The Citizen Science Project

Citizen science is when the public helps conduct scientific research. Science related to the phenomena under investigation, for learning to engage in the scientific practices involved in the investigation, and for learning about the nature of science. Scientists often work with unstructured data, such as text or images, then use machine learning to build models and make data-driven decisions. A few sources of data are pollen, carbon trapped in ice cores, fish bones, and traditional knowledge passed from generation to generation. By answering questions about your observations, you contribute to helping researchers publish papers, make scientific discoveries and finding better ways to understand our natural world, our human histories and our wide universe.