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April is Citizen Science Month!

Discusses citizen or participatory science, including its benefits and key ethical issues. Our guest today is Lisa Rasmussen who is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina Charlotte and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Accountability in Research. Lisa has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator on over $1 million in National Science Foundation awards and serves as a Co-Editor of the book series Philosophy and Medicine and an Associate Editor of the publication Citizen Science: Theory and Practice.   Additional resources: Association for the Advancement of Participatory Sciences: https://participatorysciences.org/ Citizen Science: Theory and Practice: https://theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/ Citizen Science: How Ordinary People are Changing the Face of Discovery: https://scistarter.com/cooper SciStarter: https://scistarter.org/ 

In this episode of the SciStarter podcast, we feature Joro spiders, Big Brown Bats and a project for sleuthing out the secret stories of cemeteries.   Projects and websites in this episode:   ⁠Joro Watch⁠   ⁠Bats Count!⁠ ⁠Stroll Through the Cemetery/GoBituary⁠ ⁠Mt Auburn Cemetery Citizen Science⁠ ⁠Wyndham Cemetery⁠ Image and Music Credits:   Black throated green warbler on statue Credit: emydee1, ⁠CC BY-SA 4.0⁠ via Wikimedia Commons   Big Brown Bat Credit: Paul Cryan, USGS, Public Domain via Flickr Creative Commons   Big Brown Bat in blue glove Credit: Celley/USFWS, public domain via Flickr Creative Commons   Joro Spider Credit: ⁠Jef Wodniack⁠, iStock   Miami Cemetery photos Credit: Miami City Cemetery   Mount Auburn Cemetery Credit: Ralph.Torello, public domain via Flickr Creative Commons   Koala Credit: Jordimaringuasch, public domain via Flickr Creative Commons Music:   ⁠Pharmacy Party⁠ Steven Combs ⁠Theme E⁠ Steven Combs and Delta Is ⁠Podcast Theme⁠ Kevin Hartnell  

In this episode of the SciStarter podcast, we feature Joro spiders, Big Brown Bats and a project for sleuthing out the secret stories of cemeteries.   Projects and websites in this episode: ⁠Joro Watch⁠   ⁠Bats Count!⁠ ⁠Stroll Through the Cemetery/GoBituary⁠ ⁠Mt Auburn Cemetery Citizen Science⁠ ⁠Wyndham Cemetery⁠ Image and Music Credits:   Black throated green warbler on statue Credit: emydee1, ⁠CC BY-SA 4.0⁠ via Wikimedia Commons   Big Brown Bat Credit: Paul Cryan, USGS, Public Domain via Flickr Creative Commons   Big Brown Bat in blue glove Credit: Celley/USFWS, public domain via Flickr Creative Commons   Joro Spider Credit: ⁠Jef Wodniack⁠, iStock   Miami Cemetery photos Credit: Miami City Cemetery   Mount Auburn Cemetery Credit: Ralph.Torello, public domain via Flickr Creative Commons   Koala Credit: Jordimaringuasch, public domain via Flickr Creative Commons Music:   ⁠Pharmacy Party⁠ Steven Combs ⁠Theme E⁠ Steven Combs and Delta Is ⁠Podcast Theme⁠ Kevin Hartnell

SciStarter Podcast S5E9: Global Bird Migration   Billions of birds are on the move for the fall migration, flying to points south, with many covering thousands of miles. In this podcast, world-renowned ornithologist Pete Marra discusses the migration and the challenges that migratory birds face, as well as what we can do to help monitor and protect them.   Projects and Websites in this episode:   The Earth Commons, Georgetown University https://earthcommons.georgetown.edu/   SciStarter.org/Flyways https://scistarter.org/flyways?utm_campaign=NL0924_2FallBirds&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_source=Flyways   BirdCast https://scistarter.org/birdcast?utm_campaign=NL0924_2FallBirds&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_source=BirdCast   Audubon Bird Migration Explorer https://explorer.audubon.org/home?layersPanel=expand   Image Credits:   Geese flying by orange moon Alamy Stock Photo   Arrow Stork Image: Zoologische Sammlung der Universität Rostock,  CC BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66997013   White Stork Migration Map: Image Credit: Bamse CC BY-SA 3.0   Magnolia Warbler Susan Young, Lantana Preserve Flickr Creative Common, public domain https://flic.kr/p/2oDHDdE

SciStarter S5E6 Info and Credits Every season has its own unique sights, sounds and other sensations. In this episode of the SciStarter podcast, we look at fireflies, listen to cicadas, feel the ocean waves and extend our senses beyond the bounds of our planet.   Music:  Pharmacy Party Steven Combs Theme E Steven Combs and Delta Is SciStarter Theme: Podcast Theme Kevin Hartnell

SciStarter S5E6 Info and Credits Every season has its own unique sights, sounds and other sensations. In this episode of the SciStarter podcast, we look at fireflies, listen to cicadas, feel the ocean waves and extend our senses beyond the bounds of our planet. Credits: Firefly Closeup Terry Priest CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic   Surfing Beach Video Wu Chunchi, Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0   Photuris firefly on leaf Katja Schulz CC by 2.0 Photuris firefly on white bg Brian Gratwicke CC by 2.0 Photuris bethaniansis Kayt Jonsson, US FWS Public Domain Phausis firefly Paul Marek CC by 4.0 Pyractomena firefly Judy Gallagher CC by 2.0 Photinus firefly Dan Mullen CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Cicadas on Leaves F. Delventhal CC by 2.0 Cicadas on concrete post Martin Labar CC BY-NC 2.0 Surfrider origin images Credit: SurfRider Foundation   Save the Waves promotional clips Credit: Save the Waves   Music: Pharmacy Party Steven Combs Theme E Steven Combs and Delta Is SciStarter Theme: Podcast Theme Kevin Hartnell

In this episode of the SciStarter podcast, we recap Citizen Science Month, the April solar eclipse, learn about a new episode of the Wild Hope video series on rewilding landscapes, building vernal pools, and an unusual fish that swims ashore to mate. Projects and resources featured include: Project FeederWatch   iNaturalist Squirrel Mapper Project Squirrel Stall Catchers Wild Hope NASA Eclipse Debrief Project Budburst Journey North Bumble Bee Watch   Ask A Bumble Bee Grunion Greeters Credits:   Grunion video: Michael Murrie, Pepperdine University   Podcast Theme Kevin Hartnell   Additional Music: Mess Steven Combs   Pharmacy Party Steven Combs

It's scitizen science month! Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat to Emma Giles and Bob Hirshorn from SciStarter abot dolphin chat and manatee chat, two ocean-themed citizen science projects taht you can find at SciStarter.com. If you liked this show please support us so we can keep providing more content,  $1 helps : www.patreon.com/marineconservation  Contact info@absolutelysmashingllc.com for more information about sponsoring MCHH episodes or having advertisments on the show Music credits By Jolly Shore Leave  "Al For Me Grog (Trad.)" HandsomeForrune-FE (Adapted Lyrics by Taran Christen : Musical Arrangement by K. Ryan Hart) Represented by Rebellious Entertainment Dr Scarlett Smash Instagram Dr Scarlett Smash TikTok  Dr Craken MacCraic Twitter Dr Craken MacCraic Instagram MCHH Instagram MCHH Facebook MCHH Twitter Dr Scarlett Smash Twitter  Dr Scarlett Smash YouTube

What were the strange noises heard in Tampa that drove people and pets crazy? Find out in this week's episode when Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat to Bob Hirshon and Emma Giles from SciStarter about citizen science projects in the ocean. If you liked this show please support us so we can keep providing more content,  $1 helps : www.patreon.com/marineconservation  Contact info@absolutelysmashingllc.com for more information about sponsoring MCHH episodes or having advertisments on the show Music credits By Jolly Shore Leave  "Al For Me Grog (Trad.)" HandsomeForrune-FE (Adapted Lyrics by Taran Christen : Musical Arrangement by K. Ryan Hart) Represented by Rebellious Entertainment Dr Scarlett Smash Instagram Dr Scarlett Smash TikTok  Dr Craken MacCraic Twitter Dr Craken MacCraic Instagram MCHH Instagram MCHH Facebook MCHH Twitter Dr Scarlett Smash Twitter  Dr Scarlett Smash YouTube

Learn how to move science lessons from complicated and boring to applicable and interest-led so your kids won't just learn about science, but will approach life, decisions, and learning with inquisitiveness, leading to a deep understanding of how the world works. Our special guest this week on Empowering Homeschool Conversations was Tina Salmanowitz, a teacher, homeschooling mom, and owner of Little Monster's Universe, science-based homeschooling curriculum for building lifelong science learners. Tina shared with us about "Science at Home: A Homeschool Parent's to Integrating STEM into Everyday Life." Viewers like you funded similar episodes, and other free resources from SPED Homeschool. To learn how you can support the nonprofit work of SPED Homeschool and this broadcast, visit https://spedhomeschool.com/donate/ To connect with Tina and her resources, use this link: Website: https://littlemonstersuniverse.com/ Here is other resources Tina shared with us in this broadcast: Citizen Science: iNaturalist - upload photos and report findings online, https://www.inaturalist.org/ SciStarter - https://scistarter.org/ CitizenScience.gov -https://www.citizenscience.gov/# Science Literature: A First Science Storybook series Magic School Bus Series Arbordale Publishing Blogs: Science Shows: https://littlemonstersuniverse.com/educational-entertainment-our-top-tv-picks-for-homeschool-scientists/ Outdoor science activities https://littlemonstersuniverse.com/outdoor-homeschool-science-activities/ To find out more about SPED Homeschool, visit our website at https://spedhomeschool.com/ Check out our most recent articles on SPED Homeschool at https://spedhomeschool.com/articles/ Click here to power up your at home teaching with courses and downloadable hand-selected for you! https://empoweredhomeschool.com/Join our mission to empower homeschool families!: https://spedhomeschool.com/donate/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Squirrels are fun, fascinating and sometimes infuriating, and also the focus of some amazing citizen science. Learn more about them in this episode of SciStarter's Citizen Science Podcast!   Projects and Websites mentioned in this podcast are: Squirrel Mapper https://scistarter.org/squirrelmapper Project Squirrel https://scistarter.org/project-squirrel Seek https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/ Zooniverse https://www.zooniverse.org/ Citizen Science Month: One Million Acts of Science https://scistarter.org/citizensciencemonth Macauley Library's Best Bird Photos of 2024 https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/macaulay-librarys-best-bird-photos-2024/?__hstc=161696355.15fcc8de350a1a8b773b79c5eed9a2d0.1705541103104.1705541103104.1705541103104.1&__hssc=161696355.1.1705541103104&__hsfp=1354570303&_gl=1*1m8wr2z*_ga*MTkzODQ4MDM0Mi4xNzA1MzY3MjIw*_ga_QR4NVXZ8BM*MTcwNTU0MTEwMS4xLjAuMTcwNTU0MTEwMS42MC4wLjA.&_ga=2.11040432.529497690.1705541102-1938480342.1705367220 HamSCI https://hamsci.org/ Project FRESH Air http://www.hollerlab.com/fresh-air.html Schools' Air Quality Monitoring for Health and Education (SAMHE) https://www.sei.org/projects/samhe/#:~:text=The%20SAMHE%20research%20team%EF%BB%BF,with%20temperature%20and%20relative%20humidity AirCasting https://scistarter.org/aircasting Drug Sniffing Squirrels video https://youtu.be/RY-dyiv5TR0?si=AjcX9ObPV9iCaNwL   Podcast Theme by Kevin Hartnell https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_Hartnell/CC_BY-SA_40/Kevin_Hartnell_-_CC_BY-SA_40_-_09_Podcast_Theme/  

Squirrels are fun, fascinating and sometimes infuriating, and also the focus of some amazing citizen science. Learn more about them in this episode of SciStarter's Citizen Science Podcast! Projects and Websites mentioned in this podcast are: Squirrel Mapper Project Squirrel Seek iNaturalist Zooniverse Citizen Science Month: One Million Acts of Science Macauley Library's Best Bird Photos of 2024 HamSCI Project FRESH Air Schools' Air Quality Monitoring for Health and Education (SAMHE)  AirCasting Drug Sniffing Squirrels video Podcast Theme by Kevin Hartnell  

You: There must be lots of cool science events, projects and other opportunities right in my own neighborhood... but how do I find them? Us: With Science Near Me! It's a National Science Foundation-supported project that partners SciStarter with museums, science centers, state-based education councils and other sources of quality science projects and activities to bring science opportunities right to your phone or computer! Learn more about it in this month's video podcast. Projects mentioned in this podcast are: Science Near Me STEM Near Me (Alabama) Alabama STEM Council Dragonfly Swarm Project Music Credit: Podcast Theme, by Keith Hartnell  

How do you find science events, projects and other opportunities right in your own neighborhood? With Science Near Me, a National Science Foundation-supported project that partners SciStarter with museums, science centers, state-based education councils and other sources of quality science projects and activities to bring science opportunities right to your phone or computer. Projects mentioned in this podcast are: Science Near Me STEM Near Me (Alabama) Alabama STEM Council Dragonfly Swarm Project Music Credit: Podcast Theme, by Keith Hartnell    

The sun is now entering the “solar maximum,” the time during its 11-year solar cycle when it's most active, producing sunspots and solar flares. There are also two solar eclipses coming up over a six-month period. Not coincidentally, we're also now beginning the Heliophysics Big Year, when solar science researchers are most active, and there are a variety of citizen science opportunities to bring the public along for the ride. Links mentioned in this podcast include: www.Scistarter.org/nasa www.SciStarter.org/eclipse NASA Heliophysics Big Year Citizen CATE Eclipse Soundscapes Data Collector   Eclipse Soundscapes Observer NASA Heliophysics Big Year Zines NASA Eclipse Map

Did you know that one of the major players in the field of citizen science is NASA? At the 2023 annual conference of the Citizen Science Association, NASA held a full day of workshops for project leaders working on their many citizen science projects. In this podcast, we learn about three of them, and also hear from NASA Citizen Science Officer Marc Kuchner. Projects and programs mentioned in this podcast include: Do NASA Science Live! SciStarter.org/NASA Citizen Science Association C*Sci 23 Citizen CATE Aurorasaurus Are We Alone In The Universe? SciStarter Podcast Theme Music: Podcast Theme by Kevin Hartnell Title Image Credit: UCLA SETI and Yuri Beletsky  

Did you know that one of the major players in the field of citizen science is NASA? At the 2023 annual conference of the Citizen Science Association, NASA held a full day of workshops for project leaders working on their many citizen science projects. In this podcast, we learn about three of them, and also hear from NASA Citizen Science Officer Marc Kuchner. Projects and programs mentioned in this podcast include: Do NASA Science Live! SciStarter.org/NASA Citizen Science Association C*Sci 23 Citizen CATE Aurorasaurus Are We Alone In The Universe? SciStarter Podcast Theme Music: Podcast Theme by Kevin Hartnell Title Image Credit: UCLA SETI and Yuri Beletsky Orange Annular Eclipse Credit: NASA Blue total eclipse, Flickr Public Domain, Credit: Jamie Kohns Aurora video and still image: Flickr Public Domain, Credit: Paul Stewart  

In this special presentation, join All of Us Wisconsin and SciStarter to discuss diseases that impact our community and how you can help with the research. Researchers need your help to change the future of medicine. The All of Us Research Program is inviting one million people across the U.S. to help build one of the most diverse health databases in history. They welcome participants from all backgrounds, and researchers will use the data to learn how our biology, lifestyle, and environment affect health. This can help researchers find ways to treat and prevent disease. All of Us promises to take personal data from a diverse cross-section of volunteers and turn it into groundbreaking insights about the complex roles our genes, lifestyles and environments play in our health. Learn more and sign up to join this important effort today! https://www.joinallofus.org/nlm-csm2023

Únase a SciStarter, Globe Observer: CLOUDS y al programa de investigación All of Us para un evento en línea en español que celebra El Día del Idioma. El 23 de abril. fue establecido por el Departamento de Información Pública de la ONU en 2010, con el objetivo de "celebrar el multilingüismo y la diversidad cultural, así como promover el uso igualitario de los seis idiomas oficiales de trabajo en toda la organización"este día Fue determinado para celebrar El Día de el Idioma Español. SOBRE LOS SOCIOS DEL EVENTO SciStarter ayuda a reunir a millones de personas curiosas que están preocupadas en el mundo por cambios significativos ofreciendo miles de oportunidades para participar en preguntas de investigación del mundo real en colaboración con investigadores, comunidades, organizaciones, empresas; que proveen recursos, productos y servicios permitiendo a las personas realizar y disfrutar estas actividades mientras aprenden y aceleran investigaciones importantes. Juntos, podemos ayudar a responder preguntas que no pueden responderse solos. https://SciStarter.org/NLM GLOBE Observer es una iniciativa internacional de ciencia ciudadana para comprender nuestro entorno global. Sus observaciones ayudan a los científicos a rastrear los cambios en las nubes y con el apoyo de la investigación climática. Los científicos también usan sus datos para verificar datos satelitales de la NASA. Cuando envían sus investigaciones, puede ayudar a estudiantes de todas las edades a realizar más investigaciones científicas reales como parte del Programa GLOBE. https://scistarter.org/globe-observer... El futuro de la medicina individualizada puede depender de un ejército de aproximadamente un millón de voluntarios. Los científicos quieren que tu también te involucres en el Programa de Investigación “All of Us" Que es una parte clave del Mes de la Ciencia Ciudadana. https://www.joinallofus.org/nlm-csm2023

"A citizen scientist is anyone who is curious about the world and eager to help explore and understand it,” explains National Science Foundation director, Sethuraman Panchanathan. Caroline Nickerson advises SciStarter, one of the allied network of organizations promoting citizen science and April as Citizen Science Month. Her citizen science enthusiasm is infectious! Learn more about SciStarter and Citizen Science Month: https://scistarter.org We mentioned these studies in our conversation. Check them out! Crowd the Tap: https://scistarter.org/crowd-the-tap Land Loss Lookout: https://cartosco.pe/kioskProject.html#/hubPage/landloss2016 Stream Selfie: https://scistarter.org/stream-selfie All of Us: https://allofus.nih.gov Yale Music Lab: https://www.themusiclab.org Theme music by Sean Balick. "Waterborne" by Algae Fields, via Blue Dot Sessions.

The All of Us Research Program is inviting one million people across the U.S. to help build one of the most diverse health databases in history. They welcome participants from all backgrounds, and researchers will use the data to learn how our biology, lifestyle, and environment affect health. This can help researchers find ways to treat and prevent disease. In this podcast, we re-broadcast SciStarter's own Caroline Nickerson discussing All of Us Wisconsin on the radio show Men Making Health a Priority on Wisconsin radio station 101.7 The Truth. Projects and Websites mentioned in this podcast include: SciStarter The Future of Health Research With All of Us Wisconsin (live event is April 18, 2023)  

Join host Bob Hirshon, SciStarter founder Darlene Cavalier, Arizona State University's Deron Ash, Henry Reges from the weather watching project CoCoRaHS, and children's book author Susan Edwards Richmond for a special holiday podcast, featuring over a dozen great gift ideas for citizen science lovers! (Image: The crew of Expedition 46 decorated the International Space Station's Cupola module, a 360-degree series of windows that provides a stunning view of Earth for observations. Wikimedia, Public Domain.) Links to projects and websites mentioned in this podcast: Globe at Night AirCasting Raven CleanAir Map CO2 Monitor Review in New York Times Wirecutter iNaturalist CoCoRaHS Susan Edwards Richmond Links to Gift Ideas: Books! The Field Guide to Citizen Science by Darlene Cavalier BioBlitz! & BirdCount by Susan Edwards Richmond Citizen Science Tools! Airbeam 3 Sky Quality Meter (SQM-L) Discount Code: GAN-USE Aranet 4 Home (Email Dr. Freimark @ Freimark@saftehnika.com to request a discount) CoCoRaHS Rain Gauge and The Year-End Fundraiser For more ideas, visit our Library Build-A-Kit Page to find supplemental supplies to participate in specific citizen science projects Recommendation by a LIVE attendee: Foldscopes (Great gift for teachers!)   

Yes, Benjamin Franklin was a founding father of the United States, helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was the first Postmaster General. But he was also an energetic citizen scientist (even though the word "scientist" didn't yet exist). He studied electricity, the Gulf Stream, refrigeration and meteorology, and he published his research. He even conducted experiments on using electricity to cook turkeys! Michael Madeja is Director of Education at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, a society founded by Franklin himself. In this special "minisode" of the SciStarter podcast, Madeja discusses some of Franklin's achievements and corrects some misconceptions about one of America's founding "citizen scientists."

It's spring, and the birds are back in town, so we're dedicating this episode of the SciStarter podcast to our avian neighbors. Get a peak into the secret world of woodpeckers, monitor the effects of climate change on birds, and learn how even city-dwellers can participate in bird research. Projects and websites featured in this podcast are: Woodpecker Cavity Cam Audubon's Climate Watch Celebrate Urban Birds    

Science Near Me is a national website that aims to connect the general public to scientific research and events. Oregon State University's STEM Research Center helped launch the tool. Martin Storksdieck is the director of the center and a professor at OSU. Science Near Me is a subsidiary of SciStarter, a citizen science platform. Darlene Cavalier is the founder of SciStarter. They join us with details.

By donating your time, energy and, for one project, a saliva and blood sample, you can help researchers make life-saving medical discoveries. In this episode, we focus on three of the many health-related citizen science projects in the SciStarter database. Projects and websites featured in this podcast are: National Library of Medicine/ All of Us Mobile Health and Movement Assessment Outbreaks Near Me (formerly, COVID Near You)  

This week we are looking at another fun area of work in libraries: citizen science! You could bring in citizen science programs, use it to connect your materials to STEM work in different classes in your school, and of course you can just enjoy some science books! We have a special Guest Host this week: Caroline Nickerson. She is the Senior Program Director at SciStarter.  You can check out our full show notes here, with links to all the resources we share, the beverages we enjoy, and the books we discuss!

As a citizen scientist, you can help researchers explore the causes, effects and potential responses to global climate change and other environmental issues. And you can do it from home or out in the field! In this episode of Citizen Science: Stories of Science We Can Do Together, we explore six projects coming at the issue from six very different angles.  Discover these and many other climate change-focused and environment-related citizen science volunteer opportunities through the SciStarter Project Finder! Projects featured in this podcast episode include: Caroline Nickerson's Miss Louisiana Earth featured projects Climate Change in Scripted Media OSDG Community Platform Climate History Australia Urban Buzz Ghosts of the Coast Ripple Effects via the Citizen Science, Civics and Resilient Communities program supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Find other NOAA-supported citizen science pages hosted by science centers and museums on SciStarter. The article by Max Cawley (of the Museum of Life + Science in Durham, North Carolina) that Caroline mentions in the episode intro is on the SciStarter Blog. Transcript for this episode coming soon on the SciStarter Podcast page.

We found the song of the summer! The "Citizen Scientist Song" was written and recorded by Monty Harper for SciStarter.org. You can find Monty on Twitter @montyharper and his website is www.montyharper.com.  Enjoy!  

NASA offers an entire universe of citizen science projects, and at CitSciCon – the first-of-its-kind online event series that was hosted by the Citizen Science Association and SciStarter in May of 2021 – project leaders and volunteers from dozens of those projects shared their stories. Check out this podcast to hear some of those stories, and if you'd like to learn more and participate in the featured projects, visit SciStarter's NASA CitSciCon webpage (https://SciStarter.org/NASA). You'll find links to the original livestreamed events, and project pages for all of these exciting citizen science volunteer opportunities!   Projects mentioned in this podcast include:   Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Disk Detective GLOBE Observer: Trees Fjord Phyto iNaturalist NASA NeMO-Net Coral Classification GLOBE Observer: Landcover Snapshot Wisconsin   Access a transcript of the episode.   

Citizen Science Month is an opportunity to showcase the entire panoply of citizen science projects all over the world, and we try to capture it all in this roundup episode. Which isn't possible. But we do hope this show gives you a taste of what the month had to offer. If you want to go deeper, you can learn more at CitizenScienceMonth.org. Video of some of the webinars described in this podcast can be found at SciStarter.org/Citizen-Science-Videos   Projects mentioned in this podcast include:   SciQuest Caterpillars Count Public Editor Demo Watch Fjord Phyto GLOBE Observer: Clouds Happywhale OpenStreetMap Globe at Night Stall Catchers GLOBE Observer: Mosquito Habitat Mapper Safecast iNaturalist Marine Debris Tracker  All of Us   Access a transcript.

Darlene Cavalier is a professor at Arizona State University and the founder of SciStarter, Science Cheerleaders, and cofound of ECAST.  She joins us to talk about Citizen Science Month and all of the ways that you can help scientists do research.Sorry, y'all really long intro this week!April listener contest winner at: 5:00Main story at: 17:48Show notesThe Library & Community Guide to Citizen Science  SciStarterZooniverseStephanie Peters ArtistAOS Community Congress on English Bird NamesDavid Yarnold Stepping Down Audubon for All Union TwitterIntro Bird Call: Wilson’s Warbler (Recorded May 2019 Cannon Beach, OR)Outro Bird Call: American Crow (Recorded April 2021, Cannon Beach, OR)Connect with us at...IG: @Hannahgoesbirding and @Erikgoesbirding Twitter: @WeGoBirding Facebook: @HannahandErikGoBirding Email us at HannahandErikGoBirding@gmail.com Website: http://www.gobirdingpodcast.com

Public libraries are playing an increasingly important role in citizen science, running educational programs – both in-person and online – and loaning out kits with citizen science instruments, material and other resources. And they are very involved with Citizen Science Month. In this podcast episode, Caroline and Bob speak with library-based partners implementing ambitious plans for Citizen Science Month and beyond. Guests include Robin Salthouse, formerly of the Southeast Regional Library in Gilbert, Arizona and now an advisor to the SciStarter team; Alynda Smithey a Children’s/Youth Services Librarian from the Riverside Regional Library in Missouri; Don Ficken, President of International Dark Sky Association - Missouri Chapter; and Vivienne Byrd, Librarian III - Lead on STEM/STEAM & Citizen Science Initiatives at the Los Angeles Public Library. All of them have planned events for you to discover throughout April on CitizenScienceMonth.org!    Projects mentioned in this podcast include:   Globe at Night Stall Catchers GLOBE Observer: Mosquito Habitat Mapper GLOBE Observer: Clouds ISeeChange iNaturalist Marine Debris Tracker   Access a transcript of this episode as a PDF.

Want to hear Generation Z and Millennials go head to head on some of the most pressing issues of our time? Tune into this discussion about business (5:12), life (13:38), technology/social media (27:56) and politics (43:48). We hope you enjoyed our Gen Z/Millennial series! Guest Information: Keep up with the Gen Zs Zoe and Lucia on Instagram: @girlswithgoals.miami Caroline (@CHNickerson on all social media) is program manager at @SciStarter, where she helps people discover real science they can do to monitor water quality, advance health research, study light pollution & more. Join the Born Zillennial group on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/bornzillennial and check out their Spotify playlists: https://open.spotify.com/user/5p5ymyr0qwl9n9b242a41szon Find the group's founder Matt Duffy on Twitter: @matt_duffy & on Instagram and TikTok: @mduffy_ Enjoyed this Episode? Rate us on Apple Podcasts. Find us on Instagram: @Uncharted20s and on Facebook: @Uncharted20spodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uncharted20s/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uncharted20s/support

This week, I talk to Darlene Cavalier, the founder of SciStarter, which is a website where ordinary people sign up to help scientists collect data for various research projects. Darlene has recently been named a National Geographic Fellow and Explorer. SciStarter has a wide variety of projects to choose from! The biggest challenge would be deciding which ones to participate in. So many projects, so little time...Also, Chuck Darwin tells us what a Scientist actually does, Jack answers a viewer's question about how many school years it takes to be a Scientist, and Tito gives us a list of characteristics of a good Scientist! Do you have what it takes? Find out on today's show, How to Be a Kid Scientist!Links for this show:https://scistarter.org/https://scistarter.org/educationApp mention on the Show:NASA Globe Observer appWatch this episode on YouTube:https://youtu.be/fG0wrFbaua4Other links:Website: https://www.weirdandwackyplanet.com/FaceBook: https://facebook.com/weirdandwackyplanetInstagram: https://instagram.com/weirdandwackyplanetTwitter: https://twitter.com/kbcarrauthoremail: naturejustgotreal@gmail.comGet the Weird & Wacky Planet series: https://www.amazon.com/K-B-Carr/e/B00XIZ9ASWGet a FREE ebook: https://www.weirdandwackyplanet.com/free-bookShop the Weird & Wacky Planet Store: https://www.weirdandwackyplanet.com/store

If a bat handed you a margarita, would you take it? How about $3.7 billion?Controlling agricultural pests and promoting the health of agave plants—used to make tequila—are just a couple of the superheroic services bats provide our ecosystems and economies. In this high-flying episode, bat conservationist Kristen Lear introduces Jocelyn and Bradley to the magnificent variety and diverse talents of bat species, busting a few myths along the way. Kristen explains that she has long been drawn to bats as “underdogs,” and she tells us how she has traveled the globe and climbed an actual, literal mountain of bat guano to study them. She also shares her current project integrating ecology with social sciences research to develop bat-friendly agave management strategies in Mexico. Finally, the friends discuss how our land use patterns have altered bats’ habitats in ways that exacerbate the threat of zoonotic diseases like COVID-19, and how we can mitigate the threat to protect the health of bat and human populations moving forward.You can find Kristen on Twitter @BatsForLife, Instagram @batsforlife_kristen, and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/ratsandcanoes. You can also learn more about her amazing work on her website at https://kristenlear.wixsite.com/batconservation/ and at the links below.National Geographic Explorer: https://youtu.be/3qn4EAU4wsU Mission Unstoppable: https://youtu.be/o0qlgNKKwnQ Skype a Scientist: https://youtu.be/yMXo7FFgwF0 Exploring By the Seat of Your Pants: https://youtu.be/hp1DeznlG7Y Sustainability Spotlight: https://youtu.be/oTx8ciBXn8I Looking for the Mexican Long-nosed Bat: https://vimeo.com/228372359 “Economic Importance of Bats in Agriculture,” Science (2011): https://science.sciencemag.org/content/332/6025/41.fullBat-inspired drones:https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/engineers-build-robot-drone-mimics-bat-flight-53794 https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/01/pentagon-seeks-laser-powered-bat-drones/144964/ https://phys.org/news/2019-02-flight-smarter-nimbler-drones.html Medical advancements inspired by bats:Echolocating cane for the blind: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/bioinspired-assistive-devices/ https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239181 Stroke medication: https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/draculin-stroke-drug-from-vampire-bats-moves-closer-to-circulation Bat tongue-inspired surgical robots: https://news.mongabay.com/2013/05/bats-tongue-could-inspire-miniature-surgical-robot-design/ Bat Conservation International: http://www.batcon.org/ Bat Conservation International's Agave Restoration Initiative for endangered Mexican long-nosed bats: http://www.batcon.org/our-work/initiatives/agave-restoration Citizen science projects:SciStarter: https://scistarter.org/finder?phrase=bats Wildlife Acoustics: https://youtu.be/CDm3_Ax_DC8 Project Noah North American Bat Tracker: https://www.projectnoah.org/missions/18306114 Flowers for Bats Campaign: https://fws.usanpn.org/Campaigns/flowersforbats The IF/THEN initiative: https://www.ifthenshecan.org/ https://twitter.com/IfThenSheCan...Contact Science! With Friends (especially if you are a scientist interested in a lively conversation about your science and science story) at Gmail or Twitter!• Gmail: sciwithfriends@gmail.com• Twitter @SciWithFriends• Facebook: Science With FriendsScience! With Friends Podcast is created and hosted by Jocelyn Bosley (@SciTalker) and Bradley Nordell (@bradleynordell), Produced and edited by Vince Ruhl.

This week on The Children's Hour, we learn all about porcupines. Kids are leading the research into these mysterious and elusive creatures in the Middle Rio Grande Valley with the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Project - BEMP. It's just one project of citizen science we'll explore. Find out how you can be part of a mission to help NASA grow green chile in space. We've got great music on this show too. Find citizen science resources from BEMP here. Learn about CoCoRahs! There are more than 3000 citizen science projects at SciStarter. Show 10 25 50 100 entries Search: This is the playlist for the Citizen Science & Porcupines show titleartistalbumdurationlabel Stay At HomeDoctor NoizeStay At Home03:00Cory Cullinan 2020 Wash Your HandsThe Happy RacersSingle01:30SpinBoxClub - 2020 PorcupineSeth HoffmanSingle00:59Seth Hoffman PuercoespinTrepsiMusi00:58 2012 Catapult PorcupineArtichoke26 Animals01:51 2009 greeen How Do We Know?The Pop UpsGiants of Science01:55 2018 Pop Up City Records I Am a ScientistMates of StateScience Fair02:30 2012 Spare the Rock Records LLC Always HomeDuke OtherwiseKith & Kin03:17 2019 Duke Otherwise Hope MachineThe Okee Dokee BrothersSongs for Singin'02:47 2020 Okee Dokee Music LLC HappinessYanizaSecrets02:59 2016 Yaniza Showing 1 to 10 of 10 entries PreviousNext

iNaturalist allows anyone, anywhere to contribute to a global record of biodiversity by uploading pictures of plants and animals with their smartphone or computer. In this episode, co-host Justin Schell talks with Dr. Carrie Seltzer, the Stakeholder Engagement Strategist for iNaturalist, about how the platform works, the iNaturalist community, and how iNaturalist advances scientific research. Featured in this episode is the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), the oldest outdoor group in the United States. The AMC runs multiple citizen science projects, and in this episode, Georgia Murray, a staff scientist at AMC; Annie Evankow, a Research Assistant with AMC; and Alina Michelewicz, a volunteer with a number of AMC projects speak about their citizen science work with iNaturalist — how they have been able to supplement the core data fields on iNaturalist with some specific to their project, as well as how they have approached citizen science and research with the Northeast Alpine Flower Watch project.  Music for this episode is from MWD, used under a Creative Commons license from the Free Music Archive. Special thanks to Jill Nugent for conducting the interview with the AMC team. A transcript is available here.  For those of you who have accounts on SciStarter, add your iNaturalist username to your SciStarter dashboard, and you’ll get credit for your contributions.   Links: iNaturalist Appalachian Mountain Club Seek  Global Biodiversity Information Facility National Phenology Network Toilet weasel publication  Justin's (Mistaken) Coyote Identification

With thousands of projects listed on SciStarter, a main challenge can be finding the right project, one that really suits your needs and your interests. After meeting at workshop on the Open Science of Learning hosting by the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Kobi Gal, a leading expert in human-centered artificial intelligence, and Darlene Cavalier, the founder of SciStarter, collaborated, with support from NESTA, a UK-based innovation foundation, to create a smart recommendation system to help SciStarter users find the right project. Kobi and Na'ama Dayan, another team member working on this project, sit down with Caroline Nickerson from the SciStarter team to talk about the new system and how YOU can help us test it. A transcript is available here. Music in this episode is by Discount Fireworks, used under a Creative Commons license via the Free Music Archive. 

This week, Lab Out Loud welcomes Darlene Cavalier to the show. In addition to her position as Professor of Practice at Arizona State University's Center for Engagement and Training, Darlene is the founder of SciStarter - an online community to designed to help people find, join and contribute to science through both formal and informal research projects and events. Darlene joins co-hosts Brian Bartel and Dale Basler to help promote Citizen Science Day - a month-long challenge (through May 20, 2017) that seeks to celebrate and engage citizen scientists throughout the world. Listen to the show to learn how you, your students and your family can be citizen scientists by catching clouds with an app, documenting road kill, or fighting Alzheimer's with an online game! Show notes at: http://laboutloud.com/2017/05/episode-167-scistarter/

Citizen Science (start time: 5:32): For those who would love to track birds and other creatures or to test drinking water quality in their community, for instance, but think it would require a degree in science to contribute to important scientific discoveries, our guest today aims to set the record straight. Dr. Caren Cooper is an associate professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. An ornithologist, she studies bird ecology, conservation and management through the use of citizen science. She wrote a recently published book called Citizen Science: How Ordinary People are Changing the Face of Discovery. It highlights many examples of inspiring and important citizen science projects, including a meteorological-forecasting program and some others here in Colorado. Dr. Cooper is also director of research partnerships at SciStarter.com, which connects interested volunteers to a diverse range of research projects that they can work on. Additional citizen science programs can be found at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Audubon Society’s Rockies chapter. Hosts: Susan Moran, Alejandro Soto Producer: Alejandro Soto Engineer: Joel Parker Additional contributions: Beth Bennett Executive Producer: Joel Parker Listen to the show: