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
Blog post written by Madison Stroker, CSU undergraduate student & CitSci Support Assistant Danielle Backman’s citizen science journey began during her time at Colorado State University (CSU), where she was pursuing her master’s in Anthropology with a focus on Human-Environmental Interactions. What started as an academic interest quickly turned into a hands-on experience when she
Blog post written by Madison Stroker, CSU undergraduate student & CitSci Support Assistant CitSci introduced Ellen Eisenbeis to citizen science – real science anyone can do, usually by collecting or analyzing data – as she finished up her undergraduate degree in Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at Colorado State University (CSU). Ellen was deeply interested in
Blog post written by Madison Stroker, CSU undergraduate student & CitSci Support Assistant Dani Lin Hunter began exploring citizen science – public engagement in scientific research – while a graduate student at Colorado State University (CSU). At first, Dani looked at citizen science with an academic lens, but soon she started to see its potential
Blog post by Madison Stroker & Caroline Nickerson CitSci is an app and website that empowers people worldwide to start and join participatory science projects. The platform provides tools to create projects and datasheets, visualize results, communicate with participants, and share resources. Many projects hosted on CitSci are hyperlocal – for example, focused on one
Blog post by Madison Stroker & Caroline Nickerson CitSci is an app and website that empowers people worldwide to start and join participatory science projects. The platform provides tools to create projects and datasheets, visualize results, communicate with participants, and share resources. Many projects hosted on CitSci are hyperlocal – for example, focused on one
Ever heard the phrase “busy as a beaver”? Turns out, beavers are more than just overachieving rodents with a flair for construction; they’re also ecosystem engineers. And when nature’s little architects are in short supply, humans have to step in with our best imitation – making our own manmade, beaver-like dams (known in the business
Meghan Petersen is a graduate student at Colorado State University, motivated by the interconnection of health and the environment, something she’s experienced first-hand. Signing up for a graduate course in Public Communications led Meghan to a project with CitSci and Leave No Trace where she learned about the many possibilities public science projects can offer.
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