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I don't know if U've heard the term 'citizen science', but it refers to many individuals collecting *data*.
Data is critical to good science, & good science is essential to understanding how things work, or the current state of the environs, or how things are changing - are the numbers getting bigger, or smaller? WHICH numbers? What does it mean? Is that good, bad, immaterial?
But without the *data*, we'll never know.
This is where YOU come in.
Citizen science, particularly using the Web or mobile phones, is doing remarkable things around the world. // I've been a part of the Xmas bird-count for years, & that began as a paper project, very laborious to record & summarize, let alone analyze for trends.
Nowadays, it's much easier, & much much BIGGER - thousands of volunteers across a city, a region, or a country, hundreds of thousands around the world, are doing practical, radical, effective science, & changing things for the better.
For more specific info, see
Citizen Science Homepage | The Crowd & The Cloud
U can do anything U want to do, to help - assist research on Alzheimer's via on-screen games, monitor Ur own tapwater or local streams for water quality, track pollutants, help map areas for humanitarian 1st-responders, tag Monarch butterflies, test air-quality, take photos - of pollution violations or an invasive mosquito-species in a park fountain.
Citizen science is a massive collaboration of individuals, which empowers everyone.
What U do matters - & it can be as easy as following a cursor on a screen, or as active as slogging thru a trout stream in 50' F water, trying not to slip on algae-slick stone.
U can do it in Ur living room, on line at the grocer's, in bed before sleep, or in the outdoors - in found moments, or in hours dedicated to it.
What U do, when, how often, where, are all up to U. Please get involved. The world needs U.
- terry
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I don't know if U've heard the term 'citizen science', but it refers to many individuals collecting *data*.
Data is critical to good science, & good science is essential to understanding how things work, or the current state of the environs, or how things are changing - are the numbers getting bigger, or smaller? WHICH numbers? What does it mean? Is that good, bad, immaterial?
But without the *data*, we'll never know.
This is where YOU come in.
Citizen science, particularly using the Web or mobile phones, is doing remarkable things around the world. // I've been a part of the Xmas bird-count for years, & that began as a paper project, very laborious to record & summarize, let alone analyze for trends.
Nowadays, it's much easier, & much much BIGGER - thousands of volunteers across a city, a region, or a country, hundreds of thousands around the world, are doing practical, radical, effective science, & changing things for the better.
For more specific info, see
Citizen Science Homepage | The Crowd & The Cloud
U can do anything U want to do, to help - assist research on Alzheimer's via on-screen games, monitor Ur own tapwater or local streams for water quality, track pollutants, help map areas for humanitarian 1st-responders, tag Monarch butterflies, test air-quality, take photos - of pollution violations or an invasive mosquito-species in a park fountain.
Citizen science is a massive collaboration of individuals, which empowers everyone.
What U do matters - & it can be as easy as following a cursor on a screen, or as active as slogging thru a trout stream in 50' F water, trying not to slip on algae-slick stone.
U can do it in Ur living room, on line at the grocer's, in bed before sleep, or in the outdoors - in found moments, or in hours dedicated to it.
What U do, when, how often, where, are all up to U. Please get involved. The world needs U.
- terry
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