NYC Cricket Crawl
The annual Cricket Crawl is a call to citizen scientists, artists, naturalists and scientists for an evening sound census of the late summer crickets and katydids singing throughout local areas in New York City. This is a citizen science pilot project in which participants listen for the calls of crickets and katydids and document their observations. Volunteers are asked to venture out between dusk and midnight to random locales throughout the city in order to make their observations. The data from observations is then aggregated and assessed in an annual report.
Project URL: http://www.discoverlife.org/cricket/
Geographic Scope: Local areas in New York City
Project Status: Periodically active - recruiting volunteers
Participation Tasks: Audio or video recording, Data entry, Finding entities, Geolocation, Identification, Learning, Observation,
Start Date: 2009
Project Contact: sdroege@usgs.gov
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Fields of Science: Animals, Biology, Ecology and environment, Nature and outdoors, Pollinators/insects
Intended Outcomes: Programmatic, Research development, Civic and community, Individual learning, Conservation,