Citizen Science

With the worldwide spread of home computers and smart phones connected to the Internet, Citizen Science is blossoming today and making an important contribution to a diverse array of sciences. We can expect that the contribution of Citizen Science will become even greater in the near future - perhaps with the advent of a 'weather-station-on-a-chip' that may be as much a part of the home PC and cell phone of the future as the camera lens is today!

Wikipedia Definition    Enhancing the Quality and Trust of Citizen Science Data   Citizen Science Alliance

Science blogs and public engagement with science: practices, challenges, and opportunities

Scientific mediation: on social processes, contexts and networks in which scientists are embedded

Users and peers. From citizen science to P2P science   Technoscience, technological cultures and socialisation

Public scientific communication: reflections on the public and its participation forms

The socialisation of scientific and technological research      

Tapping Social Media’s Potential To Muster a Vast Green Army

Five ways to turn your students into citizen scientists   

Climateprediction.net    Ventus: locating & monitoring power plant sites

Climate Central Announcement    Weather-at-Home    Old Weather   HMS New Zealand

UK submarine data de-classified to aid climate science 

Earthquake sensors to be distributed across Southern California

Volunteers help California build quake sensor network

How to reach exascale today with 50 million or a few more laptops

Shirky and Sanger, or the costs of crowdsourcing   Crowdsourcing a better world

Embedding science in society: a European perspective     Project Noah

CERN Launches Citizen Cyber-Infrastructure Project     CCC Slide Deck    Citizen Cyberscience Centre   

Citizen scientists help monitor radiation in Japan

The Largest Telescope Ever Built Will Rely On Citizens to Analyze Its Reams of Data 

The OSRIS-Rex Mission - an asteroid sample return mission   

My Galaxy   Galaxy Zoo  The Andromeda Project   Help NASA Build Smartphone Apps

Amateur astronomers boost ESA's asteroid hunt     Citizen Sky Project      The Milky Way Project

Great World Wide Star Count   Planet Hunters    Amateur skywatchers help space hazards team

The First Two Planet Candidates Identified by the Public using the Kepler Public Archive Data

Citizen Science Reveals Unexpected Continental-Scale Evolutionary Change in a Model Organism  

World Community Grid     Eye on Earth