Citizen Science: Projects to Get Involved In
Citizen Science Presentation 4.24.2021
Citizen Science Association Webinars
Project Websites
- I See ChangeWhat you see change in your backyard, neighborhood, and city is important to our understanding of how climate change and weather affect our communities. Your observations and block-by-block insights can help cities, engineers and local organizations advocate for and create solutions to climate challenges. If you or your community has a question or hypothesis about how climate is changing your area, you can also use your ISeeChange account to collect data and answer those questions.
- eBird- East Baton Rouge ParisheBird is among the world’s largest biodiversity-related science projects, with more than 100 million bird sightings contributed annually by eBirders around the world and an average participation growth rate of approximately 20% year over year.
- Journey NorthJourney North provides an easy entry point to citizen science, with simple protocols, strong online support, and immediate results. Reported sightings are mapped in real-time as waves of migrations move across the continent. People report sightings from the field, view maps, take pictures, and leave comments.
- FROGWATCH USAVolunteers are the foundation of the FrogWatch USA community - these trained individuals listen for frogs and toads during evenings from February through August and submit these observations to a national online database.
- Project SquirrelFox squirrels and grey squirrels are two of the most familiar species of wildlife in many neighborhoods and natural areas. In addition to being interesting animals to watch, squirrels can tell us a lot about our local environment and how it is changing. To gain this insight, we must gather data about as many individual squirrels in as many places as possible.
- CitizenScience.govCitizenScience.gov is an official government website designed to accelerate the use of crowdsourcing and citizen science across the U.S. government.
- Citizen Science AssociationThe Citizen Science Association (CSA) is a member-driven organization that connects people from a wide range of experiences around one shared purpose: advancing knowledge through research and monitoring done by, for, and with members of the public.
- Library of Congress: By the PeopleBy the People invites you to transcribe, review, and tag digitized pages from the Library’s collections. Everyone is welcome to take part! Volunteer-created transcriptions improve search, readability, and access to handwritten and typed documents for everyone, including people who are not fully sighted.
- NASA: Citizen Science ProjectsNASA’s citizen science projects are collaborations between scientists and interested members of the public.
- National Geographic Citizen Science ProjectsLearn about how you can participate in citizen science projects.
- Scientific American: Citizen ScienceHelp make science happen by volunteering for a real research project.
- SciStarterSciStarter is a globally acclaimed, online citizen science hub where more than 3,000 projects, searchable by location, topic, age level, etc, have been registered by individual project leaders or imported through partnerships with federal governments, NGOs, and universities.
- Smithsonian Digital Volunteers: Transcription CenterBecome a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer and help us make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible.
- ZooniverseThe Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.
- Letters to a Pre-ScientistLetters to a Pre-Scientist is a collaboration between educators and scientists who want to show kids a more personal view of science, beyond their typical classroom lessons.
- CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network)CoCoRaHS is an acronym for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. CoCoRaHS is a unique, non-profit, community-based network of volunteers of all ages and backgrounds working together to measure and map precipitation (rain, hail and snow).
- Penguin WatchCount penguins, chicks and eggs in far away lands to help us understand their lives and environment.
- GalaxyZooTo understand how galaxies formed we need your help to classify them according to their shapes. If you're quick, you may even be the first person to see the galaxies you're asked to classify. Look at telescope images of distant galaxies. Explore the sky.
- SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence):Run program on your computer that analyzes radio signals from space.
- Lab in the WildLabintheWild tests your abilities and preferences. At the end of each experiment, you will see a page with your personalized feedback, which lets you compare yourself and your performance to other people around the world.
By participating, you contribute to research on people's similarities and differences and help improve users' experience when interacting with technology. - Flu Near YouContribute to your community's health and help track the flu
- Smithsonian Digital Volunteers: Transcription CenterBecome a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer and help us make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible
The Baton Rouge City Nature Challenge
Join the Louisiana Master Naturalists of Greater Baton Rouge in “The City Nature Challenge,” a friendly nature competition that goes on across the globe for four days, April 30 to May 3, 2021.
The competition is to see which city can show the most wildlife in their area, including wild plants, animals, insects, mushrooms, fish, turtles – anything that can be photographed with a smartphone and sent to the iNaturalist app.
Baton Rouge is competing against neighboring Master Naturalist regions of Greater New Orleans and Southwest Louisiana area, as well as other cities all over the world. Taking part is easy!
• Find wildlife (birds, insects, plants, amphibians, reptiles, mammals) in your yard, nearby park, or any other place outside.
• Snap a photo of what you find with your smart phone or digital camera.
• Share your observation on the iNaturalist.org website or on the iNaturalist mobile app and it will be automatically added to the contest project.
The collaboration/contest begins April 30 at 12:01 a.m. in each time zone and runs through May 3, 11:59 p.m. People of all ages are encouraged to participate and the collective scientific efforts from participants around the world will be tallied with results announced on May 10.
The City Nature Challenge was created by the California Academy of Science and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in 2016 and has expanded the citizen science event to take place on six continents. Observations gathered during these surveys become open-source data that help scientists inform resource management and detect patterns of global change
For more information, visit www.brnaturechallenge.org or contact The Louisiana Master Naturalists of Greater Baton Rouge at info@lmngbr.org.
- City Nature Challenge 2021Flyer for Event