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
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
This was originally published as the May 2025 CitSci newsletter. Want citizen science in your inbox? Subscribe today. Hey from the CitSci team! We’re kicking off the summer with a major milestone—CitSci’s Extremophile Campaign was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered on May 29! As we reflect on a successful spring of global community science,
This Earth Month (April), university communities across the globe joined forces to clean up their campuses and log the litter for science. The 2025 #LeaveNoTrash University Challenge, co-hosted by CitSci (an app and website for global citizen science engagement) and Leave No Trace (a nonprofit that teaches people how to take care of the outdoors),
This was originally published as the April 2025 CitSci newsletter. Want citizen science in your inbox? Subscribe today. Hey from the CitSci team! It’s a big month—both Citizen Science Month and Earth Month—and we’ve got tons of ways for you to turn curiosity into action. 🌱🔬 CitSci is a proud partner in SciStarter’s One Million
This was originally published as the February 2025 CitSci newsletter. Want citizen science in your inbox? Subscribe today. Hey! It’s the CitSci team. Our Favorite Extreme Sport: Hunting for Microbes We’ve explored the oceans, outer space…but have we explored our dishwashers and air conditioning trays? Microbes—tiny living organisms that can only be seen with a
Upper Left: Caroline Wawira Njeru Upper Right: Lawrence Njoroge Chuka Lower Left: Stephen Njeru Munene Lower Right: Margaret Nyambura Wanjiru A group of young people gathered in Kenya in 2018 to figure out how to establish a bamboo agroecology that would 1) provide a sustainable resource for their community, 2) restore degraded riparian areas, and
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
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