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#CrowdCloudLIVE After each episode's WORLD premiere in April, show host, producer, and people seen on the show participated in post-premiere roundtable discussions. Viewers like you listened in, asked questions, and were able to dive deeper into the power of Citizen Science.
Watch the recorded Facebook Live events now. Discover more about how Citizen Science is revolutionizing the ways we gather, analyze, and utilize the data that fuels scientific research, discovery, and community action.
Andrew Westphal is a senior fellow and research physicist at the Space Sciences Lab at UC Berkeley, and currently works as a collaborator and advisor on the new crowdsourcing research project, EyesOnAlz. Westphal is responsible for the successful citizen science project Stardust@Home, on which EyesOnALZ is modeled. When the Stardust spacecraft came back to Earth in 2006, it brought back the very first samples of extraterrestrial material ever retrieved from beyond the moon. Facing the challenge of searching for stardust particles across over one hundred million fields of view, Stardust@Home enlisted the help of 33,000 volunteers. More than 200 tracks have been found, some of which indicating interstellar origin. Andrew is optimistic that EyesOnALZ, using a similar approach, will be successful in researching Alzheimer’s Disease.
