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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.

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Episode4

Citizens4Earth

Counting birds for more than 100 years generates data on a changing climate and there’s an app for that: eBird. Surfer science using smart tech tracks ocean acidification and coastal temperatures in the Smartfin project, a recent startup. We spend “A Year in the Life of Citizen Science” including a Thanksgiving monarch butterfly count in California. Seasonal change is tracked by Latina and Native American teens in springtime in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and horseshoe crabs are surveyed in summer by retirees along mid-Atlantic coasts. In Uganda, World Bank economists and local partners generate data for sustainable development. The far-ranging potential of “Citizen Science in the Digital Age.”

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Birds fly over Pungo NC during Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count.
Students contribute data via the Nature’s Notebook app in Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge.
Surfers work with Scripps to test Smartfin sensors which can track ocean temperature and acidification.
Citizen science volunteers coordinated by Nature Conservancy New Jersey count horseshoe crabs.
New York teens plot pollinator numbers to help restore local habitat following Superstorm Sandy.
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