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
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
With a CitSci account, you can personalize your profile and stay up to date on various projects you are involved in. Your user profile records all your activity through CitSci, and can be a helpful tool for tracking your past and current work with different projects. In this tutorial, we will navigate volunteer profiles and
Submitting photos along with observations to a CitSci project can provide valuable information to researchers and other citizen scientists. Through CitSci, you can attach many photos to each observation you submit to a project. In this tutorial, we will walk through how to add photos to observations in CitSci. ProTip: Be sure to have all
Creating an account with CitSci is the first step to becoming part of the CitSci community and accessing our resources for your citizen science project! Having an account with CitSci allows you to create projects, collect data, and find community in the expansive world of citizen science. In this tutorial, we’ll go through each step
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