“As millions of people regroup from the impact of the earthquakes in Nepal, a team of international volunteers is combing through satellite imagery of the region to identify additional hazardsearthquake-induced landslides. As…
Category: Citizen Science
Engaging Citizen Scientists with GPM Observatory
“Every morning at seven, Andrew Welch wakes up, cooks breakfast and checks the rain gauge sitting on a five-foot post in his backyard. He writes down the measurement, sends his kid off…
NASA Citizen Science Asteroid Data, Education, and Tools
“The Citizen science Asteroid Data, Education, and Tools (CADET) is a joint solicitation of the Near Earth Objects (NEO) Program within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the Asteroid Grand Challenge (AGC)…
High School Students Find Pulsar With Widest Orbit Ever Detected
“A team of highly determined high school students discovered a never-before-seen pulsar by painstakingly analyzing data from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Further observations by…
40,000 Amateur Astronomers Have Classified Two Million Objects
“More than 40,000 amateur astronomers have classified two million unidentified heavenly bodies found by the SkyMapper telescope at The Australian National University (ANU). Among the haystack of celestial data, the volunteers uncovered…
New Tool Enables Citizen Scientists to Examine Asteroid Vesta
“NASA has announced the release of Vesta Trek, a free, web-based application that provides detailed visualizations of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in our solar system. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft studied Vesta…
First Radio Galaxy Zoo Paper Submitted
“We find that the RGZ citizen scientists are as effective as the science experts at identifying the radio sources and their host galaxies. Based upon our results from 1 year of operation,…
Citizen Science on the Faroe Islands in Advance of an Eclipse
“On 2015 March 20, a total solar eclipse will occur in the North Atlantic, with the Kingdom of Denmark’s Faroe Islands and Norway’s Svalbard archipelago (formerly Spitzbergen) being the only options for…
Gravitational Lens Modelling in a Citizen Science Context
“We develop a method to enable collaborative modelling of gravitational lenses and lens candidates, that could be used by non-professional lens enthusiasts. It uses an existing free-form modelling program (glass), but enables…
mPING App: Crowdsourcing Weather Reports
The NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory is collecting public weather reports through a free app available for smart phones or mobile devices. The app is called “mPING,” for Meteorological Phenomena Identification Near…
DIY Science: Astrobiology, Using Earth Rocks to Look for Alien Life
“The search for life in space involves scientists of all stripes–biologists, physicists, astronomers, chemists…and geologists? NASA-funded UW-Madison geoscientists use Earth’s rock and fossil record to shape the search for life in our…
Crowdsourcing Exceeds One Million Classifications of Possible Planetary Habitats
“A NASA-sponsored website designed to crowdsource analysis of data from the agency’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has reached an impressive milestone. In less than a year, citizen scientists using DiskDetective.org…