Life-Changing Citizen Science (video)

With any pursuit, there are casual dabblers and there are hardcore enthusiasts, and citizen science is no different. In this episode, we'll meet some serious citsci volunteers, some of whom have gone on to pursue full-time careers in science. Projects and websites mentioned in this episode are: Disk Detective Zooniverse Nature's Notebook National Phenology Network (NPN) USA American River Conservancy Journey North I See Change BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) AirCasting, from HabitatMap Citizen Science Association conference Sun/cloud image credit: FurbyChan, via Flickr, Creative Commons license by/nc/2.0/