Mar 24, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
On the 23 of March 2020, the Italian National Research Council (CNR – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) launched a Citizen Science initiative on light pollution for mapping light intensity in Italy. By exploiting the forced lockdown caused by COVID-19, the CNR...
Feb 24, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
One of the main motivations of many citizen scientists is that they want to learn about a topic and one of the best ways to achieve that is by being involved in a group of people working on this topic. In biological monitoring it is essential to be able to recognize...
Feb 7, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
By Evan Groen – DRIFT Participants in citizen science projects are typically older.[1,2,3] The average age of the volunteers is around 50 years old which makes sense as a lack of time is the most commonly stated barrier to participation.[2,3,4] Younger...
Jan 28, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel OpenLitterMap empowers everyone with the tools to become an Open Citizen Scientist. By joining OpenLitterMap citizens can create a world with less plastic and toxic chemicals that risk to contaminate various plants and animals. By...
Jan 22, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
Traffic counts are essential as a basis for solutions to take action against air pollution. Unfortunately counting is currently expensive, limited in time, and rarely records all forms of transport (cars, heavy vehicles, public transport, cyclists and pedestrians)....
Jan 15, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
By Virginia de Pablo and Esteban González – UPM The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) published its “Strategic Implementation Plan” in 2019 with the idea of giving data science the importance it has. The EOSC is presented as an “open festival of science”,...
