20210714 【 Citizen Science 】(25)

Citizen Science:
discover our world together

Get better acquainted with your local envirnomnet

Citizen science would like to introduce you to a fascinating new friend:
the world around you!

Delightful natural phenomena fill the local environments in which you live,
and today's technology makes amateur science more fun and accessible than before.

Imagine joining hundreds of other people in an activity organized by a local university's biology department.

Identifying as many species as possible mammals, birds , bugs , plants , fungi, etc.
on a certain local mountain within 24 hours is your collective goal.

Together with others you use your phone cameras and an app to document thousands of species.

This popular kind of citizen science project is called "BioBlitz."

Citizen science, AKA community science or volunteer monitoring , is crowdsourced scientific research.

National Geographic states it as "the practice of public participation and collaboration in scientific research to increase scientific knowledge.

Through citizen science, people share and contribute to data monitoring and collection programs."

If it were not for enthusiastic groups of smartphone-carrying volunteers, scientists wouldn't be able to capture so much data from such a wide area.

It's a win-win situation for both professional scientists, who collect valuable information, and local people who share in an enjoyable learning experience.

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