Our task? Document where seagrass is (and isn’t) growing so a collaborative team at the University of Tennessee: Dr. Hannah Herrero, the University of Florida: Dr. Jason Blackburn and Dr. Di
Every Independence Day, Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood lines its streets with families, flags, lawn chairs, and homemade signs for one of the city’s most beloved community traditions. This year, the 16th Annual Park Hill 4th of July Parade will have something a little different marching down the route: a celebration of community science. Caroline Nickerson,
Ever needed to report time spent collecting data? Good news! CitSci now supports built-in time tracking and reporting. Volunteers can log their individual hours, and project leaders can easily report total volunteer time across their projects. How Time is Collected When submitting observations, volunteers may be asked to report how long it took, or when they started or ended different activities related to
Blog post written by Madison Stroker, CSU undergraduate student & CitSci Support Assistant Your CitSci project doesn’t have to stop at data collection — by integrating with Zooniverse, you can invite volunteers to help classify and interpret everything that’s been gathered. Why Integrate? This powerful combination allows you to collect data through CitSci and seamlessly transfer
