Celebrate Earth Day (April 22), CSU Natural Resource Days, and Citizen Science Month (all throughout April) with a hands-on event that combines community action and real research. #LeaveNoTrash at CSU: April 22 Event On Wednesday, April 22 at 2 PM MT, teams from CitSci, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL), Ecosystem Science and Sustainability (ESS), and
April is Citizen Science Month, a global celebration of public participation in scientific research. As a partner of SciStarter, the leader of Citizen Science Month, CitSci is contributing acts of science. An “Act of Science” can be: Contributing data to a project. Analyzing images or datasets. Attending an event. Supporting research in any measurable way. If
The #LeaveNoTrash University Challenge is a student-centered spinoff of the existing Leave No Trace #LeaveNoTrash campaign. It’s a week-long event in April, designed to build a community of people who recognize the 7 Leave No Trace principles and apply them every place people live, work, and play, including college campuses and communities. This year, Cleanup
2025 was CitSci’s best year yet! Read our impact report, below, to learn more. Within the report, you’ll find: Together, these highlights reflect an academic year defined by collaboration, learning, and real-world impact. Read the full CitSci Impact Report, embedded earlier in this post, to explore the stories, people, and data behind the year. Next
Choosing how your participants record where their data comes from is one of the most important design choices you’ll make when building a project and datasheet on CitSci.org. That’s why we give you, the project leaders, flexible tools for defining, assigning, and managing sites — whether you’re working with fixed monitoring stations, participant-created sites, or
This was originally published as the second in a series of December 2025 CitSci newsletters. Want citizen science in your inbox? Subscribe today. From code to conservation — your support powers student changemakers. Hello, CitSci community! CitSci is for people of all ages – anyone who wants to do great science. But did you know that
This was originally published as the first in a series of December 2025 CitSci newsletters. Want citizen science in your inbox? Subscribe today. Hello, CitSci community! Every year, people around the world use CitSci to turn curiosity into discovery — tracking clouds for NASA, monitoring ecosystems, and cleaning up communities. At CitSci, we give you the tools
Ever enjoyed an article from the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL)’s EcoPress? Then you have Melissa May to thank! Melissa wears many hats, but we’ll start with her academic one: she is an Ecosystem Science and Sustainability student at Colorado State University (CSU), with a minor in Political Science. Since moving to Colorado in 2018,
Earlier this fall, I had the chance to lead a Lunch N’ Learn at Colorado State University on a deceptively simple but endlessly complex subject: the science of science communication. Why “the science of science communication”? The phrase may sound recursive, but it reflects an important truth: communication itself can be a subject of research.
This was originally published as the July/August 2025 CitSci newsletter. Want citizen science in your inbox? Subscribe today. It’s the start of something new for many, as universities and schools alike worldwide begin a new semester (shout-out to our home institution, Colorado State University!). So, happy academic new year to all who celebrate. 🎊🎉🥳 We’re going into the
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