This was originally published as the June 2025 CitSci newsletter. Want citizen science in your inbox? Subscribe today. Hey from the CitSci team! It’s summer: the days are longer, the skies are weirder (hello, space clouds 👀), and it’s the perfect time to try something new in citizen science. Whether you’re scanning the horizon to
Are you a project leader using the CitSci app or website? If so, you’re part of a global community using an open-source platform to create, manage, and analyze data from citizen science projects. Whether you’re a researcher, educator, community member, or hobbyist, CitSci provides tools to build data collection forms, visualize data, engage participants, and
April is both Citizen Science Month and Earth Month. That means there’s no better time to do science that increases our understanding of the natural world! At CitSci this month, we’re excited to be a partner in SciStarter’s One Million Acts of Science campaign, a global effort to spark over one million science actions—chiefly, logging
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
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
A citizen science project called Off the Roof tested rainwater runoff collected by volunteers. They found that rainwater can be easily treated, but does often have contaminants similar to what’s found in streams and rivers. This blog first appeared in the Citizen Science Salon, a partnership between Discover and SciStarter.org, on 2 Oct 2020. It
With the help of the larger U.S.-Canada community, a team of scientists has sought to understand how an alpine mammal sheds its winter coat. Cover Image: A camera trap on loan to Dr. Kate Nowak from WCS Canada captures a billy mountain goat at Pooly Canyon, Yukon, Canada What do goat hair, climate change, and
Earth Day looks a little different this year, but Earth Challenge 2020 is making sure nobody misses out on the action In a day and age where it feels that everything is changing too fast to keep up, and the uncertainty of life’s circumstances can be overwhelming, it’s easy to question what you can accomplish,
If you want change, you have to make it. This past Black Friday we teamed up with REI and Leave No Trace in the movement towards creating positive impacts in our world. You’re probably familiar with REI’s ongoing campaign to close its doors on the biggest retail day of the year and ask everyone to
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