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Book Review: The Intersection by Tom Cole
Step back to 1995. You have a paper address book – family, friends, business – but it’s too big. You’ve been so many places and met so many people that you can’t distinguish John Smith the college...
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6 Ways to Study England’s Natural Environment
From searching for invertebrates to measuring wind speed, everyone can gain new knowledge and skills and play their part in protecting the natural environment. This is the philosophy of Open Air...
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What’s Your Lens On Nature?
The Carolina Wren nest in David Gessner’s writing shack. Read about how they left the nest in his blog. When, this spring, writer David Gessner found that a nest of Carolina Wrens had taken up...
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Summer is busy season for butterflies – and citizen scientists!
Did you know that SciStarter has 14 projects that feature butterflies? Photo: USFWS This is a product of the growing citizen science brigade, but also the fact that butterflies offer an accessible and...
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Celebrate Shark Week with Some Citizen Science
You might not realize it, but it’s always out there. Planning. Growing. Waiting for the perfect time to strike. You never quite know when it will happen. Maybe July. Maybe August. But you know it’s...
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BioBlitz: Explore the National Parks with National Geographic
Attention all backyard explorers and rosebush whackers: this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. Your days of leading patient parents on perilous neighborhood expeditions are over. Put down...
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Citizen Scientists Go Back to School
It happens every year, and you’re right: it’s just not fair. After nearly three months of uninterrupted fun, gone are the barbeques, ball games and pool parties that dominated the summer schedule just...
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8 Spooky Citizen Science Projects for Halloween!
Most of us live in fear of what we don’t know. In science, however, the Unknown is exactly what keeps us hooked. Even the most revered physicist of all time (I’m talking about Einstein, of course) had...
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Become a Bat Detective
Courtesy of USGS We couldn’t have asked for a better citizen science project to start off October, a month often associated with Halloween and all things spooky. Introducing Bat Detective, a project...
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Christmas Bird Count takes flight
See that partridge in a pear tree? Make sure you count it for Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count, one of the largest and longest running citizen science projects in existence today. It’s a 112 year...
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On this, National Squirrel Day, we feature Craig Newmark and squirrelly...
This was originally published on Huffington Post, by George Zaidan. SciStarter asked Craig Newmark (of Craigslist fame) why he likes squirrels. He told us that it all started with a simple desire to...
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Citizen science to assess your dog’s personality!
You’re familiar with this scene: a dog and its owner walk side by side down the street, and you can’t help but smirk that the dog is dressed up just like its owner. It’s undeniable–people often view...
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Final Four citizen science projects!
This post originally appeared on the PLOS Blog Network. We’re down to the Final Four in this year’s NCAA tournament, and chances are your bracket isn’t looking too good. Welcome to the club. Worry not!...
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Swimming With Invasives!
Think you’re safe in your pools this summer? You better double check! This invasive species has been taking over the mid-Atlantic region of the east coast. Contributor Nick Fordes gives us the scoop.I...
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More Gills or Eyes? The Purported Increase of Sevengill Shark Populations off...
Emerging technologies have a profound effect on how citizen scientists conduct their work. An underwater creature of ancient lineage helps to tell this modern story of technology’s importance to...
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Shark Week: A Feeding Frenzy for Citizen Scientists
That’s right–it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. It’s Shark Week, and SciStarter has a slew of projects for you to try out. Let’s see if you bite. Whether it’s fascination or fear, the sight...
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Visit the bottom of the ocean…without getting wet!
This project is part of our Back to School 2013 round-up of projects. Read more about them!Calling all citizen scientists! It doesn’t matter where you are. You can still be an ‘honorary’ diver to help...
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Save the Tasmanian Devil!
Tasmania, the island state of Australia, is known for its tall trees, its wild mountains, its challenging caves, but most of all for its Tasmanian Devils. While the Warner Brothers cartoon character...
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Citizen Sort: Who is in that photo?
Pictures, puzzles, and play. Citizen Sort is a collection of interactive games in which players sort and classify photos of unidentified animals. The project is the brain child of researchers at...
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Bats, Bones, Zombees! Five macabre citizen science projects for Halloween.
Drag your bones on over to our favorite, spooky research projects just in time for Halloween.Where is my Spider?Share your photos of spiders. When we understand where spiders are living today, we will...
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