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NASA
Four of Our Favorite SOHO-discovered Comets
On June 15, 2020, a citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO — the 4,000th comet discovery in the spacecraft’s 25-year history....
NASA
GLOBE Observer's Basic Mosquito Habitat Mapper: Getting Started
In many parts of the world, mosquitoes are more than just a summertime nuisance. Their ability to carry and spread disease to humans causes millions of deaths every year, according to the World Health Organization....
NASA
GLOBE Observer Clouds: Getting Started
Clouds are a major component of the Earth's system that reflect, absorb, and scatter sunlight and infrared emissions from Earth. This affects how energy passes through the atmosphere. Different types of clouds have...
NASA
GLOBE Observer: Adopt a Pixel
Land Cover Adopt a Pixel is the latest protocol for the GLOBE Observer app and is one more way for citizen scientists to help update land cover maps which are critical to many different processes on Earth and contributes to a...
NASA
GLOBE Observer Land Cover: Getting Started
Nearly every aspect of our lives is fundamentally tied to the land on which we live. The homes that shelter us are resting on the land. Cities offer locations that bring people together; farms feed us; forests help to...
NASA
GLOBE Observer Getting Started: Mosquito Habitat Mapper - Sample Collection
In many parts of the world, mosquitoes are more than just a summertime nuisance. Their ability to carry and spread disease to humans causes millions of deaths every year. (World Health Organization). Using the...
NASA
Join the Search for New Nearby Worlds
A new website funded by NASA lets the public search for new worlds in the outer reaches of our solar system and in neighboring interstellar space. The website, called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, allows everyone to participate in the...
NASA
Introducing GLOBE Observer
GLOBE Observer invites you to make environmental observations that complement NASA satellite observations to help scientists studying Earth and the global environment. Version 1.1 includes GLOBE Clouds, which...
California Academy of Science
Why Protect Pollinators?
Would you rather having biting flies or chocolate? The question may seem absurd, but cocoa trees rely on pollination from biting flies. Viewers come to understand the importance of pollinators to our food supply, flowers, and entire...
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Kids Recruited as Citizen Scientists in Bug Hunt
Teams of citizen scientists help collect various species of ladybugs to contribute data for a nationwide scientific study of the decline in the species. [4:25]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Christmas Bird Count 2010
Time to bundle up and grab your binoculars - we'll check in on this year's Audubon Christmas Bird Count, a great example of citizen science.