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Citiizen Scientist - Ino - 01-01-2016
New Year= New Opportunities!
Did you ever think of becoming a citizen scientist.
I’ve been a citizen scientist for over 50 years. I have actually been offered employment doing this. I have received many accolades and I know I have made a difference. The institutions really appreciate the help. My original motive was just to help but it’s beginning to look like they are willing to pay!.
As a citizen scientist you will be the wave of the future. It is believed that human-machine will always be smarter than Artificial Intelligence (AI) especially with the cutting edge development of crowd sourcing science. I believe this is in it’s infancy and that citizen scientist will be huge later in the 21st Century!
If you want to see what’s available to help with go to Zooniverse, click on projects. You can do them just for fun without logging in or you can register and they’ll keep track of your hours;
https://www.zooniverse.org/
And of course I’m pushing wx spotter;
http://www.weather.gov/chs/skywarn
If you have any kids at home this is a fun and educational project for K-12;
http://scool.larc.nasa.gov/rover.html
For some reason for me Cyclone Center is actually fun and it is great practice for Hurricane season here in Hawaii, I have looked and processed so many pictures of cyclones that I’m probably near the top in observational ability;
http://www.cyclonecenter.org/#/classify
Take your time and look at the guide below and you’ll be surprised how fast you get the hang of it.
NASA has some really intriguing other opportunities, Did you know I’m actually a Martian citizen?;
http://science.nasa.gov/citizen-scientists/#2
Weather Detective is fun but you’d better have good eyesight;
http://www.weatherdetective.net.au/about/
Wikipedia has a pretty good list of citizen scientist projects;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_citizen_science_projects
With my head in the clouds this one was a natural for me;
http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/citizen-science/
I could actually list hundreds of things for citizen scientist to do but I’ll spare you and end with this;
http://www.citizensciencealliance.org/index.html
Happy New Year to all Punawebbers!
RE: Citiizen Scientist - terracore - 01-01-2016
The easiest ones are distributed-computing projects which is essentially a screen saver that crunches data packets for whoever you have signed up with. I have a 6 core CPU with a CUDA GPU unit and used to lend it out to SETI@home but it fried my main board twice. It was under warranty both times but after the second time I was just getting ready to move to Hawaii and was going to discontinue my participation due to cost of electricity anyway.
RE: Citiizen Scientist - beejee - 01-02-2016
Thanks for the info and and links Ino. Looks like a lot of fun if you can find an area that really interests you. And as an aside, I always really enjoy reading your posts about the weather, please keep it up. Happy New Year!!