A citizen science microplastic monitoring method was developed to engage the public and quantify microplastic contamination at various sites along an approximately 550km length of the Ottawa River from Lake Temiskaming to Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada. The volunteers filtered 100L of river water through ...
Citizen science projects are the scientific equivalent of crowdsourced projects like the Wikipedia and open street maps. The number and scope of such projects has increased greatly in recent years thanks to simplified geolocation and the Internet2,3. Some early projects involved the passive ...
Zooniverse now offers several citizen science projects, including three more using NASA data. Moon Zoo volunteers use data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to count craters, helping write the history of the moon. Milky Way project participants scour infrared images gathered in twoNASASpitzer ...
Website:http://ebird.org/content/canada/ Birdwatching is the granddaddy of citizen science, and eBird is birding’s biggest database.The Ontario eBird community alone has notched ten million observations. The eBird app is a real-time online checklist that includes birds around the world. One ni...
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Traditional data sources are not sufficient for measuring the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. New and non-traditional sources of data are required. Citizen science is an emerging example of a non-traditional data source that is already maki
Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) empowers participants to design their own projects, such as this initiative to map the forests of Komo, Republic of the Congo. Credit: Gill Conquest/EXCITES, University College London From keeping track of illegal poaching activity to finding black holes in deep ...
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“Space weather”, in order to allow member States of the Committee and international organizations having permanent observer status with the Committ ee to exchange views on national, regional and international activities related to space weather science and outreach, as well as the societal impacts ...
He started working when he was very young, in farming, carpentry and plumbing before joining the military. Cooper is proud to have been a member of Canada’s first parachute brigade, which he joined in 1943, and was deployed to England in December 1944, near the end of the S...