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Skeptic paper doesn’t necessarily “reject the consensus position” that humans are causing global warming. It may address a more narrow issue like ocean acidification or the carbon cycle.
CycloneCenter.org is the perfect place where “citizen scientists” can analyze past hurricane photos (over 300,000) in a series of controlled questions to determine the maximum wind speeds of past...
"Forests play a huge role in regulating climates at global scale and provide livelihoods for many millions of people, so understanding how they are going to change and adapt to changing...
A new project from PBS's News Hour is using the reach of Internet to collect them more of them, with a webpage that asks people to share stories, observtions, and photos of the effects of...
The site "Petridish.org" shares its format with other crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter.com, which allows people to donate toward artistic projects. They've just launched...
Brett Summerell, director of science and public programs for the gardens, said all the data would be made freely available to researchers studying the biological impacts of a changing environment....
According to Thomas W. Malone, director of MIT’s Climate CoLab : "Unlike many problems where only one kind of expertise is needed, here’s a problem where many different kinds of...
Photographer Roger Ressmeyer has also established a Visions of Tomorrow Foundation to move ahead with the agenda laid out in the movie, and he and his colleagues plan to use social-media...
Citizen science and crowdsourcing projects to model and predict climate change can also be great ways to enable the public to not only acquire information, but to also take part in the research....
Each study that involved rain, snow, and temperature measurements drew those data from the U.S. Cooperative Weather Observer Program: a citizen science network. The Program is not often referred...
Climate scientists and citizens across the world are working together to track climate changes by reporting the skating conditions in backyard rinks. Scientists are hoping the project will increase...
Coinciding with the launch of the new Pavilion, Popular Science and InnoCentive announced a new Challenge with a total award value of $25,000: “Science Lesson Plan for Grades 6-8.” Scientists who...
The Climate CoLab is a novel collective intelligence system designed to help thousands of people around the world solve the “super-wicked” problem of global climate change. It combines three...
Inspired by systems like Wikipedia and Linux, the Climate CoLab seeks to harness the collective intelligence of people around the world to address climate change. The Climate CoLab is a forum...
“Wicked problems are those for which no single computational formulation of the problem is sufficient, for which different stakeholders do not even agree on what the problem really is, and for which there are no right or wrong answers, only answers that are better or worse from different points of view,” explains Thomas Malone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and founder of the Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI).
The intractability of the wicked problem is what first inspired Malone to dream up the Climate CoLab. Global climate change is a perfect example of the wicked problem. There is a deadlock of perspectives on how to address climate change, how severe it is, and whether it is even real. People with different political and economic viewpoints will answer these questions differently. Malone imagined a tool that would be able to represent these mutually contentious perspectives but guide them towards solving problems and generating strategies for addressing climate change.
Erosion – always a problem – has gotten much worse in recent years. Residents say water laps closer and closer to their homes each year. Of course, what happens here in the Maldives will make only...
There is so much evidence for global warming coming from so many sources that it can't be denied. One more of those uses data that has been crowd-sourced by a citizen science organization...
This study presents the most spatially comprehensive study of migration phenology of North American birds using a large and growing database of citizen science observations. In agreement with a...
The US Geological Survey (USGS), which runs USNPN , released the details in an announcement today: "The millionth observation was done by Lucille Tower, a citizen-scientist in...
The survey is one of the Earthwatch projects being highlighted at the organisation's annual lecture on Thursday evening in central London.One of the speakers, Dan Bebber - Earthwatch's...
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