{"id":5547,"date":"2016-12-19T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=5547"},"modified":"2016-12-17T22:06:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T02:06:56","slug":"we-can-all-be-citizen-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/we-can-all-be-citizen-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can All Be &#8216;Citizen Scientists&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hKnGqh\" target=\"_blank\">SC author and naturalist Drew Lanham<\/a> came to Charleston for a series of events that clearly touched everyone who was fortunate enough to hear him speak.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he got a bunch of folks talking about the impact we could have as &#8220;citizen scientists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By collecting and sharing observations and &#8220;data&#8221;, we can all contribute to scientific understanding and progress.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a number of projects for anyone interested in giving citizen science a try.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>CITIZEN SCIENTIST PROJECTS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.audubon.org\/join-christmas-bird-count\" target=\"_blank\">SC Audubon&#8217;s 117th Christmas Birdcount<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.learner.org\/jnorth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journey North<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/celebrateurbanbirds.org\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrate Urban Birds<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/celebrateurbanbirds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CUBs-Kit-2016-Eng-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">free kit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nestwatch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NestWatch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aza.org\/frogwatch-usa-volunteers\" target=\"_blank\">FrogWatch (feb to august)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverlife.org\/moth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mothing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usanpn.org\/natures_notebook\" target=\"_blank\">Nature&#8217;s Notebook <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverlife.org\/ladybug\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lost LadyBug Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverlife.org\/photowalk\/\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoWalk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/budburst.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project BudBurst<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feederwatch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project FeederWatch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/content.yardmap.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">YardMap<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.natureabounds.org\/Watch_the_Wild.html\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the Wild<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darwinsdogs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darwin&#8217;s Dogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.owlbirmingham.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Online Wisdom Lab (OWL) <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vectorecology.org\/outreach\/mosquito-bite-app\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mosquito Byte! (app)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatsunflower.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Great Sunflower Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/backyardbarkbeetles.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Backyard Beetles<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find more great citizen science opportunities at:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects?status=live\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Zooniverse Projects<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you know of other citizen science projects, especially local opportunities, please <a title=\"CONTACT US\" href=\"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">let us know!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, SC author and naturalist Drew Lanham came to Charleston for a series of events that clearly touched everyone who was<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/we-can-all-be-citizen-scientists\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":5549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3,12,36,8,11,10,35,5,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5555,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions\/5555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}