World Environment Situation Room - Citizen Science Portal
Key Resources
European Citizen Science Platform
Born from the EU-Citizen.Science project in 2020, the European Citizen Science Platform … (eu-citizen.science) has now become a frequently used and well-populated platform for the broader citizen science community in Europe. The platform represents the main place to share project profiles, resources, training, ideas, events and more, to connect with and strengthen the community. It is also further evolving as the online counterpart of the association itself. The European Citizen Science Platform has been built by the community and for the community. The platform is open to everybody and parts of it are available in 12 languages. It also hosts the Citizen science liighthouse, a blog and a newsletter to reflect on the big issues of citizen science and get fresh news from the community. see more..
Community Tracking Coastal Change
The site is a collaboration between NOAA's Climate Program Office and WHOI Sea Grant. The inventory … of projects grew out of a 2020 project called Engaging Citizens to Monitor and Document Shoreline Flooding and Erosion in the Northeast. Its goal was to increase the capacity of Sea Grant Programs within the NE Region to both mentor and learn from each other by sharing best practices. The project also aimed to help Sea Grant increase its capacity as a leader in the field of citizen science and extension, as applied to monitoring flooding and changing shorelines. Resources developed through the Sea Grant project can be found on the Resources page. see more..
Step Change Navigator in citizen science
The Step Change navigator in citizen science is intended as a valuable resource … for anyone interested in citizen science. It provides a comprehensive overview of the field, practical guidance for project deve- lopment, and inspiring insights from the Step Change project. see more..
An inventory of citizen science activities for environmental policies
This inventory includes citizen science projects relevant for environmental policy and … assess how these projects contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. To this end, a desk-research and an EU-wide survey were used to identify 503 citizen science projects of relevance to environmental policy. The inventory is updated on a regular basis - considering possible additions from trusted sources (such as, for example, the Irish Environment Protection Agency) see more..
AGU. Thriving Earth Exchange
Thriving Earth Exchange supports community science by helping communities find resources, … project managers, and experts to address their pressing concerns. Together they work to help communities be more empowered, resilient, and responsive. see more..
Citizen Science Projects
It is a collection of ideas put together by National Geographic to help people to … take part in citizen science projects. It includes projects on conservation, biodiversity, water, weather, marine environment, landscapes, and the sky. see more..
Citizen Science. Resources for Scientists
This NASA inventory collects best practices, policies, models, and templates … for current and future leaders of citizen science projects, classroom resources, links to the main citizen science projects where NASA is partner, funding opportunities. see more..
EASIN - European Alien Species Information Network
It is a repository of citizen science projects on invasive alien species in Europe, at national or … regional level, targeting single species or specific groups of organisms (plants, insects, aquatic species etc.). The database repository is regularly updated with new emerging Citizen Science projects in Europe. see more..
Citizen sciecne knowledge hub
Citizen science knowledge hub is a place for sharing knowledge, tools, training material and … other resources for participatory projects in biodiversity and ecosystem research. It is a platform that facilitates citizen involvement in scientific activities. It includes: a section devoted to basic knowledge on citizen science, its potential and its applications; a section dedicated to best practices and tutorials on the development and management of citizen-science projects; a section devoted to questions and answers on citizen science; a section devoted to cataloguing both existing and new citizen-science projects with an open-source webGIS for viewing initiatives on a map-based interface; a tool for creating mini-sites for new citizen-science projects; a web application, customisable by users and supporting any citizen-science activity, that provides for the collection of geo-referenced observations; integration between various components and services of LifeWatch. see more..
Atlas of Living Australia
The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is the open access database of the Austrialan Citizen … Science Association on biodiverity in Australia. ALA is a collaborative, digital, open infrastructure that pulls together Australian biodiversity data from multiple sources, making it accessible and reusable. The ALA helps to create a more detailed picture of Australia’s biodiversity for scientists, policy makers, environmental planners and land managers, industry and the general public, and enables them to work more efficiently. The ALA is the Australian node and a full voting member of GBIF – the Global Biodiversity Information Facility – an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world’s governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth. see more..
Participatory Science Platform
The New Zealand Participatory Science Platform supports collaborative, … community projects that bring together communities, science and technology to investigate locally important research questions and problems. see more..
Austrailian citizen science project finder
It is the platform of the Austrialan Citizen Science Association. It offers a … wide collection of projects and initiatives and the opportunity to share your own projects and data. see more..
Scivil
Scivil is the Flemish knowledge centre for Citizen Science. Scivil wants more citizen science … in Flanders and aims to accomplish this by uniting, supporting and informing scientists, citizens, institutions and companies. Thanks to citizen science, citizens can contribute to scientific research and projects, regardless of their background knowledge. Scientists can get help from the public with carrying out scientific tasks, and at the same time citizens can learn the scientific process. This is why Scivil wants to extend the citizen science community in Flanders and offer support to citizen science projects see more..
mit:forschen!
mit:forschen! Gemeinsam Wissen schaffen (formerly Bürger schaffen Wissen) is the … central platform for citizen science in Germany. The platform presents, connects and supports citizen science projects since April 2014. The platform’s main goals are to give an overview of citizen science projects, to inform about the concept of citizen science and strengthen its visibility and acceptance, to further develop the citizen science landscape in Germany and internationally and to contribute to current debates on participatory science. see more..
CitSci India
The CitSci India website lists active biodiversity related citizen science projects … from India. The CitSci conference for biodiversity in India is organised under the umbrella of the Biodiversity Collaborative, a network of institutions and individuals whose shared vision is to promote biodiversity science in India and its application in conservation and sustainable development with a focus on enhancing human well-being. Earlier editions of the conference were conducted as part of a preparatory phase of the National Mission on Biodiversity and Human Well-Being (NMBHWB). see more..
Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences
The Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences (AAPS) is a member-driven … organization that connects people from a wide range of experiences around one shared purpose: advancing knowledge through research and monitoring done by, for, and with members of the public. AAPS is a home for sharing insights from across many related approaches and traditions: citizen science, community science, and volunteer monitoring are just a few. The participatory sciences are expanding the reach, relevance, and impact of science in almost every area of inquiry; in the field and online; through local and global efforts. With increased attention to participatory sciences, AAPS brings depth to how participatory sciences are understood both as public engagement and as research, and shines a light on the integrity and complexity of the practice. see more..
Open
Open is the French portal to facilitate the participation to the observation of the … biodiceristy; it presents participatory projects on biodiversity. see more..
Citizen science portal
It is the Scottisch citizen science portal and collects citizen science projects … that make it easy for you to gather, share, and view data with people that are interested in the same environmental issues as you. see more..
EPA citizen science
It is the Ireland citizen science portal managed by the Environmental Protection … Agency (EPA). It focuses on monitoring biodiversity, invasive species and climate. see more..
Citizen Science Italia
It is the platform connected with the Italian association of citizen science. It collects … all Italian citizen science projects. see more..
Medborgarforskning
The Swedish portal of citizen science dedicated to anyone who wants … to learn more about it. It offers a collection of projects to participate in and contribute to the portal with their own knowledge and experience. see more..
Schweiz forscht
The Citizen Science Platform Schweiz forscht offers not only … projects on various topics such as society, climate, language and space, but also information on citizen science and the national network in Switzerland. see more..
Observatorio de la ciencia ciudadana
The Spanish citizen science observatory offers courses … , projects and experiences to better understand the state of citizen science in Spain. The database is built with the collaboration of users who can share their projects and knowledge with the community. The Observatory of Citizen Science in Spain is an initiative of the Fundación Ibercivis y la FECYT (Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología) see more..
Ciencia ciudadana
The Chilean foundation Ciencia Ciudadana was founded in 2015 … and provides an overview of Chilean citizen science projects on its website. see more..
Citizen science portal
The Canadian citizen science portal is managed by the Canadian government … and offers science projects open to the collaboration of citizens and various stakeholders. see more..
CIVIS
Cívis is a citizen science platform developed by the Brazilian Institute of Information … in Science and Technology (IBICT) using open-source code, based on EU-Citizen.Science. Our goal is to provide infrastructure and content that help broaden the understanding of citizen science, promote its use, and support the development of initiatives and the application of methodologies in this field, with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. see more..
Commons Lab
within the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is a Federal database of USA … government sponsored crowdsourcing and citizen science projects. Their mission is to mobilize public participation and innovation in science, technology, and policy through research and development. see more..
European Citizen Science Association
This is an association supported by organizations from over 17 EU countries and beyond, … who are working together with environmental regulators to encourage the growth of the Citizen Science movement in Europe and internationally. ECSA members cover different fields, such as biological science, do-it-yourself approaches, environmental mapping, social sciences and more. see more...
SciStarter
SciStarter is an online citizen science hub where thousands of projects, searchable by location, … topic, age level, etc., have been registered by individual project leaders or imported through partnerships with federal governments, NGOs, and universities. SciStarter is a research affiliate of several transnational and U.S. universities, coordinator of library and museum citizen science networks, author and provider of open source training modules, data analytics, and publications, and facilitator between projects, media, and community based organizations. SciStarter is a popular citizen science portal, hosting an active community of hundreds of thousands registered SciStarter members and millions of additional site visitors. see more...
Österreich forscht
It is a network of institutions from the fields of science, research, education and … practice providing an inventory of citizen science projects in Austria. see more...
Health
Mosquito Alert
This data set has been created through the efforts of the Mosquito Alert team, … and the thousands of citizen scientists who have volunteered their energy and contributed reports on the Mosquito Alert platform. Participate Now. see more...
Zikka Mozzie Seeker
Zika Mozzie Seeker is a citizen science project from Metro South Health, … Queensland Australia. It works with people in the community to check our yards for invasions by Zika mozzies - Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. The project uses revolutionary screening technology developed by Queensland Health and is a world-first for mosquito monitoring. The project mass screens the collected eggs for traces of the DNA of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. This increase confidence that such mosquitoes are not in the region and detects any invasions of these mosquitoes more easily. see more...
Mozzie Monitors
Mozzie Monitors is a new citizen science initiative to increase public awareness … and mosquito surveillance in urban landscapes, as well increase knowledge of mosquitoes within Australia. The projects has the potential to detect the incursion of exotic mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. The Mozzie Monitors project was originally crowd-funded, with a news and fund-raising campaign run by the University of South Australia. see more...
GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper
The tool allows citizen scientists to train in the GLOBE Mosquito Protocol, identify disease-carrying … mosquitoes, eliminate their breeding sites, and prevent future Zika and other mosquito-borne disease outbreaks. see more...
FluTracking
FluTracking is an online health surveillance system used to detect the potential spread … of influenza and COVID-1. see more...
Open Source Malaria Project
Open Source Malaria (OSM) is aimed at finding new medicines for malaria using … open source principles, embodied in the 6 Laws of Open Research. see more...
Soils for Science
Soils for Science is an Australian-first citizen science program dedicated to finding … new antibiotics needed in the fight against the scourge of drug-resistant infections, better known as superbugs. see more...
FoldIt
Foldit is a one-of-a-kind protein folding computer game developed by university scientists. … By playing Foldit, participants contribute to advanced research on human health, cutting-edge bioengineering, and the inner workings of biology. see more...
Infection Detection
A citizen scidence project developed to help identify antibiotic-resistant bacteria … so scientists can develop faster tests for detecting infections! see more...
EteRNA
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 can collectively help solve the world's biggest scientific problems. see more...
StallCatchers
Stall Catchers is an online game that anyone can play - designed to allow players … to look at movies from the brains of mice to try to identify vessels as flowing or stalled. The project is designed to allow citizens wordwide to speed up Alzheimer's research. see more...
Health Map
This is an established global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats. It delivers real-time intelligence on a broad range of emerging infectious diseases for a diverse audience including libraries, local health departments, governments, and international travelers. The Disease Daily is created by a team of medical doctors, veterinarians, and public health professionals who believe that infectious disease news should be accessible and comprehensible to everyone. As a publication from HealthMap, The Disease Daily has access to real-time reporting of infectious disease events all over the world. While HealthMap alerts the community to the outbreaks, The Disease Daily puts those alerts into context, showing readers the impact of infectious disease on policy, economics, and community.
Biodiversity
iNaturalist
iNaturalist creates technology to help people identify species, learn about biodiversity, and contribute to science. Through … crowdsourcing, it generates openly accessible biodiversity data. see more...
eBird
A global platform to track, share, and explore community bird observations, with nearly 2 billion records made freely … available to support science and conservation. Managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. see more...
OpenTrees.org
The OpenTrees.org software by Azavea is an open source collaborative platform for crowdsourced tree …inventory, ecosystem services calculations, urban forestry analysis, and community engagement. see more...
World Wide Views
provides decision-makers with a unique insight into the global public opinion on complex governance issues that … are debated and negotiated at global venues, such as the issues involving biodiversity.see more...
GLOBE Biosphere
The Biosphere Protocols offer ways to quantify seasonal change, land cover, land use, and the amounts of living and dead … biomass on the land surface. see more...
CyberTracker
CyberTracker projects have been initiated to monitor and help capture observations on a daily basis and make … it possible to visualize changes in the global ecosystem in real time.see more...
ESRI Citizen Science Reporter
Presents one or more maps used to report observations of wild plants or animals. Users can anonymously submit … new reports, review existing reports, and comment and vote on reports or observations submitted by other users. They also can authenticate with their social media or ArcGIS credentials and track the status of observations they have reported. see more...
NatureWatch
This is a community that engages Canadians in collecting scientific information on nature to understand the changing environment. … see more...
Project Noah
This is a leading resource for nature exploration and documentation. Create a mission today and harness the … power of their platform for your cause. see more...
PADDD
Recent research points to the widespread (but largely overlooked) protected area downgrading, downsizing, … and degazettement (PADDD).In response, PADDDtracker.org is documenting the patterns, trends, causes, and consequences of PADDD. PADDDtracker.org allows you to learn about PADDD, track events and share your experiences with the world. PADDDtracker.org is an initiative of the World Wildlife Fund. see more...
GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth. see more...
Air Quality and Weather
GLOBE Countries and Member's Map
(GLOBE) Program is an international science and education program, that provides students and … the public worldwide with the opportunity to participate in data collection and the scientific process, and contribute meaningfully to our understanding of the Earth system and global environment. Announced by the U.S. Government on Earth Day in 1994, GLOBE launched its worldwide implementation in 1995.Video. see more...
SmartCitizen
Helps answer questions like what are the levels of air pollution around your home. … or business? and what about noise pollution? and humidity?. It allows sharing of responses, comparisons with other places in your city to improve environment quality. see more...
Air Quality Egg
A sensor system designed to allow anyone to collect very high resolution readings … of NO2 and CO concentrations outside of their home.see more...
CleanSpace
Measures the air you breathe – allowing you to see harmful pollution wherever and … whenever you need to see more...
Clean Air for London
Aims to achieve full compliance with WHO guidelines for air quality throughout London and elsewhere. … see more...
Citi-Sense project
Shares objective and subjective information about air quality, and acoustic and thermal comfort. … see more...
AirSenseur
Aims to implement a low cost accurate air quality monitoring system to sample a set of … chemical sensors, temperature, pressure and relative humidity. see more...
SpeckSensor App
Allows users to get up-to-date Air Quality Index numbers for their current location to quickly see if … the air they are breathing is healthy and how it compares to other sites. see more...
The Trans-African HydroMeteorological Observatory
(TAHMO) aims to install a dense cost-effective network of 20,000 hydro-meteorological measuring stations … in Africa, each one costing just $500. This network will measure all standard meteorological variables (rainfall, radiation, temperature, humidity, wind speed and wind direction). The data will be combined with models and satellite observations to obtain much more insight into the distribution of water and energy stocks and fluxes in Africa. see more...
Extreme Citizen Science Lab UCL/Mapping for Change
It has low cost Nitrogen Dioxide gas diffusion tubes which were distributed to communities in the city … of London. The accumulated NO2 readings are then posted on a local area map on a website.see more...
Science for Change Kosovo
Science for Change Kosovo (SfCK) currently measures NO2 and PM2.5. … see more...
Oceans
Secchi
This is a mobile interface which encourages mariners to participate in a global study of the phytoplankton in the sea. Phytoplankton support the marine … food chain and scientists need help understanding the effects of climate change on their habitats.
Marine Debris Tracker
This is a joint partnership of the NOAA Marine Debris Division and the Southeast Atlantic Marine Debris Initiative. … (SEA-MDI). It allows users to log and document marine debris. It is available in Google Play and on iTunes for iPhone and iPad.see more...
OpenROV - mapping the world's oceans
An Underwater Drone for Everyone
Pollution
Litter Intelligence
Litter Intelligence is a long-term programme that collects litter data, provides powerful insights … about the problem, and inspires widespread action for solutions. Led by New Zealand charity Sustainable Coastlines, the programme works in close collaboration with the Ministry for the Environment, Department of Conservation and Statistics New Zealand. see more...
GLOBE at Night
The Globe at Night is an international citizen-science campaign to raise public awareness … of the impact of light pollution on health environment and society. Citizen scientists measure the night sky brightness and submit their observations which can then be accessed on the Globe at Night data base. Over 200,000 measurements from 180 countries have been made in the last 14 years. Observers can use the Loss of the Night app developed by Germany’s Cosalux GmbH to help with their observations . The app is available for android devices from the app store. see more...
Loss of the night app
The Loss of the Night app turns your eyes into a light meter, allowing you to become a … citizen scientist and report how bright the night sky is where you live! You can help monitor skyglow using this app! It's based on Google's Sky Map, and lets you make measurements with a very sensitive, stable, and well understood light meter: your eyes! All you need to do is look for certain stars in the sky, and tell us whether you can see them or not. see more...
BuioMetria Partecipativa
The Participatory night sky quality monitoring project started from Italy in 2008. … It promoted collection of data on light pollution using a Sky Quality Meter and fixed SQM stations producing high-quality time series light pollution. Since January 2013 Attivarti.org has represented Italy in a research network involving almost 40 organizations in 18 countries, funded within the European COST programme. see more...
Hush City
Hush City is a free, citizen science app, which empowers people to identify and assess quiet areas … in cities as to create an open-access, web-based map of quiet areas, with the potential of orientating plans and policies for healthier living, in response to issues framed by European environmental policies (e.g. EC END 49/2002). Launched in 2017 within the context of a pilot study in Berlin, Hush City is now used internationally and available in 5 languages: English, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Hush City has been adopted by the Municipalities of Berlin (2018) and Limerick (2020-2022) for the creation of the Plans of Quiet Areas. see more...
Pollution Map
The 'Pollution Map' app (available for both iOS and Android) has been developed by Beijing-based … Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) and uses data from some 15,000 factories throughout China that are now required to report emissions to local officials and the Environment Ministry on an hourly basis. A range of pollution maps are available on the IPE website for China. see more..
Plume Labs
Plume Labs provide a free to use app with details on levels of air pollution. The Plume Labs: Air … Quality App can be downloaded from the app stores. Plume Labs have undertaken a range of innovative air quality monitoring programmes including in 2016 testing out a Pigeon Air Patrol over London. You can read Plume Labs ‘Pigeon Air Patrol’ Case Study at this link. see more...
NoiseTube
Created with the purpose of turning smartphones into mobile noise level meters. The NoiseTube … research project began in 2008 at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris in partnership with the Free University of Brussels to study the public’s exposure to noise in everyday environments. A summary of this closed project can be found on the Sci Starter Citizen Science Platform. see more...
World's worse pollution problems 2015
From 2010 - 2016 Pure Earth ran a ranking of the Worlds Worst Pollution problems. They now have … an interactive map that provides data on completed and operational projects tackling the World's worst pollution problems. see more...
AURORA - Tackling Climate Change
Project AURORA is demonstrating how people can make a difference through the choices they make to reduce the over 30% of carbon emissions linked to residential energy use and transport choices. Citizens can download the AURORA Energy Tracker app from this link. With the app they can measure and bench mark their carbon emissions against their peers using a brand new carbon labelling scheme that tracks performance against the Paris Commission climate change targets. Launched in September 2023 the app now has over 60,000 data points. It is the most comprehensive citizen science project tackling climate change mitiation in Europe. see more...
Exploring the Universe
What3words
This is a unique combination of just 3 words that identifies a 3mx3m square, anywhere on the planet. It helps deliver business efficiencies, … drive growth and help the social & economic development of countries. Example of use: A UN-ASIGN application has been developed by AnsuR for crowd sourcing geo-tagged photos and text from areas affected by large humanitarian disasters to the United Nations entity UNITAR/UNOSAT. Download app iTunes or Android. see more...
ESA citizen science
The European Space Agency (ESA) offers the opportunitu to work on real science withing various projects on space exploration … -- from validation of satellites data to growing crops in space to interpret Mars images -- where the contribution of people is needed. The idea is to improve our understanding of comets, monitoring space weather, verifying images from Earth observation satellites, and much more. But the benefits go both ways: we hope that by opening up ESA data and tools to the public, we are improving the openness of our work, increasing citizen engagement in scientific research, and building stronger connections between science and society. see more...
NASA citizen science
The NASA offers "citizen science" or "participatory science" projects, where volunteers and amateurs can help make … important scientific discoveries. These 29 projects are open to everyone around the world (it is interesting that they specify that "no citizenship required"). Content is available in 11 languages. see more...
SKA Observatory
The SKA Observatory (anext-generation radio astronomy-driven big data facility) offers a list of citizen science … projects that call on the public’s help to do research. Whether it’s recognising patterns or using your computer’s processing power while you’re not using it, you’ll be helping astronomers make sense of what’s out there. see more...
Frontiers
The FRONTIERS project is connected with Virgo, the facility to search for gravitaional waves, and brings together … expertise from frontier scientific research and educational research in formal and informal science learning, along with user communities across Europe, in order to demonstrate how Nobel Prize winning science can be systematically integrated in the school curriculum. see more...
IAU citizen science
The Intenational Astronomical Union (IAU) opens up to the publics with a wide range of opprotunities -- take part in … research, organise events, process images, help to support science projects, contribute to long-term observational studies. see more...
Exoplanet Watch
A NASA citizen science project, sponsored by NASA's Universe of Learning, to help anyone explore exoplanets at … any level, from students to professionals. Participant can gather and analyze real exoplanet data, contribute your results to a NASA database, and get recognition for their work in scientific publications. see more...
Escape
The ESCAPE Citizen Science is an astronomy and astroparticle physics programme that allows the science-inclined … public to take part in research projects to perform tasks that could not otherwise be solved algorithmically and that will contribute to making a wide varierty of fundamental scientific discoveries. see more...
UNIVERSEH
The UNIVERSEH platform aims to create a reciprocal relationship between citizens, students, and researchers to … increase the public’s knowledge of space science, raise awareness of its chances and opportunities, and provide students and researchers with space science citizen-based knowledge. UNIVERSEH offers opportunities to participate and to contribute to space science by participating in a citizen science project. see more...
Galazy Zoo
One of the oldest citizen science projects. For more than a decade, they've asked volunteers to help us explore galaxies near and far, … sampling a fraction of the roughly one hundred billion that are scattered throughout the observable Universe. Each one of the systems, containing billions of stars, has had a unique life, interacting with its surroundings and with other galaxies in many different ways; the aim of the Galaxy Zoo team is to try and understand these processes, and to work out what galaxies can tell us about the past, present and future of the Universe as a whole. see more...
Remote Sensing and Mapping
CartoDB
This is an online mapping software that uses visualization, collaboration, and analysis … to present citizen science data in a simple and beautiful web interface. It offers dynamic rendering and geo-temporal visualizations of real-time maps that show data as it happens. The strength of the platform is in enabling users to easily implement analytically robust data driven solutions. Showcased below are a few examples of maps in action. More examples of maps developed using CartoDB can be found here see more...
Global Forest Watch Open Data Portal
Includes forest change, forest cover, forest use, conservation and people data. … see more...
TAPLA
TAPLA (Terrains d'aventure du passé/pour l'avenir) research group, supported by the … Labex Les passés dans le present (Nanterre University, France) focuse on bulding a collaborative map is to document the sites of the past and present, as well as those that were planned but never existed. The map is based on research in the archives. The map is therefore based on a guide to archive sources, which members of the public are invited to consult if they wish to visit the archive services listed to carry out further research and provide the map with additional information and/or reproductions of documents https://tapla.hypotheses.org/328. This map lists the adventure playgrounds that exist or have existed around the world since they first appeared in the 1940s. It gives their location and date of creation and, for some of them, provides multimedia documentation. see more...
Geopedia
Partisan memorial is a general term for memorial plaques, obelisks, monuments, statues and … similar objects erected after World War II to commemorate fallen partisans and hostages shot. They appear at various sites: at the site of battles, partisan camps, the occupier's prisons, at the sites of the occupier's terror, at illegal hospitals, at courier stations and gateways, at meetings, and at other historical events during the Second World War. see more...
Colouring Dresden
Coloring Drresden aims to collect information on Dresden's buildings in an open digital platform … together with the population and thus make it visible and usable in maps. Together with the citizens, research questions have already been found and prioritized. see more...
The Global Healthsites Mapping
The Global Healthsites Mapping Project is building an open data commons of health facility data … with OpenStreetMap. It is based on the methods and infrastructure of OpenStreetMap, baseline health facility data can be maintained. see more...
Spotteron Interactive Maps
This web-app allows Citizen Scientists to enter data simply via a browser on their laptop or … desktop computer and offers all key features of the smartphone apps, including the Citizen Science community. The interactive map can be easily embedded in every website with an iframe HTML code, and allows data submission via laptop or desktop computer, offering a fullscreen experience for visitors and participants. The map comes with all the features and extensions, which also are available the smartphone apps, including all the community tools like comments, hearts (likes), top spots and much more. see more...
PhenoTandem
Pheno Tandem harmonises the remote sensing approach to vegetation phenology … with the traditional citizen science phenological observations. This goal can be achieved by developing the following objectives: a) Make Citizen Science and Remote Sensing Phenology monitoring interoperable, b) Improve and encourage the capture of phenology data through Citizen Science, c) Achieve agreement on phenology protocols among multiple stakeholders, d) Increase application of high resolution high level products from remote sensing. see more...
The Ocean Clean Up
"The Citizen Science map displays real-time data delivered by citizen scientists using The Ocean Cleanup Survey App … (Android | iOS). To solve the ocean plastic pollution problem, The Ocean Cleanup deploys ocean cleanup systems as well as river interception devices. To refine our cleanup strategy and maximize the impact of our efforts, it is crucial that we have a deep understanding of the transport, accumulation, and composition of plastic pollution in the world’s water bodies. By zooming in on the clusters and clicking on individual survey dots, you can observe the results of our citizen science surveys. see more...
Traces of the Wall
Mauerspuren (Traces of the Wall) is a map-based online research tool developed by the foundation to record traces of … the Berlin Wall still visible today. People can not only use the map for research but take an active role in the documentary project by noting how relics and traces of the wall are changing. see more...
Citizen Science GIS
Citizen Science GIS make geospatial technologies for science more accessible and understandable by fostering … relationships between communities and scientists, of all ages, across the globe. see more...
Waste
Let’s Do It!
Starting in Estonia in 2008, the Let's Do It World Clean Up Day has become the biggest civic movement in human history. … In 2023, 19.1 million participants from 198 Countries and Territories, some 90% of UN Member States collected 218,704 tons of mis-managed waste. In July 2023, the UN recognised 20th September as World Clean Up Day on the UN calendar. You can join and help clean up the planet by downloading the Let's Do It app. see more...
Additional resources
Esri’s ArcGIS Citizen Science Resources: This site provides resources to help you get started with creating applications for citizen science projects, analyzing data and communicating results. Further details can be found on their X account.
Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) University College London: ExCiteS brings together a diverse range of scholars to create the methodologies, tools and guiding theories to help communities start their own Citizen Science projects.
The Eye on Earth Summit 2015: The Eye on Earth Summit 2015 was convened by the Environment Agency Abu-Dabi to explore how to collect share and store environmental data. It was also supported by the Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Resources Institute (WRI). Details of its findings can be found here.
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