Citizen Science

This UK-based citizen science project encourages participants to submit reports of "sick or dead" wildlife so the organization can effectively monitor the health of local animals.

Participants of the GBBC can join others around the world in noting the number and kind of birds that you see. This helps scientists create an incredibly detailed snapshot of bird distributions each year. The next GBBC is taking place February 17-20, 2017.

A project that sent soil samples to volunteer citizen scientists, who would sort through the dirt and mail back their findings. The project has been discountinued due to lack of funding.

This project encourages participants to track flowering plants while hiking in the Appalachian mountains. These data are then used in studies of mountain ecology and climate change.

Check out NASA's citizen science page and help out space exploration efforts by becoming a Martian citizen, a planet disk detective, and much more!