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Health & Medicine
Colony B
Unravel the secrets of microscopic life!
Colony B is a mobile game developed at McGill University that allows you to contribute to research on microbes. Collect microbes and grow your colony in a fast paced puzzle game. Unlock badges to learn about microbes living inside our body.
The results are used to analyze data from the American Gut project based at University of California San Diego. Play Colony B and become a citizen scientist!
GLOBE: El Nino
Join professional and community scientists in collecting and sharing important data and learn more about your local environment in the process. There are two ways to participate: 1) sign up and contribute as an individual; 2) join as a host-site ambassador to facilitate participation through your community-based organization.
Four Protocols to Collect Data for the El Nino campaign.
To support GLOBE in this long-term campaign, we are recruiting, training, and equipping participants for four separate but related protocols representing a range of commitments from a light touch to an in-depth experience ,based on the needs and interests of you and your community.
The four protocols range from atmosphere to pedosphere observations; from very simple to more complex:
The cloud protocol: a quick assessment of the type and density of cloud cover as viewed from the collection site.
American Gut
The Human Microbiome Project and other microbiome projects worldwide have laid an important foundation for understanding the trillions of microbes that inhabits each of our bodies-and how they affect human health. We know that things like diet affect the microbiome, or that obesity is linked to the microbes that live in your gut. Research suggests that microbes may even be associated with autism! However, we need more samples to fully understand how our microbes are linked to health and disease. American Gut gives you the opportunity to participate in the discovery of new scientific knowledge about the microbiome by comparing the microbes in your gut (or in your mouth or on your skin) to those of thousands of participants in the US and elsewhere around the world. American Gut is a project built on open-source, open-access principles. Our data are for the good of scientific understanding and will be shared both with participants and with other scientists.
#100Kbio Challenge
Amino Labs and The BioBuilder Educational Foundation challenge you to become a Virtual Bioengineer!
Genetic engineers produce medicine, food, fuel, household products and now materials. There are genetically engineered consumer products in the hands of hundreds of millions of people each day, and this will continue to increase. We depend heavily on these "bio-products" and it is vital that we learn about the technology. We challenge you to become a Virtual Bioengineer!
Visit #100Kbio campaign page and follow the simple instructions to complete the challenge and learn about bioengineering! Then challenge your friends, teachers, and family to do the same! Together we can all learn about DNA, cells, and how important products are made using biology.
Cochrane Crowd
Join the Cochrane Crowd 48 hour Citation Screening Challenge!
Cochrane Crowd, a new citizen science platform, is a global community of almost 4,000 volunteers who are helping to classify the research needed to support informed decision-making about healthcare treatments.
Cochrane Crowd would like your help to achieve one million classifications by the end of the year. Help Cochrane Crowd get over the line by joining the 48 hour Citation Screening Challenge on 19-21 December.
The job of the Cochrane Crowd community is to review descriptions of research studies to identify and classify randomised controlled trials (RCTs), a type of study that is considered the gold standard for clinical trials. Reports of RCTs are then fed into Cochrane's Central Register of Controlled Trials, helping Cochrane authors and other systematic reviewers around the world quickly find the evidence they need to help answer important questions about treatments.
Cochrane Crowd has now reached 943, 500 research study classifications and would like your help in a final push to reach one million.
By joining the 48 hour Citation Screening Challenge you'll be working with a supportive international community from the comfort of your own home. If Cochrane Crowd is new to you, you'll be provided with some brief (and fun!) online training so you'll feel confident right from the start. Any contribution towards the challenge is welcome, whether it be a few five-minute grabs or a more focussed effort over the 48 hours.
We're also going to make this event a fundraiser, with all proceeds raised going to both Unicef's campaign to help children in Syria this winter, and to the medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières
Want to find out more? Head over to Cochrane Crowd to hear about the challenge and how you can get involved! And don't forget to tell your colleagues, friends and families – the more the merrier!
Surfrider Foundation's Blue Water Task Force South Sound
The Blue Water Task Force (BWTF) is the Surfrider Foundation's citizen science program which provides valuable water quality information to beach communities, raises awareness of local water pollution problems, and works collaboratively with local stakeholders to implement solutions.
Surfrider's network of 30+ volunteer-run BWTF labs measure bacteria levels at ocean and bay beaches and in freshwater sources, and compare them to the national water quality standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency to protect public health in recreational waters.
The South Sound Chapter tests eight recreational beaches and public waterways in Puget Sound near Tacoma, Washington. Surfrider volunteers collect the water samples and deliver them to the Tacoma Public School's Science and Math Institute (SAMi), where a high school science teacher and his students analyze them in the lab and record the results. All BWTF water quality data are posted online and available to the public at Surfrider.org. (http://www.surfrider.org/blue-water-task-force/chapter/37)
The Chapter coordinates with the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department's Swimming Beaches program and the Washington State Department of Ecology's BEACH Program to ensure that their sampling protocols align with the agency programs. During the summer recreation season, the County Health Department monitors high-use beaches. The Chapter's sampling schedule from September to May helps to extend the County's regular beach testing program into the colder months when recreational users such as divers and paddlers are still very active.
The chapter alerts the State and County when the BWTF program detects high bacteria levels at their sampling sites, and the County goes back out, retests, and issues swimming advisories and beach closures if the results still exceed health standards. The program provides a great collaborative opportunity for an educational institution, Surfrider volunteers, and local health agencies to work together to provide better protection for beachgoers and water recreational enthusiasts in Tacoma.
Surfrider Foundation's Blue Water Task Force Eastern Long Island
The Blue Water Task Force (BWTF) is the Surfrider Foundation's citizen science program which provides valuable water quality information to beach communities, raises awareness of local water pollution problems and works collaboratively with local stakeholders to implement solutions.
Cloudy with a Chance of Pain
Cloudy with a Chance of Pain is a national smart phone study that seeks to address the age-old question of whether the weather influences pain symptoms. It is open to people who live in the UK, are aged 17 or over, own a smart phone and have experienced pain for at least the last three months.
Mosquito Byte!
A very simple smart phone app (for Android or iPhone) that allows a user to report a mosquito bite. The user is rewarded with a fact about mosquitoes, and the bite report is displayed in (almost) real time on a map of the world. The more people use it, the more we know about when and where there are biting mosquitoes.
Mission: Starlight (UV protection)
Your mission is to protect astronauts from the effects of harmful UV light. Experiment with different materials to discover which blocks UV light the best. Tell us about your results to receive a mission completion certificates and to unlock a secret video featuring British astronaut Tim Peake.
Invasive Mosquito Project
The Invasive Mosquito Project (IMP) is a public education and national mosquito monitoring program at the USDA that partners local professionals with high school teachers and community educators (summer camps, naturalists, gardeners, scouts, etc.) to teach about mosquito-borne disease and public health, provide teachers with educational materials that meet Next Generation Science Standards, and create community outreach opportunities that benefit mosquito control/public health agencies. The IMP website (www.citizenscience.us) provides connections, resources, and information. Partnered citizen science is different than the typical crowd sourced citizen science because the expertise, experience, and enthusiasm of a professional or expert in the field supports the educator. The yearly mosquito species collection data will be used to generate mosquito species distribution maps for each year and cumulative distributions for each species.
Eterna invites contributors to become RNA scientists. Contributors solve puzzles to design specialized RNA-based medicines and sensors, receive feedback after their designs are built and tested in a lab at Stanford, and work together to build knowledge about how RNA works.
Cyanobacteria Monitoring Collaborative (CMC)
Project designed to document the occurrence and timing of Harmful Algal Blooms, spatial distribution of toxin producing cyanobacteria with genus/species identification, and development of bloom forecasting and HAB vulnerability in water bodies.
RNA World
RNA World is a distributed supercomputer that uses Internet-connected computers to advance RNA research. This system is dedicated to identify, analyze, structurally predict, and design RNA molecules on the basis of established bioinformatics software in a high-performance, high-throughput fashion.
The RNA World project is based at the Rechenkraft research facility located in Germany.
Save the Tasmanian Devil
The Roadkill Project was launched in 2009 to help determine how significant the threat of roadkill mortality is to Tasmanian devil populations, particularly those populations already decimated by Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD). The Roadkill Project aims to continue to monitor the threat of roadkill mortality and the spread of DFTD and to try to reduce Tasmanian devil roadkill. Involving the public helps to greatly extend our limited resources.
Anyone who is using Tasmanian roads can help by reporting any Tasmanian devil roadkill they see.
Independent Generation of Research
IGoR facilitates scientific research by amateur scientists and science enthusiasts. Anyone (not just professional scientists) can propose their own research questions on the IGoR site. Then, other interested people can share ideas, skills, or time to address the question. In addition, a growing number of professional scientists have agreed to help answer users' questions about the users' research projects.
Some people may have science questions that they cannot answer on their own. Other people may have technical skills (e.g. electronics or microscopy, gardening or photography, and many others) that would be useful for addressing those questions. Still others may have the scientific training to design a sound study.
By working together and pooling skills and ideas, people of any experience level could carry out original, independent research. For example, do you want to decipher what scallops see with their bright-blue eyes? Do you wonder how mushrooms take shape? Or are you curious about how the plants in your garden behave? What do you want to discover?
Autoimmune Citizen Science
Our goal is to bring the autoimmune community together in a scientific way, such that it will change the way that autoimmune disease is treated in healthcare today. The massive online community that has formed around chronic illness is ample evidence that something is wrong. Forums and Facebook groups provide immense value in that they connect people with autoimmune disease together and allow them to provide support and share information, but we want to go one step further and organize it all. Right now, everyone is on their own journey, communicating only bits and pieces of it in small posts here and there, which quickly disappear in the noise.
Data aggregation for autoimmune diseases has never been done at this scale and we're excited to provide a resource to facilitate that. Users will record symptoms, treatments, and results using the Autoimmune Citizen Science mobile application. We plan to then aggregate that data and share it with our users so that they can see (anonymously) what is working for other people with similar symptoms.
AirVisual: The Air Pollution Monitoring Project
Unhealthy, polluted air is a ubiquitous, invisible threat that is responsible for 200,000 premature deaths every year in America alone. The NRDC estimates that about 81 million Americans live in areas that fail to meet national air quality standards for particulate pollution (PM2.5).
Particulate matter, abbreviated as PM2.5, is a term used for particles found in the air; including dust, soot, dirt, smoke and liquid droplets that are 2.5 micrometers in size, or less. These particles are so small that they can be absorbed into the bloodstream upon inhalation and cause a variety of adverse health effects.
We tend to assume the air we breathe indoors is safe, yet indoor air quality is frequently worse than outdoors due to high confinement and a variety of indoor sources.
We are calling on interested participants to help determine sources of air pollution both indoors and out. Use the AirVisual Node to discover factors that influence air quality and then download the data from the device to validate your conclusions.
Scientific findings will be posted on our website, airvisual.com, (with credit to you) in order to grow awareness of air pollution sources in the home, office and classroom.
You can also make your air quality monitor a public outdoor station, connected to our monitoring platform (airvisual.com) and crowd-sourced air pollution map (airvisual.com/world) to fill in gaps in government air quality data.
Have an interesting idea for using the device that would contribute to our understanding of air pollution? We want to hear from you!
NYU Baby Sleep Study
This study is looking at sleeping and digestion in babies to characterize normal development, so that parents have better (scientifically-informed) advice about how to manage their baby's sleep and eating. We also hope to discover early signs of developmental disorders that could help other babies in the future. So far, there are over 850 babies enrolled with 1.2 million sleep events, 2.1 million feedings, and 1.3 million diaper changes logged.
Parents, after signing up and consenting to the study on the project website, record their baby's sleeping and eating activity plus other observations through the phone app, Baby Connect. Parents can contribute their baby's data for any length of time, although more data are better; several weeks or two years, it's helpful either way.
The goal is to create an extensive data base to learn about sleep and neurological development. When data come from a very large number of participants, in some cases, scientists can find patterns that would otherwise be undetectable. Every parent's data contribution will be valuable, when combined.
100 For Parkinsons
Can a smartphone unlock new discoveries in Parkinson's?
You can join a global movement to learn more about your health, support people living with Parkinson's and help change healthcare.
You're invited to become a citizen scientist, tracking ten aspects of your health that are important to you for 100 days using the uMotif platform on your smartphone or tablet. Everyone will track their sleep quality, mood, exercise, diet and stress levels. Then it's up to you to choose another 5 aspects of your health that are most important to you.
In return, you can share your experiences and see how everyone else taking part in the study is benefitting on the 100 For Parkinson's website. The data you're donating will contribute to academic research approved by a committee led by the Cure Parkinson's Trust, helping to unlock new discoveries in Parkinson's.
This is a world-first people-centred project of this size and scale in healthcare and open to everyone, whether you have Parkinson's or not.
You can be a part of it!
Most Early Childhood Development (ECD) assessment tools start by filling a questionnaire designed by ECD experts. Call this the "external expert driven" approach: an external expert --- the questionnaire designer --- is assumed to know best what and how to measure ECD.
Baby CROINC (CROwd INteractive Clustering) takes a different, citizen science oriented, approach which is based on these assumptions:
1) Each parent is an expert on the ECD of her/his child(ren)
2) ECD is too complex to be captured by any single questionnaire
3) Algorithms can help parent explain and understand ECD differently
Open Insulin Project
A team of biohackers is developing the first open source protocol to produce insulin simply and economically. Our work may serve as a basis for generic production of this life-saving drug and provide a firmer foundation for continued research into improved versions of insulin.
Some of the articles about us:
Popular Science - www.popsci.com/these-biohackers-are-making-open-source-insulin
Vice - motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/after-92-years-biohackers-want-to-finally-make-cheap-and-generic-insulin
"Stick Out Your Tongue" - Saca La Lengua
'Stick Out Your Tongue' ('Saca la Lengua') is a citizen's science project that aims to study the mouth's microbiome and its possible relationship with our environmental characteristics and lifestyle.
The Online Wisdom Lab (OWL)
OWL is a fun app that is helping researchers understand how thinking and decision making change as we go through our adult lives. By playing the games and completing the quizzes, you will be contributing to an amazing citizen science programme that could revolutionize psychological research.
moo-Q is a scientific iPhone application designed by the Hungry Mind Lab team at Goldsmiths, University of London with the aim of measuring mood and brain power. It allows users to see at what time of day their brain works best, and whether being in a good or a bad mood has an effect on brain power. This data is also securely and confidentially gathered by the researchers at Goldsmiths in order to assess whether there is a correlation between mood and cognitive performance.
Users will complete a set of exercises, lasting no longer than a few minutes, several times over the course of a few days. Doing so unlocks their moo-Q performance chart.
moo-Q is free for users across the world to download. For more information, please visit our website at www.hungrymindlab.com .
Investigating Indoor Air Quality in Northeast Denver
The harmful effects of indoor air contaminants, such as perchloroethylene (PERC), are clear. Knowing how to assess our own risk is less clear. We will assemble and distribute air quality test kits to homes in Northeast Denver in order to collect data on two pollutants: PERC and radon. Our goals are simple, help a local community understand if they are at risk, raise awareness of air quality issues, and test a low-cost method for PERC detection that could allow anyone to screen their home.
Counter Culture Labs
Come help us build a new community lab for the East Bay, focused on DIY biology and citizen science. A place to explore, learn, work on fun projects, tinker with biology and other sciences. Open to biotech professionals, scientists, and citizen scientists of all stripes. Be part of our community of creative thinkers, hackers and mad scientists!
The Microbiome and Oral Health
Help researchers learn more about the normal bacteria in the mouth!
You may Qualify if you:
What is the Time Commitment?
The Dental Arcade Game
Are you fascinated by forensic science? This project is run by a real life forensic anthropologist, and is about teeth. It is designed to gather information about your age, ethnicity and the teeth you have in your mouth, to see if what we think we know about when teeth erupt is accurate.
At the moment, if an unknown body is found, forensic scientists (forensic anthropologists and forensic odontologists) examine the teeth and work out how old the person was when s/he died by noting which teeth have erupted, and comparing this to reference data. This data then gives the scientist an age range, which can help the police narrow down the list of possible people that the body could be. The problem is that this data is out of date, and there is lots of variation between populations.
That's where YOU come in. We can improve this data set by getting as many people as possible to complete our survey. That way, we can build up a mega-database of ages and tooth eruption and ethnicities, and build up a really useful bank of data for scientists to use in the future.
Drug discovery from your soil
Creating a new medicine is a team effort involving scientist and medical professionals from a wide variety of fields. In 2010, researchers with the University of Oklahoma's Natural Products Discovery Group redefined the notion of what "team" meant when they launched their popular Citizen Science Soil Collection Program. Through this program, volunteers from across the United States have helped by donating soil samples from their own backyards, which OU investigators are using to obtain fungi that make special compounds known as natural products. Natural products are the source of many lifesaving drugs that are used today by doctors around the world.
Help scientists build a taxonomy of the world's faces!
Facetopo is a global citizen science project to map diverse faces of the world. Download the Facetopo App (Free) and use your iOS or Android smartphone or tablet device to create a 3D selfie and donate your facial data to the Facetopo database. Our goal is 10K faces. The Facetopo database is private and secure.
Facetopo is for adult faces age 14+. Under age 18 requires parental approval to create a user account.
Reverse The Odds
In Reverse The Odds, you help the Odds – colorful creatures whose world is falling into decline. By completing mini puzzle games and upgrading their land, you can restore the Odds back to their lively selves.
But it's not just the Odds you're helping. We've incorporated the analysis tumour image analysis into the game. So as you play, you're helping to analyse important data for a huge bladder cancer study.
You're analysing in the same way researchers do, but because there are a lot more of you, we can get through data much more quickly, freeing up more of our researchers valuable time and unveiling clues about cancer sooner.
Mark2Cure allows anyone that can read English, regardless of background, to help in the process of biomedical discovery. Scientific literature is growing at a rate of more than 2 new articles every single minute. It is hard for scientists to know what to read and to read everything that is relevant. Mark2Cure works by teaching citizen scientists to precisely identify concepts and concept relationships in biomedical text. This is a task that anyone can learn to do and can perform better than any known computer program. Once these tasks are completed, advanced statistical algorithms take the data provided by the volunteers and use it to provide scientists with new tools for finding the information that they require within the sea of biomedical knowledge.
Experiment is a crowdfunding platform for scientific research. We want to allow anyone with a credit card to be a modern day patron of science.
Play to Cure: Genes in Space
Help researchers cure cancer.
The problem:
We know that faults in our genes can lead to cancer cells forming. This can be linked to the amount of genes in our cells - sometimes we have more and sometimes we have less.
It can take years for scientists to analyze all of their genetic data, but with thousands of citizen scientists playing Genes in Space, the process is greatly accelerated.
How it works:
First, you plot a galactic route. In the context of the game, you're choosing your flight path, but these "space coordinates" are actually a visualization of DNA data, and you're showing our scientists where the genetic variations are which may lead to cancer.
Then you collect Element Alpha, a mist like substance that can be traded for ship upgrades. It actually represents the same DNA data that has just been mapped – which means our scientists have two perspectives on the same sample, from one player.
And we've added an asteroid field. This makes the gameplay more engaging and challenging. You need to dodge or shoot a multitude of asteroids to complete a stage.
Each data sample is analyzed multiple times for accuracy. Don't worry about making mistakes - the more people who use Genes in Space, the more accurate the results will be and the faster data can be translated into new ways to beat cancer.
Transparency Life Sciences
Transparency Life Sciences is an open innovation drug company that crowd sources improvements to clinical trial protocols. Join TLS's network and improve drug development research by contributing your expertise or experience. Researchers, clinicians can help by making recommendations to clinical trial protocols or suggesting alternate uses for pharmaceuticals. Patients and families can help by making recommendations for protocols that fit their needs.
Featured tools:
2) Indication Finder for researchers only, users can help identify potential new applications for stalled pharmaceuticals.
Health Data Exploration Project
Individuals are tracking a variety of health-related data via a growing number of wearable devices and smartphone apps. More and more data relevant to health are also being captured passively as people communicate with one another on social networks, shop, work, or do any number of activities that leave "digital footprints." Self-tracking data can provide better measures of everyday behavior and lifestyle and can fill in gaps in more traditional clinical or public health data collection, giving us a more complete picture of health.
We at the Health Data Exploration project are creating a Network of innovators in PHD to catalyze the use of personal data for the public good. This Network will bring together companies, researchers, and strategic partners to strategize, coordinate, and experiment with using PHD to understand health.
We need the help of citizen scientists to take this project forward. How do you think personal health data can provide insights into health? What would make you more willing or less willing to share your own data? What concerns or suggestions do you have?
The NOVA RNA Lab
Nature's best kept secret is a wonder molecule called RNA. It is central to the origin of life, evolution, and the cellular machinery that keeps us alive.
In this Lab you'll play the role of a molecular engineer by solving RNA folding puzzles. Then take your skills to Eterna, where you can design RNAs that could be at the heart of future life-saving therapies.
This project is part of the NOVA Labs platform
Help scientists analyze brain blood flow movies - are blood vessels flowing or stalled?
One symptom of Alzheimer's that has been known since the discovery of the disease is reduced blood flow to the brain, but until now, nobody knew why. That is why this aspect of the disease, which likely contributes to cognitive problems and accelerates injury to brain cells, has remained untreated.
Personal Genome Project
The Personal Health Genome is a global community interested in creating an open access database for genomic, trait and health data. In addition to genomic data, the project is interested in studying genome and environment interactions as well as other aspects of the human experience.
Visualizing Health
When it comes to our bodies, data abounds. We all have a blood pressure, weight, cholesterol levels, A1c, BMI, and more. We have risks, too. We might have or be at risk for cancer, or heart disease, or have a higher risk of experiencing a side effect of a medication or treatment than someone else.
In theory, this data can help us make better decisions about our health. Should I take this pill? Will it help me more than it hurts me? How can I reduce my risk? And so on.
But for individuals, it's not always easy to understand what the numbers are telling us. And for those communicating the information – doctors, hospitals, researchers, public health professionals — it's not always clear what sort of presentation will make the most sense to the most people.
That problem is the inspiration behind Visualizing Health, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Health Communications Research. This site contains 54 examples of tested visualizations – that is, graphic displays of health information that we've evaluated through research among the general public. Our objective was to create a gallery of beautiful and easy-to-make-sense-of graphs, charts, and images that effectively communicate risk information. Health data that makes sense.
Infinome studies the complex relationship between your genes and lifestyle to discover the balance between nature and nurture. Anyone can participate by linking their wearable activity tracker and/or 23andMe account. The Infinome website links to millions of biomedical research papers to help users understand their genome, and provides visualizations of their exercise data.
Infinome has also launched a mobile app to help users log their diets. The app uses artificial intelligence to identify the food on their plate, and log calories.
Flip the Clinic
The traditional doctor's visit is ripe for reinvention—both because it is such a valuable interaction, and because we know there are ways to make it better.
Our goal is not only to create a specific set of practices that will improve the medical encounter, but also to inspire others to invent new ways to get more out of the clinic visit, too.
Malaria is a prevalent disease in poorer countries, where it infects 216 million people and kills 650,000 each year, mostly African children under 5 years old [WHO]. Plasmodium falciparum is the parasite responsible for malaria and it continues to evolve resistance to available medication.
We urgently need to discover new drugs which target NEW proteins in the parasite. The FightMalaria@Home project is aimed at finding these new targets.
Donate your computer power to aid in antimalarial drug research. Run through the BOINC platform.
Open Research Exchange
The world's first open-participation research platform for creating health outcome measurements.
Patients Like Me
Patients Like Me is an opportunity for patients and medical experts to communication and improve healthcare. Individuals and experts can share and compare experiences such as treatments or symptoms. Individuals track their health, learn more about different treatments, or connect with individuals with similar conditions.
Health eHeart Study
The Health eHeart Study is the first of its kind - an electronic clinical research study that will gather long-term information about participants' health and behaviors with the latest technologies.
The goal of this study is to hone in on more specific predictors of heart disease by taking into account each person's unique profile in relation to our constantly evolving world.
We need people of all ages and from all backgrounds to tease out the reasons behind heart disease. The only criteria is that the participants are 18 years and older. We are looking to enroll up to 1 million participants worldwide.
The Winnower
The Winnower is a scholarly publishing platform that provides traditional scholarly publishing tools (DOI, typesetting, archival, and Altmetrics) to traditional and non-traditional media including blogposts, reddit AMAs, class essays, grants, theses, reviews, responses to RFIs, lay summaries, journal clubs, citizen science projects and other new media so that it counts for the scholarly record and the scholar's career. We've been live for ~2 years and have 1220+ publications from universities and individuals around the world.
PressureNet is a network of crowdsourced weather sensors. We automatically collect atmospheric pressure measurements using barometers in new Android devices. We're sharing this live data with scientists and researchers to improve weather forecasting. Soon we'll provide you with a weather forecast based on everyone's live, shared data!
We're going to make new weather models using the data that PressureNet automatically collects - these models should produce forecasts that are significantly more accurate than any other method! Since the data is collected using smartphones, we can gather way more data about the atmosphere than ever before.
Until we make forecasts, PressureNet shows you the raw data. The pressure data is displayed in graphs so that you can see both your own data as well as other regions' graphed over time. We've just added animations as well, so you can watch storms moving across a region. Furthermore, you can now report what the weather is where you are! Current weather conditions automatically refresh every twenty minutes to keep it accurate.
PressureNet has been featured on BBC World Service, Wired Science, and MIT Technology Review.
Our Radioactive Ocean
It has now been 5 years since the release of radioactive contaminants from Fukushima and we are now seeing the evidence on the west coast of North America. Help scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reveal the ongoing spread of radiation across the Pacific and its evolving impacts on the ocean.
Clarification for fundraising costs: shipping is about 20% of the cost, the other majority is for the cesium extraction steps in the lab, radioactivity detection and data processing, along with managing the web site and database.
There are 3 ways to support us:
1) Help us reach our goal by donating to sample an existing site. Simply click on "HELP FUND A LOCATION" and choose to support one of the many sites that are underway
2) Someone can propose a new sampling site. Click on "PROPOSE A LOCATION" and see what is involved. We are trying to get spread of locations up/down coast. With a donation or fundraising of $100 we'll set up a fundraising webpage, add that page to our website, and send you a sampling kit once your goal has been reached. Fundraising amounts are generally between $550 (WA, OR, CA) and $600 (BC, AK, HI). Differences reflect increased shipping charges to some areas.
3) We also seek funds for general capacity building and public education activities at CMER: http://ourradioactiveocean.org/support ($20 minimum donation)
GoViral is a free and real-time online Cold & Flu surveillance system administered by researchers at New York University. Participants will get a Do-It-Yourself flu saliva collection system that they can keep and use at home if they are feeling sick. All samples will be analyzed at a central laboratory that checks for 20 different viral infections. GoViral participants will get their own laboratory results (not including NY state participants) and, through the aggregate data, be able to see what infections and symptoms are going around near them so they can take appropriate public health measures and understand when something might be abnormal. The data will be used for research purposes only.
OSF SciNet
Problem: Scientific citations are frequently constrained by terms-of-use or within proprietary systems making it difficult to see connections in the literature.
Solution: OSF SciNet uses the open source Citelet extension to crowdsource a free, open, and comprehensive metadata dataset of scientific citations and corresponding references to unlock the citation network.
Impact: The dataset generated through this project will make it easier to see the connections in the scientific literature and to promote open science.
Field Photo Library
A photo taken in the field helps scientists and citizens to document changes in landscape, wildlife habitats, impacts of drought and flood and fire, and so on. This Geo-referenced Field Photo Library is a citizen science and community remote sensing data portal, where people can share, visualize and archive field photos in the world. Users can upload, edit, query and download geo-referenced field photos in the library. All photos are also linked with satellite image series images (MODIS), so that people can see the changes over time.
Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer.
The problems we are trying to solve require so many calculations, we ask people to donate their unused computer power to crunch some of the numbers.
The MyEnvironment mapping tools provides immediate access to a cross-section of environmental data for any geographical location in the U.S. Users of the official site can choose the location and environmental issue to examine.
Kinsey Reporter
Kinsey Reporter is a global mobile survey platform to share, explore, and visualize anonymous data about sex.
Reports are submitted via smartphone, then explored at http://KinseyReporter.org or downloaded for off-line analysis.
The Kinsey Institute is exploring new ways to record and describe people's sexual experiences worldwide. We are also exploring new ways for people to be connected while protecting their privacy. We hope to reach people with all kinds of different ideas, beliefs, and experiences, and who might be willing to report on sexual behaviors, regardless of who is involved and where it is observed. By using Kinsey Reporter, you contribute to research on human sexual behavior. We ask you to act ethically, in the role of a good journalist or "citizen scientist." Submit what is true and accurate to the best of your ability.
Ideally, you would submit a report within 24 hours of the event you are reporting. The report can be about yourself or someone else. It is all anonymous. Kinsey Reporter includes surveys about various sexual activities and other intimate behaviors. These surveys cover sexual behaviors and events, sexual health issues, violence reports, public displays of affection, and other unique behaviors and experience. A 'survey' in this case is a report of information shared by many individuals on a topic of interest; it is not based on a random or representative sample of a community or population.
To ensure that reported data is strictly anonymous, you can only select among the provided tags when answering a question. However, contact us to suggest new surveys, questions, or tags.
Interactive visualizations of the data are available on the KinseyReporter.org website. The anonymous data we collect is also publicly available to the community via an Application Programming Interface (API), documented on the KinseyReporter.org website. We welcome your feedback.
Kinsey Reporter is a joint project of the world-famous Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction (KI) and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS), both at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Dark Sky Meter
The Dark Sky Meter (available for iPhones) allows citizen scientists to contribute to a global map of nighttime light pollution.
The app also charts weather conditions and cloud cover so you can take readings at optimal times. The app is as easy to use as taking a picture, and is a fun way to learn about your night sky.
The Results are live and visible for everyone on a global light pollution map generated by the app users. Visit darkskymeter.com to see the map. Since this project has no funding or grants the app costs $1 to cover the hosting costs (which is a steal compared to commercially available light pollution meters).
The Human Memome Project
We want to be able to find correlations between people's ideas, behaviours and aspirations (all of which we are calling memes) and their health, wellbeing and lifespan.
If we can find ideas, memes, behaviours and aspirations that could potentially increase health, wellbeing and lifespan we use this data to create an academic dataset, educational tools and further citizen science and quantified self practices.
We are not just interested in finding associations with increasing average lifespan, or reaching the current maximum lifespan, but finding ideas and behaviours that may be correlated with increasing maximum lifespan as well as maintaining mutual health and wellbeing.
The dataset will be analysed using inter-disciplinary methods including linguistics, bioinformatics, omics, statistics, machine learning, computational modelling, memetics.
We would like to get at least 1000 participants, and many ideas, behaviours and aspirations per person.
I am a PhD student who has so far funded this project personally to following my passions (longevity science, science outreach and empowering people to be healthy, happy and long lived). I would really appreciate if you could take part and share this project with your friends and family.
What we think and do effects how long we will live and could potentially live - let us work together to find the best thoughts and actions to create a better world!
DIY BioPrinter
Come join our ongoing BioPrinter community project!
Did you know you can print live cells from an inkjet printer? Companies like Organovo are developing ways to 3D print human tissues and organs. But the basic technologies are so accessible that we wanted to play around with them ourselves.
We've built our own functioning bioprinter from a couple of old CD drives, an inkjet cartridge, and an Arduino. We probably won't be printing human organs any time soon, but how about printing a leaf from plant cells? Or add a BlueRay laser to turn it into a miniature laser cutter to print "lab-on-a-chip" microfluidic devices. The possibilities are endless - it all depends where *you* want to take it!
Our community projects are open to anyone, and are driven entirely by whoever wants to show up and participate. This is a great opportunity to come check out BioCurious, and jump into some of the projects going on.
This project has something for everyone, whether it's hardware hacking. programming, Arduinos, microfluidics, synthetic biology, plant biology, cell culturing, tissue engineering - you name it! Everyone has something to learn, or something to teach.
ISeeChange is a socially networked weather Almanac for communities to collectively journal their climate experiences -- their observations, feelings, questions, and decisions --- against near-real time climate information.
This groundbreaking environmental reporting project combines citizen science, participatory public media, and cutting-edge satellite monitoring of environmental conditions.
Incubated in 2012 by producer Julia Kumari Drapkin at Colorado public station KVNF Mountain Grown Community Radio via AIR's Localore project, iSeeChange is poised to expand in 2015. The team will work with media and scientific partners across the country to help audiences document environmental shifts in their backyards and connect to the bigger-picture climate changes transforming all of our lives and livelihoods.
Librería Metagenómica del Ecuador
We are a group of scientists interested in exploring the potential applications of Ecuador's unique biodiversity. As a first step, we are working to assemble and apply gene libraries collected from around the country.
uBiome is the world's first effort to map the human microbiome through citizen science.
What's the microbiome? The microbiome are the bacteria that live on and within us. It sounds kind of funny, but all of us are actually covered in helpful germs. Many conditions – from diabetes to depression, asthma to autism -- have been found to relate to the microbiome.
uBiome brings this cutting edge technology directly to consumers for the first time. The more data we collect, the more we can learn about this important area of research. We've been featured so far in Wired, Venture Beat, the Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, BoingBoing, and more.
AirCasting is an open-source, end-to-end solution for collecting, displaying, and sharing health and environmental data using your smartphone. The platform consists of wearable sensors that detect changes in your environment and physiology, including a palm-sized air quality monitor called the AirBeam, the AirCasting Android app, the AirCasting website, and wearable LED accessories. By documenting and leveraging health and environmental data to inform personal decision-making and public policy, the AirCasting platform empowers citizen scientists and changemakers.
Marblar is unique and fun way to engage in citizen science and exchange ideas across disciplines. Marblar posts research projects in need of creative, real-world applications and they ask YOU to come up with those applications.
Singing up is easy and free and there are new projects added regularly. Projects are posted for three weeks. Through online collaboration, the final solutions are posted for users to vote on and further discuss. Top solutions are even awarded cash prizes!
The National Map Corps
The National Map Corps enlists volunteers to collect and edit data about human made structures in an effort to provide accurate and authoritative map data for the USGS National Map and US Topo Maps. Using aerial imagery and base layers from The National Map, volunteers are editing 10 different structure types including schools, hospitals, post offices, police stations, and other important public buildings in all 50 States as well as Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
AgeGuess is a simple on-line citizen science project and game where people can guess your age based on the face photos you link/upload. You will also be guessing other people's age and comparing your results with others. By participating in AgeGuess you will create a first of its kind research data set for the study of human aging.
AgeGuess investigates the differences between perceived age (how old you look to other people) and chronological age (how old you actually are) and their potential power as an aging biomarker. Some of the specific topic we would like to address include:
- Perceived age as predictor (biomarker) for age at death. Are people who look older than they are more likely to die early?
- Is 60 the new 50? We know that nowadays the average 60 year old is capable of doing things that fewer people of the same age where able to do 50 years ago. Is this difference also reflected in how old they look?
Please visit the intro page of our website for more information about these and other topics, such as: are there times when one ages faster, is perceived age heritable, and at what age are you best at guessing. Don't hesitate to contact us if you have other ideas that you would like to help us explore.
The chloroplasts inside plant cells appear to "clump" together during bacterial infection; this can be devastating for plants and seriously compromise crop yields. We need your help to classify plant cell images by their "clumpiness" in order to further this research.
Helping us to classify the images will give insights into the progression of bacterial infection in plant cells.
World Community Grid
World Community Grid, an IBM philanthropic initiative, was created in 2004 to support humanitarian research on health, poverty, and sustainability. Through World Community Grid, hundreds of thousands of volunteers from around the globe have donated unused computing power from their computers and Android devices to help scientists make discover important advances to fighting cancer, AIDS and malaria; and developed novel solutions to environmental challenges, including new materials for affordable solar energy and more efficient water filtration.
Citizens in Space
Citizens in Space, a project of the United States Rocket Academy, plans to fly citizen-science experiments on fully reusable suborbital spacecraft that are now being developed by US companies.
Citizens in Space has acquired an initial contract for 10 flights with XCOR Aerospace, the Mojave, California-based company that is developing the Lynx spacecraft. It expects to acquire additional flights from XCOR and other companies in the future.
Citizens in Space is currently training three astronaut candidates to fly as operators. It will select and train seven additional astronaut candidates over the next 12 to 24 months. Citizens in Space is also inviting citizen scientists to build 100 experiments to fly on those flights, which are expected to begin in late 2013 or early 2014.
In addition to the general call for experiments, Citizens in Space will offer a cash prize for certain experiments deemed to be of special importance.
THE BROAD PICTURE: The aim of MammalMAP is to update the distribution records of all African mammal species. Through collaborations with professional scientists, conservation organisations, wildlife authorities and citizen scientists across Africa, we consolidate all reliable and identifiable evidence (camera trap records, photographs) of current mammal locations into an open-access digital database. The database software automatically generates online distribution maps of all recorded species which are instantly visible and searchable. The information consolidated within MammalMAP will not only yield crucial information for species conservation policies and landscape conservation policies, but provides an excellent platform for educating the public about African mammals and their conservation challenges.
WHY MAMMALMAP IS NECESSARY: In Africa, our knowledge of mammal distribution patterns is based largely on historical records. However, the last three centuries have seen extensive human-modification of African landscapes with the associated conversion, compression and fragmentation of natural land. With further land development presenting a likely reality for the future, the effectiveness of mammal conservation efforts depends on ecological records being updated so that they accurately reflect mammal distribution patterns in the 21st Century. With MammalMAP we plan to conduct these ecological updates over the coming years, by mapping the current distribution of mammal species (including marine mammals and small mammals) across Africa.
HOW MAMMALMAP CONTRIBUTES TO CONSERVATION: The conservation benefits of this research are multiple. First, the comparison of these updated distribution records with both historical and future records will enable the detection of species' distribution changes in response to human-related and climate-related habitat changes. These change detections will assist the guidance of continent-wide conservation policies and decision making processes. Second, the research will promote and facilitate interdisciplinary and international collaboration amongst scientists and conservation practitioners, with potential benefits to the advancement of conservation science. Finally, both the project input stage (data collection) and output stage (data dissemination) will offer interactive, dynamic and widely applicable education tools suitable for both formal and informal education sectors.
THE WHERE AND THE HOW OF MAMMALMAP: The area of interest for MammalMAP is the whole of Africa. To achieve this we collaborate with scientists, conservation organisations, wildlife authorities and citizen scientists across the continent. Our methods involve consolidating evidence of mammal occurrence in a given location (camera trap records, photographs and other reliable records) into a digital database hosted by the Animal Demography Unit (ADU) at the University of Cape Town. In time, we will use the records in the database to generate distribution maps for all recorded species, in the same way that the ADU has done for birds, reptiles, frogs and butterflies.
Genetics of Taste Lab
The Genetics of Taste Lab is a unique venue for both citizen science AND crowdsourcing health data
This research is led by Nicole Garneau, PhD (firstname.lastname@example.com) and is made possible by the Science Education Partnership Award program at the National Institutes of Health.
Based in the Seung Computational Neuroscience Lab at Princeton University, Eyewire investigators are solving the mysteries of the brain with the help of the public. Over 225,000 people around the world have played what has been called a "3D neuroscience coloring book" — a puzzle game anyone can play without having any knowledge or experience in the field of neuroscience.
Eyewire researchers aim to eventually map the human brain, but for now they are starting with the retina. Players map the connections between retinal neurons, helping researchers understand how neurons process information. Players have already helped researchers understand how a mammal can detect motion, which has remained a mystery — until now. Eyewire researchers hope their work can lead to advances in blindness therapies, the development of retinal prosthestics, and other benefits.
The Flusurvey is an online system for measuring influenza trends in the UK.
In contrast to traditional surveillance methods, the Flusurvey collects data directly from the general public, rather than via hospitals or GPs. This is particularly important because many people with flu don't visit a doctor so don't feature in traditional flu surveillance.
Each week, participants report any flu-like symptoms they have experienced since their last visit. If you have no symptoms, this only takes a few seconds. We provide participants with regular updates on the epidemic, all the latest news and advice about flu.
This year, for the first time, we are coordinating with similar surveys in 9 other European countries, letting us monitor flu as it spreads across the continent. You can find out more on the "Join in" tab.
Science Hack Day
Science Hack Day is a 48-hour-all-night event that brings together designers, developers, scientists and other geeks in the same physical space for a brief but intense period of collaboration, hacking, and building 'cool stuff'. By collaborating on focused tasks during this short period, small groups of hackers are capable of producing remarkable results. Some Hack Days have a specific focus. There have already been very successful Music Hack Days and Government Hack Days. It's time for a Hack Day focused on science!
OPAL Biodiversity Survey
The OPAL Biodiversity Survey needs citizen scientists in England to help uncover the diverse range of wildlife in hedges. By contributing, you'll help researchers learn more about the importance of hedges and how we can improve them.
Hedges support many animals by providing them with food and shelter. Berries and seeds are food for birds, while holes beneath the hedge are often home to small mammals. You'll also discover caterpillars, shieldbugs and many other invertebrates living among the leaves.
By sharing your observations with the project, reseachers can instantly rate the condition of your hedge and offer suggestions on how to improve it.
This is one of five OPAL surveys across England to learn more about the state of the environment. Anyone can get involved. The studies are open to all ages and abilities, and your contribution will be important in helping scientists build up a picture of England's natural environment.
The Wildlife Health Event Reporter
Wildlife Health Event Reporter (WHER) is publicly available to anyone to use to report their sightings of sick or dead wildlife.
Individual reports viewed together can lead to the detection and containment of wildlife disease outbreaks that may pose a health risk to people, domestic animals and other wildlife. WHER hopes to harness the power of the many eyes of the public to better detect wildlife disease phenomenon.
Additionally, WHER was developed by the Wildlife Data Integration Network (WDIN), a program of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Master Watershed Steward
The Master Watershed Steward program trains citizens across the state of Arizona to serve as volunteers in the protection, restoration, monitoring, and conservation of their water and watersheds.
We all live in a watershed, also known as a drainage basin or catchment. Each watershed is defined by an area of land that drains water downhill into a common water body. The health of watersheds is especially impacted as our growing population, and thus our demand for natural resources, increases. Learning to look past political boundaries and view land as divided by natural boundaries helps us better manage resources as a complete, more sustainable system.
As a Master Watershed Steward you can help to improve the health of your watershed. The project's informative, research-based training will give you the knowledge to make better, more informed decisions related to your own land, community and watershed. Master Watershed Stewards are highly trained volunteers working closely with the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. Stewards may come from a variety of backgrounds, but all have a passion for our environment! To become certified, Master Watershed Stewards participate in over 40 hours of course and field work to learn the basics of watershed science.
You work with community organizations including watershed partnerships and various state agencies to implement projects throughout Arizona to monitor, maintain and restore the health of our watersheds. Ongoing volunteer projects include: photopoint monitoring in the Tonto National Forest and Saguaro National Park, riparian assessments along urban and preserved corridors, outreach at Arizona Project WET Water Festivals, free private well testing and collaboration with NEMO to develop Watershed Based Plans.
The Master Watershed Steward Program is a partnership of the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. Funding provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Water Act and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality's Water Quality Division.
EteRNA is the first-ever global laboratory where scientists, educators, students, online gamers, and any human being with a strong interest in unlocking the mystery of life will collectively help solve world's biggest scientific problems.
RNA, or ribonucleic acid, is a substance that our cells use to translate and express genetic information from our DNA. We now know that folding and shape-shifting allows RNA and its partners to control the cell in a predictable fashion. However, the full biological and medical implications of these discoveries are still being worked out.
By playing EteRNA, you will help extend and curate the first large scale library of synthetic RNA designs. You play by designing RNAs, tiny molecules at the heart of every cell. If you win the weekly competition your RNA is synthesized and scored by how well it folds. Your efforts will help us understand, dissect, and control the functional properties of real and designed RNAs from bacteria, viruses, and our own cells. Join the global laboratory!
North Carolina Sea Turtle Project
The North Carolina Sea Turtle Project trains volunteers to monitor sea turtle activity along the entire coast of North Carolina.
There are a number of ways that your citizen science efforts can help protect sea turtles in North Carolina. Volunteers are needed to:
- walk small sections of beach each morning from May to August to look for turtle tracks and nests
All the data collected by the project are organized and disseminated to the state and federal agencies that use the information to make management decisions.
The North Carolina Sea Turtle Project, run by the state Wildlife Resources Commission's Division of Wildlife Management, is committed to monitoring North Carolina's sea turtle population. The project would not be possible without the help of hundreds of volunteers!
CitSci.org is an online platform that supports citizen science projects globally. We provide comprehensive services to help you manage members having various roles, create custom data sheets for data collection, visualize trends, relationships, and comparisons, and share data. CitSci.org allows anyone, anywhere to create their own projects and datasheets, manage members, define measurements, create analyses, and even create custom feedback forms. Contact us for more specific and advanced platform creation as well!
Seabird Ecological Assessment Network (SEANET)
Seabird Ecological Assessment Network (SEANET) volunteers conduct beached bird surveys along the east coast of the United States in order to identify and record information about bird mortality. Volunteers examine the spatial pattern of bird carcass deposition and how it varies across time.
The project brings together interdisciplinary researchers and citizen scientists in a long-term collaborative effort to identify and mitigate threats to marine birds.
These surveys provide baseline information about bird mortality and help to detect mass mortality events such as oil spills, algal toxins, and disease outbreaks. Marine birds can serve as indicators of ecosystem and human health; monitoring the threats they face and their mortality patterns can teach us about the health of the marine environment.
This project relies heavily on a working partnership between concerned citizens with an incomparable understanding of local ecosystems and natural phenomena, and scientists with the training and knowledge to synthesize and verify the data generated by local residents. Through this synergistic relationship, scientists exponentially increase the amount and range of data they can access, and residents come to see the larger patterns and trends of which their local ecosystem is a part.
Sound Around You Project
I am building a sound map of the world as part of a study into how sounds in our everyday environment make us feel. We need your help!
We're asking people across the world to use our new iOS app on their iPhones or iPads (or any recorder) to record short clips from different sound environments, or "soundscapes"--anything from the inside of a family car to a busy shopping centre. Then we ask volunteers to comment on their soundscapes and upload them to our virtual soundscape map.
Recordings and responses will be analyzed by acoustic scientists, and significant findings will be reported on this website.
Sound Around You aims to raise awareness of how our soundscape influences us, and could have far reaching implications for professions and social groups ranging from urban planners to house buyers.
Donate your DNA to science! If you have used genetic testing services such as 23andMe or Navigenics, you can offer your genetic data to DIYgenomics for a variety of medical studies.
DIYgenomics is now recruiting participants for its first study, which will examine the effect of a common mutation on vitamin B metabolism.
In a gene called the MTHFR gene, two small mutations prevent vitamin B9 (or folic acid) from being metabolized into its active form (folate). People who lack this form of vitamin B may develop nutritional deficiencies and symptoms associated with diabetes complications, including damage to blood vessels and nerves. Up to 60% of people may have some form of MTHFR mutation.
Beach Environmental Assessment, Communication, Health (BEACH) volunteers monitor high-risk Washington state beaches for bacteria. Beaches are considered high-risk when they have a lot of recreational users and are located near potential bacteria sources.
Monitoring can indicate pollution from sewage treatment plant problems, boating waste, malfunctioning septic systems, animal waste, or other sources of fecal pollution. BEACH volunteers monitor for an indicator bacteria called "enterococci." The presence of this bacteria at elevated levels means there is a potential for disease-causing bacteria and viruses to also be present.
BEACH is intended to reduce the risk of disease for people who play in saltwater. The program strives to educate the public about the risks associated with polluted water and what each of us can do to reduce that risk.
State of the Oyster
State of the Oyster Study volunteers help monitor bacterial contamination levels in edible shellfish collected from privately owned Washington state beaches in Hood Canal and throughout Puget Sound
Volunteers collect oyster and clam samples from their beaches at specific times during summer months. Washington Sea Grant arranges for laboratory testing of these samples, which are analyzed for the presence of harmful bacteria or for bacterial indicators of fecal contamination. (Volunteers must cover the lab fees.) Washington Sea Grant then helps participants interpret their test results and, if needed, works closely with them to identify and remedy the sources of observed contamination.
Through the years, State of the Oyster has has helped waterfront residents on more than 300 Washington state beaches learn what makes for safer oysters and clams and how to minimize fecal contamination in their waters.
Globe at Night
Six out of 10 people in the US have never seen our Milky Way Galaxy arch across their night sky from where they live. And the problem of light pollution is quickly getting worse. Within a couple of generations in the U.S., only the national parks will have dark enough skies to see the Milky Way.
Too much outdoor lighting not only affects being able to see the stars, but also wastes energy and money, about 2 to 10 billion dollars a year. And it has been shown to cause sleep disorders in people and to disrupt the habits of animals like newly hatched sea turtles that try to find their way back into the ocean but are disoriented by streetlights.
Light pollution may be a global problem, but the solutions are local. To help people "see the light", an international star-hunting program for students, teachers, and the general public was created called GLOBE at Night. GLOBE at Night is now in its 6th year and is hosted by the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
For 2016 we are collecting your observations during all 12 months of the year! See the dates below and plan to get involved.
January 1-10
March 30- April 8
June 27-July 6
October 21-31
Through this program, children and adults are encouraged to reconnect with the night sky and learn about light pollution and in doing so, become citizen scientists inspired to protect this natural resource. Teachers like the GLOBE at Night program, because it lends itself to cross-curricular learning: astronomy, geography, history, literature, and writing. The possibilities are great.
The Genographic Project
The Genographic Project is a ten-year old anthropological study that uses DNA voluntarily contributed by hundreds of thousands of people to answer the oldest questions we have about ourselves: Who are we and where did we come from? In doing so, the project has created the world's largest survey of DNA samples to map how humankind populated the planet. Today, this database serve as an invaluable scientific resource for the research community and may ultimately underscore how closely related we are to one another as part of the extended human family. The Genographic Project uses sophisticated computer analysis of DNA voluntarily contributed by people—including indigenous and traditional populations and the general public—to reveal our migratory history and to better understand the connections and differences that make up humankind. Members of the general public can being to take part in the project by purchasing a Genographic Project Public Participation Kit and submitting their own cheek-swab sample.
In 2015 alone we launched four projects across the world (Palau, Aleutian Islands, Chile, and the Dominican Republic), and published six new papers, including populations studies on the Lesser Antilles, the European Roma, and Australian Aboriginal groups. This past year we also launched our new participation kit called Geno 2.0 Next Generation, and we opened up the Genographic Project database to researchers
Cure Together
CureTogether is a worldwide health research project that brings patients and researchers together to find cures for some of the most painful, prevalent, and chronic conditions. Users anonymously track their own health care data, including medication schedules, symptoms, and treatment plans, and provide it other participants around the world.
By making aggregate health data available for analysis, CureTogether provides a conduit for citizens to work together to better understand their bodies, make more informed treatment decisions, and influence scientific research.


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General Meetings
Usually on the third Monday of each month. Next meetings:
Monday, December 15, 2014 at St. Petronille Parish, Glen Ellyn
Monday. January 19, 2105 at St. Petronille Parish, Glen Ellyn
Officers/Trustees Meetings
Usually on the first Saturday of each month. Next meetings:
Saturday, Dec ember 6, 2014 at St. Procopius Abbey, Lisle (following Mass at 7:00 am)
Minutes: Officers/Trustees Meetings
Serra Special Officers Meeting August 13, 2014 Minutes
Officers-Trustees September 6, 2014 Meeting Minutes
Agendas: Officers/Trustees Meetings
April 5, 2014 Officer's Agenda
July 12, 2014 Officer's Agenda

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Once in a while I'll do a mystery shopping gig where I review certain stores. Usually I pick ones that I can benefit from, like free oil changes for my car, but when I saw the opportunity to shop for shoes AND get paid for it, I immediately signed up. Now I can't divulge the store that I shopped at, as then it wouldn't be a mystery, but I can show off the shoes that I bought. Obviously it wasn't a shoe store, just a store with a shoe department. And my budget wasn't that big, thus I was a … [Read more...]
Mystery Shopping Score: Under Armour Slides
Wayne's Shoe Collection: Part 2 (Slides)
This is a second post in a series that showcases the formerly shoe-obsessed Wayne's shoe collection. Commentary by Wayne himself: All these bought at Neiman Marcus in Atlanta back in 2000 (when I was last getting paid on the 1st and the 15th) and rarely worn since. A pair of D&G denim patchwork slides: One pair of D&G brown patchwork leather slides: And a Bonus: Back in 2000 (when I really had spending money), I bought a pair of Hermes wooden slides for $350; I thought I'd … [Read more...]
Kim's Shoe Review: Lindsay Phillips Jordi Flip Flops Snaps Shoes
Even though I claim to not be a flip-flop fan, I find myself wearing the toe separators more and more often. And when I had the chance to test out the cool looking Lindsay Phillips Snap Shoes in my favorite color (pink) with bling, I wasn't going to decline the offer! Lindsay Phillips Jordi Flops only come in whole shoe sizes, so since I'm a 7 1/2, I tested out both a size 7 (in the pink) and a size 8 (in the yellow). I felt the size 7 fit better. In fact, the size 8 felt the exact same … [Read more...]
Shoe Review: Oakley Treaty Slides
Oakley is my favorite brand of sunglasses, probably because my great-grandfather's name was Oakley (I'm now wishing I would have named my son Oakley, but anyhoo...). Did you know that Oakley also makes footwear, too? Mind you, they are just flip-flops and not designer sandals or pumps, but it was news to me! Pictured above is the Oakley Treaty Slide for women in the color Chocolate, available from Shoe Buy for $35 with free shipping. Endless.com also carries the same style (and same price), … [Read more...]
Slide into some Nike slides
I was shopping at ShopKo last week, and just couldn't resist these Nike Slides that were on sale for $14.99. They only come in full sizes, and since I'm a size 7 1/2, I first opted for the size 8, but that was too big/loose. The size 7 fits perfectly. I've been wanting a new pair of athletic slides to replace my Adidas slides that I ruined while painting. Now today I see these exact same Nike Benassi Women's Slides are on sale for only $9.99 from Sports Authority! Regularly $18.99. … [Read more...]


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Introducing Shiatsu
Zen shiatsu is a dynamic bodywork therapy with a theoretical basis in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Shiatsu is remedial, preventative, nurturing, stress relieving and replenishing. Amongst other things, shiatsu is beneficial during pregnancy as well as postnatally and is commonly used to manage stress and anxiety. Prudence Irwin is our resident shiatsu therapist at our West End centre, Brisbane.
Read more about Shiatsu with Moxa Natural Therapies.


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You may want to check out PyroWhatsNew. After installing, see PyroSetUp and PyroForBeginners for site-specific changes and information.
Pyro Installation
This page documents the procedure to install Pyro. Pyro has been tested under RedHat Linux versions 7.x, 8.0, and 9. Pyro should work under any system that supports Python. To begin, you will need Python and a good compiler (gcc). On top of that, follow the instructions below, and please update this page if you have useful hints or questions. Thanks, and good luck!
To install and use Pyro, you will need all of the following:
SWIG, 1.3.17 or greater SWIG - higher versions needed for Aria; any version for other stuff, including self-organizing map and vision processing
Python 2.2, or greater Python.org
Python Numeric module Numpy - needed for image processing and neural networks. Use Numeric version 22 for Pyro 3.3.0 or less. You can use the latest and greatest Numeric (version 23) with Pyro 3.3.1 and greater.
Python Image Library PIL - for images and other displays. See notes below for version 1.1.4.
Tkinter, Tk for Python (from your Red Hat RPMS. Red Hat 9 needed tkinter-*.rpm itcl-*.rpm, and tix-*.rpm) - for graphical interface. Not needed if you will run without GUI
Pyro Pyro - you need this!
Optional hardware and software include:
Player/Stage/Gazebo - simulators and API (see PlayerStageInstallation) Highly recommended!
Robocup Soccer Simulator - multi-robot simulator (see RobocupSoccerInstallation). Beta version, but works pretty well. Needs work on simulated camera (colors and sizes of objects).
Camera and Video 4 Linux (l4v) framegrabber - hardware for real-time image processing
Khepera robot, with or without camera - small, nice robot (from K-Team)
Pioneer2 robot (from ActivMedia)
Aria, at least version 2.2 - for real Pioneer robots (open source from ActivMedia)
SRIsim - Pioneer simulator, with real-world noisy sensors and odometry (from Kurt Konolige at SRI)
Python module PyOpenGL PyOpenGL - not currently working
Soon, we hope to have packages for Debian (.deb) and Redhat (.rpm). However, until we do, you'll want to follow the instructions to make and install each of the different packages manually. But, we have begun to explore Debian's automatted installation tools. Jim Marshall has started a detail set of instructions for Debian: PyroInstallationDebian. Other users will probably want to follow the following install notes.
Step 0: Install Swig 1.3.17 or better
If you get an error about not finding SWIG or if your version is too low, you will need to install it. How can you tell?
% swig -version SWIG Version 1.3.17u-20030407-1334 Copyright (c) 1995-1998 University of Utah and the Regents of the University of California Copyright (c) 1998-2002 University of Chicago Compiled with CC
If your version is less than 1.3.17, then you need to upgrade.
SWIG version 1.1 will not work! You must upgrade.
Step 1: Install Python 2.2 or better
If you already have Python 2.2 installed, go to step #2. How can you tell?
% python Python 2.2.1 (#1, Oct 19 2001, 11:57:05) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>
If the version number is less than 2.2, you need a more recent version. Press Control+d to exit. Sometimes python2.1 or python2.2 may be installed in addition to python1.5. Try typing python2.2 or python2.3 at the shell prompt. If the system comes back with something like command not found for both python2.2 and python2.3, then you will need to install a 2.x version of Python. Pyro has been tested with 2.2-2.3.
Download a version of Python 2 from Python.org. Follow the installation procedure. Usually, that looks something like:
su -
tar xfz python-2.2.1.tgz
cd python-2.2.1
make install
It is a good idea after this step to exit from the shell that you are currently running (exit or Control+d) and start a new one. For example, your LD_LIBRARY_PATH may have changed, and you need to refresh it.
Step 2: Install Numeric.py
If you already have Numeric.py installed, go to step #3. How can you tell?
$ python Python 2.1.1 (#1, Oct 19 2001, 11:57:05) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import Numeric >>>
If this gives an error, then you need to install Numeric.py. You can find Numeric at http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/pyrobot/tars/ . Installing it looks something like:
su -
tar xfz Numeric-22.0.tar.gz
cd Numeric-22.0
python setup.py build
python setup.py install
Note: You should install Numeric version 22, which includes the RandomArray module required by Con-x in Pyro version 3.3.0 and less. You can use Numeric version 23 with Pyro 3.3.1 and greater. Note: for Fedora Core 2, versions more recent than 23.1 will require updating Atlas to get lcblas.
Step 3: Install PIL
If you already have the Python Image Library installed, go to step #4. How can you tell?
$ python Python 2.1.1 (#1, Oct 19 2001, 11:57:05) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import PIL >>>
If this gives an error, then you need to install PIL. You can find PIL at http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm. Installing it looks something like:
su -
tar xfz Imaging-1.1.4.tar.gz
cd Imaging-1.1.4/libImaging/
cd ..
python2.1 setup.py build
python2.1 setup.py install
To get 1.1.4 working under Fedora Core 2:
Taking the hint from /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h, in _imagingft.c of the current PIL distribution replace #include <freetype/freetype.h> with #include <ft2build.h> #include FT_FREETYPE_H
NOTE: For Fedora Core 2, a PIL rpm file can be obtained from http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/PIL/.
Step # 4: Install Tkinter
The latest versions of Python may not have included Tkinter. If you get an error in Python with import Tkinter then you may need to install the tkinter-XX.rpm, itcl-XX.rpm and tix-XX.rpm files as well.
Note: For Fedora Core 2 use "yum install tkinter".
Step #5: Install Pyro
Once the above have been installed, you are ready to setup the environment and make the Pyro C-based modules. You can find the latest Pyro installation files at: http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/pyrobot/tars/ and select the highest numbered file.
Next, put the Pyro tar file where you will install the system:
% su - % mv pyro-X.X.tgz /usr/local/ % cd /usr/local
Untar the system, and change to that directory:
% tar xfz pyro-X.X.tgz % cd pyro
Now you are ready to build Pyro.
NOTE: you must build Pyro in the location that it will be installed. If you move it, you will need to remake it (make clean; make).
Now, simply run 'make' in the root of the pyro subdirectory:
% make
The first step in the process is to define some variables. Answer the questions as they are posed. The answers will be stored in the file Makefile.cfg. You can run the config options again by running "python configure.py". This will run automatically the first time when you run make. For example:
$ make --------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the configure.py script for installing Pyro, Python Robotics. Pressing ENTER by itself will accept the default (shown in brackets). --------------------------------------------------------------------- What version of Python do you want to build Pyro for? (Leave empty if your Python binary is just "python") If you need to type 'python2.2' to run Python, then enter "2.2". ----------------------- 1. Python version number? []: 2.2 ----------------------- 2. Where are Python's include files? [/usr/local/include/python2.2]: ----------------------- 3. Where is Python's binary? [/usr/local/bin/python2.2]: ----------------------- 4. Where is Saphira? (Type 'none' if you don't have it) [/usr/local/saphira/ver62]: ----------------------- 5. Where is the X11 include directory? [/usr/X11]: Configuration is complete! You just created Makefile.cfg. You can run this again, or edit Makefile.cfg by hand if you need to. Now you are ready to run 'make'
Although you don't need to right now, you can also run "make clean", and "mkdir tars; make tar".
Step #6: Testing the Installation
Now let's run the program. First, we need to set some environment variables. The following examples are given in the form assuming a bash-style console. If you use tcsh or another shell, you may have to use the "setenv VAR=value" format. Put some or all of the following (depending on what you have installed) in your $HOME/.bashrc file.
export PYTHONSTARTUP=$HOME/.python # Needed for some nice features (history in Python)
If you will be running Saphira or Aria, then you also need to set these:
export SAPHIRA=/usr/local/saphira/ver62/ # Needed if you run the Pioneer robots export SAPHIRA_COMPIPE=/tmp/$USER # Needed if you run the Pioneer robots export ARIA=/usr/local/Aria # Needed for Saphira 8.0 export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Aria/bin # Needed for Saphira 8.0
All done!
You can now run Pyro with the command:
% cd pyro % bin/pyro
or put pyrobot/bin in your path and just call pyro.
You should see a window appear, with no error messages.
Optional: Python Command-line History
If you would like a nice command-line history in Python, put the following in your /home/YOURNAME/.python file:
import os, readline histfile = os.path.join(os.environ["HOME"], ".pyhist") try: readline.read_history_file(histfile) except IOError: pass import atexit atexit.register(readline.write_history_file, histfile) #readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete") del os, histfile, readline
and export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.python.
See PyroSetUp for further site customizations. That's it for installation! Have fun!
Trouble Shooting
What are some common problems people might have? Put your question or hint here. Thanks!
Version considerations:
At the PyRo Tar Page there are only old versions of player/stage/gazebo available. It seems that the new versions aren't yet supported. When is this planned?
The next planned version of Pyro (Pyro Version 4.0) is schedule to be ready around March, 2005. It is planned to have an upgraded interface, refactored internals to make some functions "more Pythonic", be compatible with the latest Player/Stage/Gazebo, work with Sony's AIBO, and have versions for Windows and Macintosh.
Additional Notes:
if you are upgrading from an older version of Python, make sure you use your version of python in the calls to setup, like: "python2.2 setup.py build"
if that fails, try: "export PYTHONPATH=" so that the new version of Python doesn't see the older files.
See PyroSetUp for further site customizations
Compiling and installing everything into a brand-new Red Hat 9.0 system required the line
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
in the installer's .bashrc file. This might have been mentioned elsewhere, but it was the key for our install.
Multiuser Robocup-Type Events
Here is an easy project: build a Gazebo or Stage world with as many robots as you have students. Start it on the server. Each student is assigned a port (or you could make robot.py files for each student with the port/hostname already defined). Then each would connect onto the server. You could:
Play soccer
Race to see who grabs the most pucks
Play tag (if your bumpers fire, your out)
Indy 500 racing
One issue with this is that you will need to be able to access each machine. If you have a firewall up, here is how to poke some holes in it. You need to edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables by adding the appropriate lines:
In RedHat 9.0, add:
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 6665:6765 --syn -j ACCEPT
In Fedora Core 2, add:
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 6665:6765 --syn -j ACCEPT
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Patricia Davis Buzzell, 75, of Amarillo died Monday, Jan. 16, 2012.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Schooler Funeral Home Brentwood Chapel with the Rev. Kevin Deckard of Polk Street United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be at 5 p.m. in Hillcrest Cemetery in McLean. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St.
Ms. Buzzell was born Nov. 2, 1936, in Childress to Melvin and Helen Macy Davis. She was raised in Childress until her sophomore year, when the family moved to Wichita Falls. She graduated from Wichita Falls High School in 1955. She then attended Midwestern University where she received her Bachelor of Business Administration on June 5, 1958.
She taught school in Houston and also worked at Uncle Ben's Rice. She and her daughter moved to Amarillo in 1972. Ms. Buzzell started working at Cornell and Co., CPA's in 1972 in the clerical department, while attending West Texas State University at night to receive her accounting degree. She served as a staff accountant and tax manager before passing the CPA exam in 1985. Patricia became the first female partner of Cornell and Co. in 1987, retiring in January. 2011.
Patricia loved the arts in Amarillo and served on numerous boards and committees, including The Lone Star Ballet, Greater Southwest Music Festival, the Amarillo Chamber Red Coat Team, Amarillo Symphony and the musical "Texas". She was a member of Polk Street United Methodist Church.
Patricia was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Virginia Caulkins; and a daughter, Patricia Ruth Buzzell.
Survivors include a brother, James Davis of Gainesville; two nieces; four nephews; and special friends, Frank Prichard, Sam Line and Franke Robertson.
The family will receive guests from 6 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.
The family suggests memorials be to the Amarillo Symphony, 1000 S. Polk St. Amarillo, TX 79101 or to The Lone Star Ballet, 3218 Hobbs Roadd. Amarillo, TX 79109.
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I've mentioned before, how the Lord uses Oswald Chambers to jerk my chain from time to time.
I read his daily devotional every day, love it, recommend it - My Utmost for His Highest - simple to get to online at http://www.rbc.org/utmost/index.php
The more I pondered what he was trying to say, the more I began to tie it together with other things and knew it was time for me to try to express my musing about it. He used this scripture from Exodus 20.....
19 Then they said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, lest we die."
I just kept thinking about how Israel was always wanting a King to rule over them. All the while God is trying to get across to them that He wanted to be their King....He wanted to rule over them....He wanted to be involved personally with each one of them. Now here, in this Exodus scripture, long before the old "we want a king" stuff, they were basically saying the same thing....you do the talking to God thing Moses, then come and talk to us.
So, what's up with that? Pretty simple really (I'll tell you why in a minute) and it's still going on today. That's right back to all I said previously about the Clergy/Laity deception......we see to our modernized version of a king that we still want, Mr King person, you go talk to God.... or Mr. Pastor person, Priest person, Reverend Person, Preacher Man.....you go talk to God and then come back and talk to us........ OK? So..... now....let me tell you why.
We want somebody else to go talk to God, because we are afraid of messing with God ourselves and know that if we go to God directly, we might just have to do what He tells us to do. If I go to God for you and come back to you, you can just blow me off, rationalize it away, tell me I'm judging you, blame somebody else and continue to do what mankind has always done......"they did what was right in their own eyes" That little thing has been going on since that time in the Garden a few years back when Eve bought the lie from Satan that God was really nervous about her eating that apple because then she would be as God , knowing good and evil. Each one of us has been playing God for ourselves ever since.....deciding for ourselves what is good and what is evil and....could care less what God thinks and do not want to go to Him to find out just what it is that He does think! I can tell some other human being to go fly a kite, stick it in your ear or whatever but I am a little reluctant to say that to God......I'm maybe just a little bit afraid I might end up burnt toast or worse..... We just do not understand how much He loves us and longs for us to come to Him....just be real, be honest....I guarantee you will NOT be toast.
Sometime ask me how I know that! :)
I'll leave you with this one..... if we can only discover the incredible depth of God's love for us, we will never, ever be reluctant to have Him as our King, to allow Him to rule over us, to go to Him personally about everything in our lives, to learn to hear His voice, to fall more and more in love with Him every day and desperately desire to follow Him and obey Him every moment of our lives.......in John 14:15 Jesus tells us very simply and clearly "If you love Me, keep My commandments" (obey Me, do what I say, it is for your good, so you will be blessed, so you will come into the fullness of My purpose for you)
It really works that way. Once I saw His great love for me ("He first loved us")....I fell in love with Him....the more I love Him, the more I experience His love, the more I love Him.....on and on...it never stops....and, you know...because I love Him...... I keep His commandments.
Forget about all those guys in the middle....make Jesus your King.....fall in love with Him....and just go direct!


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Interpersonal Communication is more than just an academic field. It's a series of life lessons that applies to all facets of your college experience."
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To ensure that you put theory into practice, classes consist of discussions, hands-on workshops, and small-group activities, which grant an opportunity to use your communication theories and techniques in a real-world scenario.
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Our communication organizations offer you the opportunity to work with other students and utilize the skills you've learned in the classroom.
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Along with active professional organizations such as the Florida Public Relations Association, the American Advertising Federation, and the National Broadcasting Society, you can join our forensic team, our competitive speech and debate program, and Pi Kappa Delta, the oldest honorary speech and debate organization in the nation.
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Four hours. Prerequisites: Successful completion of Effective Communication SLOs A & B. This course focuses on the principles of communication within a variety of organizational structures. Students explore and discuss research on communication networks, how information is processed within systems, and the relationship between communication and organizational culture and climate. Gen Ed: SW
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