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
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,
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.
Sean Geer is a second-career undergraduate student at Colorado State University, studying Human Dimensions of Natural Resources. Before becoming an intern with CitSci, Sean hadn’t ever heard of public science or citizen science. Sean’s work with our team was mutually beneficial. His past professional experience meant he was confident enough to dive into more challenging
When Brian Fauver set foot on the Colorado State University campus as a new graduate student in 2013, he never expected he’d coauthor a paper in the journal Nature three years later. His research journey began typically enough but the work that led to that Nature publication gave Brian “an expanded worldview of what science
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