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Park Visitors Chronolog Ecosystems To Help Monitor Change
By: Laura Brennan, Biologist with the National Park Service 10 July 2020Each year three million people visit Indiana Dunes State and National Parks. At the same time, park staff are actively managing and restoring hundreds of acres of wetlands, oak savannas, and other fragile ecosystems. The...
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Visiting the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail this summer? Do NASA science on your phone
By: Peder Nelson - Oregon State University, Helen Amos & Eric Brown De Colstoun - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 30 July 2019Are you traveling along a section of the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail this summer? Help scientists and the National Park Service map the landscape along this route using the
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Report to Congress describes the breadth and scope of Federal crowdsourcing and citizen science
By: John McLaughlin (GSA), Jay Benforado (EPA) and Sophia B Liu (USGS) 18 June 2019The federal government has a long history of interest in citizen science, where volunteers and scientists work together to answer scientific questions and expand scientific knowledge. Thomas Jefferson, for example, collected weather observations and planned...
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The Tick Expert on the Go
By: Bieneke Bron, Maria del Pilar Fernandez, Pallavi Kache, University of Wisconsin - Madison & Columbia University 04 June 2019According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of people getting diseases transmitted by ticks, mosquitoes and fleas has tripled in recent years. Milder winters and warmer springs and falls are making...
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Catching up with an Angler and Citizen Scientist, Nick Milkovich
By: Jake Lemon, Eastern Angler Science Coordinator of Trout Unlimited 13 April 2018Citizen Science Day 2018 celebrates the work of the amazing volunteers who power the field. Nick Milkovich is a citizen scientist who recently participated in a Water Quality Snapshot Day event in the Allegheny National...