📱 EwA Citizen Science: Observe □ Record □ Protect
🔎 ▹ Every observation can contribute to biodiversity science, from the rarest butterfly to the most common backyard weed. Sharing our findings with scientific data repositories help scientists find and use our data. All we have to do is observe. So then… We’re inviting you to participate in our projects. Let’s do it, together!
We are currently maintaining actively 3 projects on iNaturalist:
- EwA Nature Circles (Global – World biodiversity)
- EwA at the Fells (Local – Woodland & Wetland biodiversity in a suburban wildlife reservation)
- EwA at Fresh Pond (Local – Biodiversity in an urban wildlife reservation) 🆕
We also record biodiversity wherever in the world we happen to be in our iNat country-specific projects (e.g., EwA in Romania, EwA in Mongolia, EwA in the UK). As well as we record seasonal fauna & flora cycles on the National Phenology Network platform, Nature’s Notebook (Search for the ‘EwA at the Fells’ project and partner group).
Join our biodiversity projects Enjoy learning & mapping with us!
Citizen Science: What & Why
Citizen science (CS) is scientific research conducted, in whole or in part by non-nonprofessional scientists. Citizen science may be performed by individuals, teams, or networks of volunteers. Citizen scientists often partner with professional scientists to achieve common goals. Large volunteer networks often allow scientists to accomplish tasks that would be too expensive or time-consuming to accomplish through other means.
Why join?…
» Because Citizen science enables people from all walks of life to advance scientific research.
- Because it’s fun and it connects us directly with Nature and the communities around us.
- Because this way we gain invaluable knowledge sharing with naturalists like us and experts all over the world who can help us identify what we see.
- Because recording what we observe helps scientists and resource managers understand when and where organisms occur.
The iNat EwA Biodiversity Projects » Explore & participate!
★ EwA Nature Circles (World Biodiversity)
We encourage our circles’ community to join the EwA Nature Circles citizen science project on iNaturalist and record/post the pictures of the species they encounter during a circle, or when hiking or traveling.
This is open to all our followers wherever they may be in the World. Join us, and share your sightings. Let’s learn from each other while helping science.
★ EwA at the Fells (Woodland and Wetland Citizen Science)
Our mission is simple: Give power to the people to understand the ecology of the Fells, and participate in the active protection of this unique landscape. The program gets nature enthusiasts and volunteers to data-collects relevant species and habitat biodiversity observations over time. It fosters a fundamental understanding of ecology, phenology, and ethics. It helps science and wildlife conservation advocacy.
More Citizen Science…
Here are a couple other popular Citizen Science platforms, which list not only Nature based projects, but also a myriad of great projects in many various disciplines including biology, physics, astronomy, climate, and more.
scistarter is a place to find, join, and contribute to science through more than 1600 formal and informal research projects, events and tools. SciStarter’s database of citizen science projects enables discovery, organization, and greater participation in science. This is also the place to track your contributions, bookmark things you like, and access the tools and instruments needed to get started.
Zooniverse is a large and very popular platform for people-powered research. This research is made possible by volunteers—hundreds of thousands of people around the world who come together to assist professional researchers. Zooniverse’s goal is to enable research that would not be possible, or practical, otherwise. Zooniverse research results in new discoveries, datasets useful to the wider research community, and many publications.
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