Netting & Types of Nets

• Insect Nets The Mississippi Entomology Museum explains the differences between the 3 basic types of insect collecting nets, and provides photos at the bottom of their info page to help demonstrate their colour and structural differences.

Counting

This could involve counting cells in fossil or modern leaves to compare atmospheric influences on biology throughout time, or counting plants or animals in pictures from time-lapsed camera traps. These help scientists set baselines for a variety of topics.

• Fossil Atmospheres "Count cells of modern & fossil leaves. Help us track climate change over millions of years!"

Photography & Measurements

Light Pollution 🌃

"Due to light pollution, the night sky over many of our cities is hundreds of times brighter than a natural, starlit sky. This skyglow hides the stars from our sight and prevents us and all life on Earth from experiencing a natural night, even in areas hundreds of miles away from urban development.

An important part of solving the problem of light pollution is to have a thorough understanding of its magnitude, and a great way to do that is to measure the brightness of the night sky. Thankfully, it is relatively easy to make such measurements, and you can help." - https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution/measuring-light-pollution/ 

• How To Conduct A Sky Quality Survey

•  點擊此處下載指南:  夜空調查說明 (Night Sky Survey Instructions)

Trees

It's not unheard of for volunteers to take photos of trees and measure their trunks to evaluate potential age.

Survey

These can be simple paper or online documents that allow people to include locations and time when they have seen certain animals or had other experiences. Surveys might ask a community about long-lost species they haven't seen since childhood, or ask participants to take more specific measurements with GCIS and photos.

Some of the surveys listed on this page are for firefly sightings, some of which have been absent for a generation or more in certain places, but can still give scientists clues as to what has been lost, and where conservation or reintroduction would be best suited.

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Museums and other organizations have mountains of non-digitalized records dating back over decades or even centuries. In order to make these resources available to scientists and students, they need volunteers to comb through, cataloging the information. 

Some examples include historical records (such as marriage certificates and land deeds) or newspaper clippings, as well as books and papers written by long-dead biologists about the species found in certain locations.

If you are bi/multi-lingual or can read formats such as cursive or shorthand, then your skills could be invaluable for one of these projects.

Many of the Notes from Nature projects listed on this site ask participants to read old reports or simply type out what they see on hand-written specimen labels from museum collections. Super simple, yet time consuming for researchers who need our help!

Water Monitoring

To engage this this type of citizen science, you will need a water test kit (generally given or sold by the organization orchestrating the program), some training, and an internet connection.

Participants perform tests on water samples from their chosen body of water, and make notes of what they see (wildlife, algae, scum, plastic pollution, etc.), often they will include a photo or more, then they can upload this information. The first time creates a baseline, and any future testing or reports can help create a record of the water body's health over time.

This type of information can help politicians, conservationists, and scientists, track the health of their local water bodies. If the water is in poor shape, or getting worse, then they can create a plan to help protect the bodies of water, assess clean up strategies, and hold polluters accountable.

Apps & Projects

International

• DIGIVOL 🌳 🐾 ✏️ "Decipher our collections, discover hidden archives and contribute to knowledge"

• Nest Quest Go: Swifts & Swallows 🐦 🥚 🕰️ ✏️"Join the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Citizen-Science Project, NestWatch in understanding the historical nesting patterns of Swifts and Swallows, including the Tree Swallow, Violet-green Swallow, Northern Rough-Winged Swallow, Barn Swallow, Vaux's Swift, Black Swift, Chimney Swift, and White-throated Swift. Swallows nest in nearly any cavity they can find, no matter how unconventional the nesting site is. This often means they are found nesting in dead tree or cliff cavities, old woodpecker cavities, holes in the ground, or old nesting sites from other swallows, forming their nests out of grass, twigs, and feathers. Swifts, however, build their nests primarily out of twigs and mud, using their amazing glue-like saliva to hold the twigs together.
  
  These nest record cards are a subset of a larger collection of more than 300,000 nest records that NestWatch is working on digitizing and transcribing. Valuable scientific questions can be asked and answered regarding the nesting behavior of birds over time by examining historical records. We hope to bring new discoveries to light using these previously hidden datasets."

• Penguin Watch 🐧 # 📷 "Count penguins, chicks and eggs in far away lands to help us understand their lives and environment." Anyone over 5 years old can do this using the time lapse cameras.

• Whale Chat 🐋 🎧 ✏️"Identification and classification of humpback whale vocalizations"

Atmosphere & Climate Change

• Fossil Atmospheres 🌿 🔍 🧩"Count cells of modern & fossil leaves. Help us track climate change over millions of years!"

Disease Spread & Antibiotic Resistance

• Infection Inspection 🦠 "Help us identify antibiotic-resistant bacteria so we can develop faster tests for detecting infections!"

• ResistanceBank.org 🦠 The open access repository for surveys and maps of antimicrobial resistance in animals. Includes maps of antimicrobial resistance. Downloadable data about antimicrobial resistance or add your own survey.

• Notes from Nature: Terrestrial Parasite Tracker 🦠 "Parasitic arthropods inflict an enormous burden on human society; they afflict human health and the animals on which we depend. The negative effects of parasitic arthropods are exacerbated by current climate and ecosystem change. Fleas that vectored the pathogen causing bubonic plague wreaked havoc on historic human populations. Mosquitos continue to vector pathogens responsible for malaria and dengue, and ticks vector the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease; these arthropod borne pathogens infect and kill millions of people each year. Arthropod-borne pathogens can also have a significant impact on our livestock, which poses a serious threat to agriculture and food security globally. Entomology collections around the world host valuable information about the diversity and distribution of these arthropod vectors through space and time, yet these data have not been synthesized or made visible to scientists across the many relevant disciplines.
  
  The goal of the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT) project is to mobilize and digitally capture vector and parasite collections to help build a picture of parasite host-association evolution, distributions, and the ecological interactions of disease vectors which will assist scientists, educators, land managers, and policy makers."

Fungi

• Mapping Change 🍄 🌐"Help us use over a century's worth of specimens to map the distribution of animals, plants, and fungi. Your data will let us know where species have been and predict where they may end up in the future!"

Light Pollution

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Plants

• DIGIVOL 🌳 🐾 ✏️ "Decipher our collections, discover hidden archives and contribute to knowledge"

• The RBGE Herbarium: Exploring Gesneriaceae, the African Violet Family 🌺"The Gesneriaceae are a family of tropical herbs and shrubs that are of great ecological importance, many of which are under threat from habitat loss. The herbarium collections underpin all of our research; from taxonomy to phylogenetics."

• Fossil Atmospheres  🌿🔍 🧩 "Count cells of modern & fossil leaves. Help us track climate change over millions of years!"

• Mapping Change 🌿🐾 🍄 🌐 "Help us use over a century's worth of specimens to map the distribution of animals, plants, and fungi. Your data will let us know where species have been and predict where they may end up in the future!"

• Tag Trees 🌲 🌳 🌴 "Scientists at Restor are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to find trees and track the progress of forest restoration efforts worldwide. We need your help to train and improve our models!
  
  Repairing and restoring nature is vital for halting biodiversity loss and tackling climate change. But a lack of transparency around reforestation projects is eroding the trust needed to increase funding and accelerate & scale projects.
  
  To increase transparency and reduce the time and costs associated with project monitoring, Restor has developed an AI model that identifies trees in photos taken by drones. The model is trained by feeding it thousands of images with pre-labeled trees — and we are looking for volunteers to improve and validate our training data by tagging trees in images."

• Unfolding of Microplant Mysteries 🔍 🌿 "‘Microplants’ are often tiny plants, technically called bryophytes, and are the second largest group after flowering plants. Despite their small size microplants are vital in our understanding of the evolutionary history of plants and are of great ecological and environmental significance. Because of their small size, they are often overlooked in many habitats throughout the world. Many new species remain to be discovered! Please help classify microplants morphology: the study of the form of organisms and their specific structural features. This mystery will explore key morphological characteristics associated with the liverwort genus called Frullania."

Plastic Pollution

• The Plastic Tide

Water Quality

• Water Ranger App 💧 🚨  Helps you monitor and map water quality in bodies of water that may not receive any testing or legal protection otherwise, due to lack of funding or environmental staff around the world.

Africa

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

• The RBGE Herbarium: Exploring Gesneriaceae, the African Violet Family 🌺 "The Gesneriaceae are a family of tropical herbs and shrubs that are of great ecological importance, many of which are under threat from habitat loss. The herbarium collections underpin all of our research; from taxonomy to phylogenetics."

• Buzzy Bee - African Canopy Pollinators 🦋 🐝 "Help us identify insect pollinators of large African timber trees!"

• Chimp&See 🐵🌳🐾 📷 "The Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee (PanAf), based out of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthroplogy in Leipzig, Germany, aims to understand the ecological and evolutionary drivers that have contributed to the behavioral and cultural diversity of chimpanzees. For this, the program has been collecting systematic ecological, social, demographic and behavioral data at 40 chimpanzee populations spread out over their whole natural range."

Botswana

• Elephant ID 🐘 📷 "Researchers at Elephants Alive tracking elephants in South Africa developed a System for Elephant Ear-patterns Knowledge (SEEK) for identifying individuals using their unique ear notch patterns and other identifying characteristics. This coding system assigns each elephant a specific identification (ID) code.
  
  Here, we seek help from volunteers to apply this method to an elephant population in Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, Botswana, which is monitored by Snapshot Elephants for Africa."

Egypt

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Gabon

• Buzzy Bee - African Canopy Pollinators 🐝🦋 "Help us identify insect pollinators of large African timber trees!"

Malawi

• FreshWater Watch: Lilongwe 💧 🚨 "Welcome to the group page for Lilongwe."

Mozambique

• WildCam Gorongosa 🌳 🐾 📷 "Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique was once among the most diverse places on Earth, but decades of war decimated the park's large animal populations. Now, an international conservation effort is working to restore the park's wildlife — and we need you to help document this incredible recovery. Join us in identifying Gorongosa's animals in trail camera photos and become part of our conservation team!"

Namibia

• Atlasing in Namibia 🌴🦁 🐍🐊🐘🦉 🦩🐢 🌺 ✏️🌐  "Citizen science projects recording biodiversity and cultural heritage in Namibia"

Sierra Leone

• FreshWater Watch: Rokel River Basin 💧 🚨

Sudan

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Tunisia

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Zambia

• FreshWater Watch: WWF Zambia 💧 🚨 "the Zambian Water Resources Management Authority and the Wildlife Society of Zambia are monitoring key areas of the Kafue River catchment and the upper part of the Zambesi River catchment. Citizen scientists from local communities, gage-readers and leading schools are exploring spatial and temporal changes in the river quality, with the objective to contribute to national SDG reporting."

Asia

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Arab Emirates

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Bahrain

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

China

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

India

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Irac

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Japan

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Kuwait

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Saudi Arabia

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

South Korea

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Thailand

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Turkey

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Quatar

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Vietnam

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Belgium

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

• FreshWater Watch: 💧 🚨

• FreshWater Watch: 💧 🚨

Deutschland / Germany 

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

• Meldung von Ereignissen in Deutschland (German/Deutsch) "Haben Sie in Deutschland Glühwürmchen oder Glühwürmchen gesichtet? Vielleicht möchtest du deine Beobachtung teilen und sende eine kurze Nachricht... Dazu müssen Sie lediglich die sieben Fragen aus dem untenstehenden Fragenkatalog kurz per E-Mail beantworten."

• Sächsische Glühwürmchenprojekt "Eine SEHR ausführliche Erfassung von Lamprohiza splendidula-Vorkommen in Sachsen mit hoher zeitlicher und räumlicher Auflösung" "Please let us know:

  • if you've spotted fireflies on a night hike

  • if you have looked for them in vain in certain places

  • if your parents or grandparents know places where fireflies used to be"

France

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

• LIFE Vison: Save the European mink  🌳 🐾 📷 "Identify species in photographs from camera traps in France" "Help us analyse the photos of the fauna present in the Charente catchment in France! You may observe fox, water vole, genet, otter, weasel, badger, stone marten, wild boar, amphibians, birds and even the critically endangered European mink if you are lucky! These data are precious as they help us to characterize the population left in the Charente catchment in France, one of the last places where the European mink is not in competition with the invasive American mink."

• TETTRIs, jouons ensemble ! 2 "Le projet européen TETTRIs vise à produire un changement transformateur du rôle de la taxonomie dans la connaissance de la biodiversité." This is one project from Les Herbonautes.

• Wild Mont-Blanc 🌳 🐾 📷 "Forty camera traps installed across France’s Mont-Blanc massif are giving us a powerful new window into the dynamics of alpine wildlife species. The Research Center for Alpine Ecosystems (CREA Mont-Blanc) needs your help to identify all the different animals caught in hundreds of thousands of camera trap images."

• Les missions spéciales de l'Observatoire des Vers Luisants "Une petite balade de 200 à 300 m près de chez vous, environ une heure après le coucher du soleil, par temps clair, durant laquelle vous comptez les vers luisants de part et d'autre du chemin à l'aller et au retour. C'est peu pour vous, mais beaucoup pour nous ! Nous vous préparerons un itinéraire approprié et une fiche de mission, qu'il vous suffira de nous retourner complétée par mail."

• FreshWater Watch: PICOL'EAU 💧 🚨 "Projet Interdisciplinaire COLlaboratif pour les plans d'EAU d'Ile-de-France."

Greece

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Ireland

• Biological Records Centre: Mammals: Species Recording Form ✏️ 🐾

• Bumblebee Monitoring Scheme 🐝 "The All-Ireland Bumblebee Monitoring Scheme monitors bumblebees on a monthly basis from March to October each year, generating detailed information on bumblebee populations and how they are changing."

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

• FreshWater Watch: 💧 🚨

• FreshWater Watch: 💧 🚨

• Ireland's Citizen Science Portal "The National Biodiversity Data Centre works to make biodiversity data and information more freely available in order to better understand and assist the protection of Ireland’s biodiversity."

Shark Trust 🦈 projects include: 

• Angling Project 🎣 "Depending on where you’re fishing, around 20 species of shark, skate and ray might be encountered by sea-anglers in the UK and Ireland. The aim of this project is to ensure this fantastic diversity remains for future generations of anglers."

• Basking Shark Project ✏️ 🦈 🔭 "You can help us learn more about these gentle giants by being on the look-out for them during May-October (Basking Shark Season). And, if you spot one, by recording your sighting on our Shark Sightings Database.
  
  Today, Basking Sharks are one of the most widely protected and managed sharks in UK and EU waters. Yet, surprisingly little is known about them. Partly because of the difficulty in conducting field research." 

Italy / Italia

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

• FreshWater Watch: ASUD  💧 🚨

• FreshWater Watch: Basso Piave 💧 🚨 "L’Autorità di Bacino Distrettuale delle Alpi Orientali ha avviato l’intervento non strutturale denominato “riqualificazione fluviale del tratto terminale del Piave nel tratto compreso tra Ponte di Piave e la foce” (codice misura del PGRA lTN 007_2VDS_0 02_M 33 e ITN00 7_2 VDS_00 7_M 33).
  
  Tale misura si propone non solo di determinare la reale portata del tratto terminale del fiume Piave, ma è anche orientata alla tutela ambientale del corso d’acqua e alla valutazione dei servizi che l’ecosistema del Basso Piave fornisce.
  
  Il tutto per orientare le autorità locali e le comunità attraverso scelte di programma volte a migliorare la gestione del territorio. In tal senso, una delle attività previste è la caratterizzazione dell’ecosistema attraverso lo strumento di citizen science — scienza dei cittadini."

• FreshWater Watch: Idice 💧 🚨 "Using FreshWater Watch, citizen scientists are playing a key role in providing the groundwork for the development of the Idice River Contract, together with the participation of local government and key regional stakeholders. The Idice project was born from the bottom up and continues thanks to the joint participation of many citizens' associations in the area. The key challenges for the conservation of the river ecosystem are the pressures from the growing city of Bologna as well as surrounding agricultural activities and modifications to the river channel."

• FreshWater Watch: LaGorà 💧 🚨 "Ciao, questa è la pagina del nostro gruppo di monitoraggio del Fiume Elsa."

• FreshWater Watch: Marzenego 💧 🚨

• FreshWater Watch: OutBe 💧 🚨 "is a young start-up working directly with citizen science, whose goal is connecting science, society and nature through outdoor sports. Currently, one of its focus is directed towards the hiking community and the possibilities offered by this wide pool of nature-loving people in the protection and valorization of freshwater habitats."

• FreshWater Watch: Osservatorio UNISI 💧 🚨

• SIREN Project  ✏️ 🕰️ 💧 🚨 "The collection of hydrological data in Italy has been managed at the national level by the National Hydrological and Mareographic Service (SIMN) since early 1900. The dismantlement of the SIMN, performed about 30 years ago, resulted in data collection being transferred to a regional level. This change has determined problems in the availability of complete and homogeneous data for the whole country. Historical hydrological measurements are usually available only in the printed version of the Hydrological Yearbooks and limited efforts have been spent to digitize this collection.
  
  Within the SIREN (Saving Italian hydRological mEasuremeNts) project we aim to digitize these data by crowd-sourcing the recovery of hydrological measurements from historical Hydrological Yearbooks to produce a consistent dataset."

Portugal

• Iberian Camera Trap Project 🌳 🐾 📷 "Help us implement an automated biodiversity monitoring system in the Iberian Peninsula using Artificial Intelligence."

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Russia

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Spain

• Iberian Camera Trap Project 🌳 🐾 📷 "Help us implement an automated biodiversity monitoring system in the Iberian Peninsula using Artificial Intelligence."

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Schweizer / Switzerland

• Alpine Bug Shot 🦋 🐝 "Help us build a database of insects in the Swiss Alps and train AI for automated pollinator monitoring!"

• Österreichische Glühwürmchenprojekt "Informationen der österreichischen Umweltberatung mit Meldungssammlung (inkl. einsehbarer Karte und Auflistung) und downloadbarer Infos zur glühwurmgerechten Gartengestaltung."

• Schweizer Glühwürmchen Projekt "Leuchtkäfersichtungssammlung für die Schweiz und viel, viel Informationsmaterial (u.a. auch downloadbare Infos zur glühwurmgerechten Gartengestaltung)" "We would be happy if you report firefly observations to us!
  
  The observation reports from Switzerland are received on the Citizen Science platform StadtWildTiere / Wilde Nachbarn."

• Wilde Nachbarn  ✏️ 🐾 "Haben Sie ein Wildtier entdeckt? Melden Sie uns Ihre Beobachtungen.
  
  Viele Arten werden nicht systematisch erfasst, weshalb Einzelbeobachtungen einen wichtigen Beitrag dazu leisten können diese Arten längerfristig zu überwachen und Populationsveränderungen frühzeitig zu erkennen."

Ukraine

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

England

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

• DUNA ✏️ 🕰️ 🌿 "Digitally Unlocking Nature’s Archive: help us to transcribe manuscripts from the Library and Archives of the Natural History Museum, London."

• London Bird Records 🏙️ 🐦 🕰️ ✏️ "The main goal of this project is to recover historic species data so that the information can be used by ecologists, conservationists, decision-makers and anyone else who is interested. This will improve knowledge of bird populations and distribution in London, and allow historical bird data to be made available for scientific research."

• Seabirdwatch 🌊🐦# ✏️ "count kittiwakes across the northern hemisphere, 'Kittiwake nests - Scotland' to count kittiwakes in Scotland, or 'European Shags - Guernsey' to count Shags in Guernsey."

Northern Ireland

• Bumblebee Monitoring Scheme 🐝 "The All-Ireland Bumblebee Monitoring Scheme monitors bumblebees on a monthly basis from March to October each year, generating detailed information on bumblebee populations and how they are changing."

• CEDaR (Center for Environmental Data and Recording) Online Recording Click the link to see what projects are available. They have specific links for Owls, Butterflies, Marine, Invasive Species, Lady Birds and more! Some of the links will take you to projects for specific regions including the Ring of Gullion and Belfast Hills.

• Ireland's Citizen Science Portal "The National Biodiversity Data Centre works to make biodiversity data and information more freely available in order to better understand and assist the protection of Ireland’s biodiversity."

• True Harvest Seeds: Citizen Science 4 Community Action 🌱 

Scotland

• Seabirdwatch "count kittiwakes across the northern hemisphere, 'Kittiwake nests - Scotland' to count kittiwakes in Scotland, or 'European Shags - Guernsey' to count Shags in Guernsey."

• Sightings of Red and Grey Squirrels Across Scotland 🐿️

North America

• Audobon Christmas Bird Count 🐦"The nation's longest-running community science bird project fuels Audubon's work throughout the year. The Christmas Bird Count occurs December 14 to January 5 every season. Sign up to receive information and results about all of Audubon's community science programs through American Birds, our email newsletter."

• Beluga Bits 🐋 📷 ✏️ "Examine underwater photos of wild beluga whales and help us identify the age, sex, and group size. We also need keen eyes to look for identifying marks to recognize beluga that return to this location year after year."

Canada

• Letters from Lowlands project 🌿 🔍 ✏️ "is dedicated to the transcription of herbarium specimens containing crucial biodiversity data that describes the world's third-largest wetland. We have two distinct topics for the workflows: information about the person who collected the specimen ("Whodunit?") and information about the place where it was collected."

• Notes from Nature: Digitizing Biological Collections in Canada 🦋 🦠 🍄 🌿 ✏️ "Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) maintains collections of living and preserved biological material. These add up to millions of physical holdings of insects, plants, fungi, bacteria, and nematodes. With your help transcribing the labels from our collections, we can bring this biodiversity data online and available for research and discovery."

• Squirrel Mapper 🐿️ 🌎 "Classify squirrels to measure natural selection in action." This project focuses on eastern gray squirrel Sciurus carolinensis. Since the data comes from iNaturalist, some of the photos are of dead squirrels.

Mexico

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

USA

• The Tick App (USA) 🦠 🦟 "Concerned about the risk of tick bites in your parks and neighborhood? Join our efforts to make your neighborhood a safer place for you, your family, and your pets! Download The Tick App today to report your tick encounters and to help further our research efforts."

• Notes from Nature: Invertebrate Time Machine ✏️ 🕰️ 🌿 "Transcribe historical marine invertebrate labels to activate specimen data for research"

• Notes From Nature - Southeastern U.S. Biodiversity ✏️ 🕰️ 🌿 "SERNEC (SouthEast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections) is a consortium of 233 herbaria in 14 states in the southeastern USA. Our aim is to provide herbarium specimen images and metadata from one of the most botanically diverse regions of the earth with the goal of facilitating research, management planning and a well-informed public. These data span 200 years of botanical information housed in herbaria in the Southeast and are vital to studies in biodiversity, evolution, ecology and systematics to name a few."

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

• Squirrel Mapper 🐿️ "Classify squirrels to measure natural selection in action." This project focuses on eastern gray squirrel Sciurus carolinensis. Since the data comes from iNaturalist, some of the photos are of dead squirrels.

• Wild Southwest  ✏️ # 🐾"Help wildlife managers in the southwestern US assess populations of native and invasive species!"

Français

• Les missions spéciales de l'Observatoire des Vers Luisants "Une petite balade de 200 à 300 m près de chez vous, environ une heure après le coucher du soleil, par temps clair, durant laquelle vous comptez les vers luisants de part et d'autre du chemin à l'aller et au retour. C'est peu pour vous, mais beaucoup pour nous ! Nous vous préparerons un itinéraire approprié et une fiche de mission, qu'il vous suffira de nous retourner complétée par mail."

• L'observatoire des vers luisants et des lucioles "Avez-vous déjà vu des vers luisants ou des lucioles ?" "Vous n'avez jamais vu de ver luisant ? S'il-vous-plaît, remplissez quand même ce formulaire. Il est important de disposer d'un nombre suffisant de jardins sans ver luisant pour comparer."

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Arkansas

• Notes from Nature - Plants of Arkansas ✏️ 🕰️ 🌿 "Releasing 150 years of accumulated biodiversity knowledge in the Natural State."

California 

• Año Nuevo Island - Animal Count ✏️ # 🐾"Located just north of Santa Cruz, Año Nuevo Reserve is a part of the University of California’s Natural Reserve System and is home to thousands of marine mammals and birds. Each year, nearly 100,000 visitors come to Año Nuevo Reserve to observe northern elephant seals and learn about the history of the reserve on docent-led tours. On these tours, Año Nuevo Island can be observed just offshore, with the remains of a 19th century lighthouse and fog signal station visible from the mainland. However, Año Nuevo Island is only visited by researchers and conservation groups that study the many species of nesting birds as well as marine mammals that frequent its shores. Now the public has the opportunity to get an up-close look at the island, while also helping researchers count the seals and sea lions that call Año Nuevo home. Take a trip around the island with us to explore the abundance and distribution of life on Año Nuevo Island!"

• Notes from Nature - CalBug ✏️ 🦋 🐜 🦂 "Natural history collections house over a billion insect specimens worldwide collected over several centuries. Specimen labels encode data denoting species, location, and date captured and are used to study biogeographic patterns, spread of invasive species, and responses to land use, climate, and other environmental changes. However, access to data is impractical for most of the research community. Because of enormous collection sizes, entomology has lagged behind other disciplines in digitizing collections. In 2010, funded by the National Science Foundation, the eight major terrestrial arthropod collections in California formed CalBug, a collaborative effort to digitize and georeference insects and spiders collected throughout California, adding hundreds of thousands of records to the California Terrestrial Arthropods Database."

• Notes from Nature - Capturing California's Flowers ✏️ 🕟 🌿 "Using digital images to investigate ​phenological change in a biodiversity hotspot​"

• Wildwatch Burrowing Owl 🦉"seeks to document the behaviors and developmental milestones of burrowing owl families “holed up” in Otay Mesa, CA. Motion-activated cameras are strategically positioned at burrow entrances to collect candid data.
  
  We need your help classifying the images! Your efforts will give researchers a clearer understanding of burrowing owl ecology and behavior, as well as visitors (and predators) to the burrows. The information gathered will help land managers balance land use (development) and wildlife conservation."

Colorado

• Project RattleCam 🐍 #  📷 ✏️ "We placed cameras at Prairie Rattlesnake rookeries and took photos every 5 minutes. We need your help in looking at these images and telling us whether snakes are present in each image, if so how many adult and/or baby snakes are present, and what they are doing. We will use the results to study their social behavior, how they obtain water, identify their predators, and more."

Delaware

• Chesapeake Water Watch 💧 🚨 "is a joint project between the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the City College of New York (CCNY). Our researchers are developing new ways to use remote sensing to fill in water monitoring gaps. We're testing these tools in our backyard - the Chesapeake Bay, aka our nation's largest estuary. We are partnering with Riverkeepers and individuals like you to collect data with simple-to-use scientific equipment and smartphone applications. These measurements collected by people on the ground will be used by researchers to help "train" the satellites to accurately monitor the Bay."

Florida

• Manatee Chat "Identification and classification of manatee calls"

• Notes from Nature - WeDigFLPlants ✏️ 🕰️ 🌿 "Build the historical baseline for plant diversity and distribution in Florida."

Georgia

• Marsh Explorer "Explore the salt marshes with us to learn more about spatial relationships among different species!"

Hawaii

• OceanEYEs 🐟 🐠 # 📷"NOAA scientists need your help to count fish and improve data used in management of the Hawaiʻi “Deep 7” bottomfish fishery! NOAA's Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center deploys stereo-camera systems on the seafloor to help monitor populations of deep-water snappers and groupers. The local commercial fishery in Hawaiʻi targets these fish primarily. Each camera can record tens of thousands of images! Human observers annotate the images to count and measure each species. This can take months using only a small team of researchers. With your help, we can speed up the work and train machine vision algorithms to improve our analysis. This will make us one step closer to improving fish stock assessments, which are used by fishery managers!"

Illinois

• Angling for Data on Michigan Fishes ✏️ 🕰️ 🐟 "Transcribe data from decades of historical surveys to reveal how and why fish communities in Michigan Lakes have changed over time"

• Chicago Wildlife Watch "To find out which animals live in Chicago, we’ve collected more than 1 million photos of wildlife from the Loop to the burbs. To ID them, though, we need your help! Chicago Wildlife Watch, developed by Lincoln Park Zoo and the Adler Planetarium, lets everyone help us understand how animals—from coyotes to chipmunks—share this great city."

Iowa

• Tall Grass Prairie Center: Community Science "This page is dedicated to make community science more accessible by showcasing several apps and websites in one spot to get you started."

Indiana

• Angling for Data on Michigan Fishes  ✏️ 🕰️ 🐟 "Transcribe data from decades of historical surveys to reveal how and why fish communities in Michigan Lakes have changed over time"

Massachusetts

• Outsmart Invasives 👽 "The goal of the project is to strengthen ongoing invasive-species monitoring efforts in Massachusetts by enlisting help from citizens. The web- and smartphone-based approach enables volunteers to identify and collect data on invasive species in their own time, with little or no hands-on training."

Michigan

• Angling for Data on Michigan Fishes ✏️ 🕰️ 🐟 "Transcribe data from decades of historical surveys to reveal how and why fish communities in Michigan Lakes have changed over time"

• Yooper Wildlife Watch  🌳 🐾 📷 "Help identify the amazing wildlife caught on camera in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Your contribution will help advance our understanding of these incredible species."

Minnesota

• Cedar Creek: Eyes on the Wild 🌳 🐾 📷 "Help researchers untangle the complex and surprising interactions among North American fauna!"

• Offal Wildlife Watching 🥩"The purpose of this research is to better understand what and when species use deer gut piles provided by hunters across Minnesota. Minnesota offers a unique opportunity to look at this across four different biomes and a major metropolitan area, different hunting methods (rifle, archery, and shotgun), and different scavenger assemblages. Hunters are uniquely positioned to record everything that comes in to feed on gut piles by setting a camera immediately after field dressing a deer."

• Woodpecker Cavity Cam 🌳🐦📷 " Researchers at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, the University of Minnesota, and volunteers with the Red-headed Woodpecker Recovery Project and Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis have collaborated to place trail cameras outside of red-headed woodpecker cavities at Cedar Creek. Now we need your help to go through the thousands of videos we've collected to document how and when different animals use these cavities, and how nest predators and competition may impact nesting red-headed woodpeckers."

Montana 

• Western Montana Wildlife 🌳 ☠️ 🐾 📷 "The MPG Ranch promotes conservation through restoration, research, education and information sharing. For more information, please see our website."

New Jersey

• Chesapeake Water Watch 💧 🚨 "is a joint project between the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the City College of New York (CCNY). Our researchers are developing new ways to use remote sensing to fill in water monitoring gaps. We're testing these tools in our backyard - the Chesapeake Bay, aka our nation's largest estuary. We are partnering with Riverkeepers and individuals like you to collect data with simple-to-use scientific equipment and smartphone applications. These measurements collected by people on the ground will be used by researchers to help "train" the satellites to accurately monitor the Bay."

New Mexico

• Wild Southwest "Help wildlife managers in the southwestern US assess populations of native and invasive species!"

Oklahoma

• Notes from Nature - Flora of Texas and Oklahoma ✏️ 🕰️ 🌿 "Help liberate over 200 years of botanical information from scientific herbarium specimens!"

Puerto Rico

• Monkey Health Explorer 🧬 🩸 🐒 "Help us learn more about monkey health by identifying white blood cell types." "Our research team is studying the health of rhesus macaque monkeys on the island of Cayo Santiago in Puerto Rico. We are working with many other scientists as part of a large collaborative project to improve understanding of the relationship between the behaviour of the monkeys and the genes they have."

Texas

• Notes from Nature - Flora of Texas and Oklahoma ✏️ 🕰️ 🌿  "Help liberate over 200 years of botanical information from scientific herbarium specimens!"

• Texas Invasives: Citizen Science 👽 "The Invaders of Texas Program is an innovative campaign whereby volunteer "citizen scientists" are trained to detect the arrival and dispersal of invasive species in their own local areas. That information is delivered into a statewide mapping database and to those who can do something about it. The premise is simple. The more trained eyes watching for invasive species, the better our chances of lessening or avoiding damage to our native landscape." You can report species sightings here.

Utah

• PELIcams 🦩 📷 "Pelicans at Great Salt Lake need your help and so do the scientists who study them!"

Western Australia

• Western Shield: Camera Watch🌳 🐾 📷 "Discover the night life of the jarrah forest of Western Australia"

New Zealand 

• Spyfish Aotearoa 🐙 🦈🐟 🐠 # 📷 "Our team deploys baited underwater cameras in marine reserves all over Aotearoa New Zealand to monitor the abundance and diversity of marine life.
  
  Help us identify and count the species of fish recorded by the cameras. Your classifications will be used to determine the effectiveness of the reserves, inform marine management, and protect our taonga (treasured) species."

• Wilding Watch 👽 🌲 "allows users to see for themselves the spread of wilding conifers across the country and upload their own images to help identify new invasions across New Zealand,"

South America

• Audobon Christmas Bird Count 🐦"The nation's longest-running community science bird project fuels Audubon's work throughout the year. The Christmas Bird Count occurs December 14 to January 5 every season. Sign up to receive information and results about all of Audubon's community science programs through American Birds, our email newsletter."

Argentina

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Brasil

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Chile

• Cities At Night 🌃 "is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using color pictures with 10 times more resolution than it was available for the public so far.
  
  With this database of almost half a million photographs we work on organizing, cataloging, georeferencing and calibrate for science research purposes."

Resources

• British Ecological Society: Citizen Science Hub "A series of training resources, case studies, and contact details for those interested in conducting Citizen Science projects."

Asia

Hong Kong

• Guide to Running a BioBlitz for Hong Kong Schools (PDF) 

Organizations

International

• Citizen Science Global Partnership "A network-of-networks that seeks to promote and advance citizen science for a sustainable world."

Europe

• European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) " was set up to encourage the growth of citizen science in Europe, and to support the participation of the general public in research processes – across science, social science, humanities and the arts.
  
  ECSA is a membership association that brings together many stakeholders  who want to increase the democratisation of knowledge production. We are open to both individual and organisational members; currently, our hundreds of members come from countries across the European Union and beyond.
  
  ECSA supports its members by coordinating citizen science projects, performing research on citizen science, and exchanging experiences and capacity-building. Most of our activities are led by members, and often organised through our thematic working groups. These working groups rely on volunteers, who commit their time and expertise to our activities.
  
  In addition to these activities, ECSA engages in research and coordination projects, and acts as a communications hub for citizen science in Europe. These tasks are led by the ECSA team, which has its headquarters in Berlin, generously provided by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin."

France

• Les Herbonautes "Ce site vous propose de participer à la création d'une base de données scientifique à partir des millions de photos des plantes de l'herbier de Paris et du réseau des collections naturalistes françaises. A vous d'explorer ces plantes et leurs étiquettes pour déterminer quand et où elles ont été récoltées. Les données que vous trouverez sont des éléments précieux pour mieux connaitre la biodiversité et mesurer et prévoir son érosion(en savoir plus)."

UK

• British Ecological Society "We are working towards a world in which nature and people thrive."

Oceana

Australia

• The Atlas of Living Australia "Open acess to Australia's biodiversity data"

Grants

International

• Animal Charity Evaluators "ACE Movement Grants (formerly “Effective Animal Advocacy Fund”) is for anyone who is interested in making the animal advocacy movement more effective."

• EA Animal Welfare Fund "The Animal Welfare Fund supports advocacy, research, and movement-building work aimed at improving the wellbeing of nonhuman animals, primarily farmed and wild animals. This includes corporate and policy advocacy, research, and the promotion of alternative products."