10 WAYS TO BE A CITIZEN
SCIENTIST FROM HOME!
1. PLANET FOUR
This website is for anyone who wants to be a Mars explorer but doesn't want to have to leave home. With Planet Four, you won't need to deal with putting on a space suit since any "citizen scientist" can turn on their laptops and start combing through every single image of the surface of Mars to help NASA figure out its geology and weather patterns!
2. PLANET HUNTERS
Become a planet hunter and help NASA analyze all the images from the Kepler space telescope to find new planets that might possibly have life on it! You never know, you could discover a new planet today!
EyeWire lets citizen scientitsts from around the world use the addictiveness of video games to help map out the structure of all 86 billion neurons in the retina.
3. EYEWIRE
4. PLANKTON PORTAL
Instead of just sitting by complaining about how our oceans are deteriorating you can help scientists monitor one of the most important food sources in the ocean: plankton. This website needs people to help classify all the different plankton and monitor their population.
6. NOTES FROM NATURE
8. WHALE FM
10. SNAPSHOT SERENGETI
Help scientists digitalize the more than 2 billion specimens that are currently sitting in natural history museums all over the world!
Help marine researchers figure out what whales are saying and what they mean by listening to recordings of different whale calls and then categorizing their sounds!
Researchers need your help to classify all the different animals they catch in images from all the different cameras that are planted throughout the Serengeti!
5. ICEWATCH USA
7. CYCLONE CENTER
9. CELL SLIDER
Help scientists by choosing a body of water in your area to observe during the winter. You'll report on the snow levels, precipitation, ice cover, and wildlife at different times. Once you send in your report, scientist will analyze all your data within 10 minutes!
Join forces with people from around the world who are helping scientists analyze and classify over 30 years of tropical cyclone satellite imagery!
Help scientists find the cure for cancer by analyzing real life cancer data in just a few minutes!
These DIY science websites need regular people like us from around the globe to join forces and become "citizen scientists" from home to help solve world problems! There are tons of DIY science projects out there. Search for awesome DIY citizen science projects: www.zooniverse.org or www.scistarter.com!