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class="entry-content riaus__article-body" itemprop="articleBody"> <div class="wpb-content-wrapper"><div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid"><div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-10"><div class="vc_column-inner"><div class="wpb_wrapper"><div class="vc_separator wpb_content_element vc_separator_align_center vc_sep_width_100 vc_sep_pos_align_center vc_separator_no_text vc_sep_color_white" ><span class="vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_l"><span class="vc_sep_line"></span></span><span class="vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_r"><span class="vc_sep_line"></span></span> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <header> <p class="entry-subtitle">In this article we outline various citizen science projects and resources that allow you to get involved with hands on scientific research. Citizen science projects actively involve citizens in scientific endeavour that generates new knowledge or understanding.</p> </header> </div> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <figure id="attachment_18036" class="thumbnail wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1200px"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-18036 size-full" src="https://education.cosmosmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Citizen-Science_Header-Credit-Nitat-Termmee-Getty-Images-1200.jpg?x50614" alt="" width="1200" height="675" srcset="https://education.cosmosmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Citizen-Science_Header-Credit-Nitat-Termmee-Getty-Images-1200.jpg 1200w, https://education.cosmosmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Citizen-Science_Header-Credit-Nitat-Termmee-Getty-Images-1200-300x169.jpg 300w, https://education.cosmosmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Citizen-Science_Header-Credit-Nitat-Termmee-Getty-Images-1200-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://education.cosmosmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Citizen-Science_Header-Credit-Nitat-Termmee-Getty-Images-1200-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><figcaption class="caption wp-caption-text">Credit: Nitat Termmee/Getty Images</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><strong>Citizen science is an increasingly valuable and legitimate scientific tool</strong> where the general public – people without any formal scientific training or education – become actively involved in scientific research.</p> <p>Modern citizen science has been around for over 100 years, though the phrase “citizen science” itself wasn’t coined until the mid-1990s by <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07106-5#:~:text=The%20phrase%20'citizen%20science'%20itself,enacted%20by%20the%20citizens%20themselves%E2%80%9D." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sociologist Alan Irving</a>. With an increase in accessibility of new technology like the internet and smart phones, there’s been a dramatic increase in the number and diversity of citizen science projects in the last few decades.</p> <p>Citizen science was featured in the Cosmos Science Briefing <a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/the-next-big-things-in-science/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">panel</a> as one of the “7 ideas that are changing the world”.</p> <p>It’s truly a gamechanger if it allows scientists to undertake research that wouldn’t have been otherwise possible, perhaps due to a lack of people, or funding. It’s also an opportunity for education and outreach where the participating public can learn about science and the process of scientific research.</p> <p>Citizen science has been used to help classify <a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/social-sciences/look-whos-talking-too-parents-in-wellington-top-baby-talk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">recordings of baby-talk</a>, identify <a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/birds-lockdown-behaviour-cities/">behaviour changes in b</a><a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/birds-lockdown-behaviour-cities/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">i</a><a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/birds-lockdown-behaviour-cities/">rds</a> during COVID-19 lockdowns, and even discover a <a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/citizen-scientists-find-massive-coral-on-great-barrier-reef/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">massive coral on the Great Barrier Reef</a>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="vc_separator wpb_content_element vc_separator_align_center vc_sep_width_100 vc_sep_pos_align_center vc_separator_no_text vc_sep_color_grey" ><span class="vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_l"><span class="vc_sep_line"></span></span><span class="vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_r"><span class="vc_sep_line"></span></span> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <h3>Read more with COSMOS: <a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/the-current-state-of-citizen-science%EF%BF%BC/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>The current state of citizen science</strong></a></h3> </div> </div> <div class="vc_separator wpb_content_element vc_separator_align_center vc_sep_width_100 vc_sep_pos_align_center vc_separator_no_text vc_sep_color_grey" ><span class="vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_l"><span class="vc_sep_line"></span></span><span class="vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_r"><span class="vc_sep_line"></span></span> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <h3>Why not get involved in these citizen science projects?</h3> </div> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><strong>Insect investigators</strong></p> <p>Estimates suggest that more than 70% of Australia’s insect diversity is still largely unknown to science, meaning they don’t have a formal name. <a href="https://insectinvestigators.com.au/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Insect investigators</a> is a collaborative science project working with schools across South Australia, Western Australia and Queensland to collect invertebrate specimens – insects, bugs, spiders, and some marine creatures – and then describe them formally.</p> <p>The team of taxonomists run sessions with students to educate them in the scientific process and how it’s applied to Australian biodiversity. They head out with students into regional Australia to catch insects and then expert taxonomists hit the microscopes and DNA labs to place the species within the tree of life. They then head back to the students who found it to name the species.</p> </div> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div style="position: relative; display: block; max-width: 100%;"> <div style="padding-top: 56.25%;"><iframe style="position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0LpUqhFQMvI" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><strong>Foldit</strong></p> <p>There’s nothing better than playing a <a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/what-games-can-teach-us-during-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">game that actually teaches you something</a>, and with <a href="https://fold.it/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Foldit</a> players can get hands-on experience with the incredibly important molecular biology process of protein folding. Players solve how a protein folds into a 3-dimensional, functional structure based on its amino acid sequence.</p> <p>Predicting how proteins fold is incredibly computationally demanding, so the researchers rely on player intuition and reasoning to discover new folds and protein designs to then test in the lab.</p> </div> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div style="position: relative; display: block; max-width: 100%;"> <div style="padding-top: 56.25%;"><iframe style="position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_otIWBnybqk" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><strong>QuestaGame</strong></p> <p>What’s better than getting out and about in nature while learning something new about the incredible wildlife you encounter? <a href="https://questagame.com/the-game" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">QuestaGame</a> is an outdoor, multiplayer, adventure game where the mission is to take pictures and submit as many sightings of unique species as you can. Even better, the sightings are shared with national and global biodiversity databases.</p> </div> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div style="position: relative; display: block; max-width: 100%;"> <div style="padding-top: 56.25%;"><iframe style="position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xk2eBBXR7N0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><strong>Stall Catchers</strong></p> <p>Citizen scientists are helping speed up research focusing on one aspect of Alzheimer’s disease with the online game <a href="https://stallcatchers.com/main" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stall Catchers</a>. Researchers had previously discovered that in mice with Alzheimers, stalls (clogged blood vessels in the brain) are responsible for this blood flow reduction, and by reducing the number of stalls the lab was able to restore memory and reduce other cognitive symptoms in mice.</p> <p>But to understand exactly how stalls are contributing to Alzheimer’s they need to get through a lot of data, and that’s where Stall Catchers comes in; players look at videos of the brains of mice and try to identify blood vessels as either “flowing” or “stalled.”</p> </div> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div style="position: relative; display: block; max-width: 100%;"> <div style="padding-top: 56.25%;"><iframe style="position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wog7cVTMuNM" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_separator wpb_content_element vc_separator_align_center vc_sep_width_100 vc_sep_pos_align_center vc_separator_no_text vc_sep_color_grey" ><span class="vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_l"><span class="vc_sep_line"></span></span><span class="vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_r"><span class="vc_sep_line"></span></span> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <h3>Or go on the hunt for your next citizen science project yourself</h3> </div> </div> <div class="vc_separator wpb_content_element vc_separator_align_center vc_sep_width_100 vc_sep_pos_align_center vc_separator_no_text vc_sep_color_grey" ><span class="vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_l"><span class="vc_sep_line"></span></span><span class="vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_r"><span class="vc_sep_line"></span></span> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p>The <a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/citizen-science-gets-active-and-organised/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Australian Citizen Science Association</a> (ACSA) encourages participation in citizen science, and has developed an <a href="https://biocollect.ala.org.au/acsa#isCitizenScience%3Dtrue%26max%3D20%26sort%3DnameSort" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Australian citizen science project finder</a> to find Australian projects.</p> <p>Zooniverse is the largest and most popular global platform for finding online citizen science-powered research, and is home to some of the internet’s most successful citizen science projects – like <a href="https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Galaxy Zoo</a>, <a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/chimpanzee-faeces-dna/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chimp & See</a>, and <a href="https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marckuchner/backyard-worlds-planet-9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Backyard Worlds: Planet 9</a>. It also lets you know which projects could really use your help right now, in case you need help narrowing down your choice!</p> <p>Through <a href="https://scistarter.org/finder" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">SciStarter’s project finder</a> you can find, join, and contribute to science through more than 3,000 formal and informal research projects, events, and tools, and even filter by location to find projects near you.</p> <p>You can read about and join projects <a href="https://www.csiro.au/en/education/Get-involved/Citizen-science/Projects" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">run by CSIRO</a> and of course, look back through the stories written on the Cosmos website under our <a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/citizenscience/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Citizen Science tag</a>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><strong><em>This article is republished from</em> <a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #28aae1;">Cosmos</span></a>.</strong> Read the original article <a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/scientific-research-with-citizen-science/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #28aae1;">here</span></a>.</p> </div> </div> </div></div></div><div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-2"><div class="vc_column-inner"><div class="wpb_wrapper"></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="riaus__article-years"> <h3>Years:</h3> <div> F-12 </div> </div> <footer class="single-footer"> <div class="kad-post-navigation clearfix"> <div class="alignleft kad-previous-link"> <a href="https://education.cosmosmagazine.com/renewable-energy-is-childs-play/" rel="prev">Previous</a> </div> <div class="alignright kad-next-link"> <a href="https://education.cosmosmagazine.com/honouring-forgotten-women-scientists-mathematicians-programmers-and-palaeontologists/" rel="next">Next</a> </div> </div>  </footer> </article> <div id="blog_carousel_container" class="carousel_outerrim"> <h3 class="title">Recent Resources</h3> <div class="blog-carouselcase fredcarousel"> <div id="carouselcontainer-blog" class="rowtight fadein-carousel recent-resources-carousel"> <div id="blog_carousel" class="blog_carousel slick-slider kt-slickslider kt-content-carousel loading clearfix" data-slider-fade="false" data-slider-type="content-carousel" data-slider-anim-speed="300" data-slider-scroll="1" data-slider-auto="true" data-slider-speed="9000" data-slider-xxl="3" data-slider-xl="3" data-slider-md="3" data-slider-sm="3" data-slider-xs="2" data-slider-ss="1"> <div class="tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12"> <li class="listing__item"> <article class="listing__item__wrapper" id="post-21830" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting"> <div class="listing__image"> <a href="https://education.cosmosmagazine.com/cosmos-magazine-quantum-explained-challenge/"> <img src="https://education.cosmosmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Quantum-Explained-Challenge-graphic-16x9-V2.jpg?x50614" alt="COSMOS Magazine – Quantum Explained Challenge" class="listing__image__item"> </a> </div> <div class="listing__content"> <div class="listing__content__top"> <div class="listing__terms__wrapper"> <div class="listing__terms"><a href = "https://education.cosmosmagazine.com/resources/idea/" class="listing__term ">Idea</a></div> <div class="dialog-container"> <dialog class="favDialog"> <div class="favDialog__body"> <p>Please login to favourite this article.</p> </div> <div class="favDialog__footer"> <button class="button closeDialog">Close</button> <button class="button loginUrl">Login</button> </div> </dialog> <button class="showDialog"> <i class="icon-bookmark"></i> </button> </div> </div> <h2 class="listing__title"><a href="https://education.cosmosmagazine.com/cosmos-magazine-quantum-explained-challenge/">COSMOS Magazine - 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