Unprecedented 60% return in 48 hours for Atrazine testing in watershed

A "fantastic" 60% return of water samples in 48 hours achieved by Citizen Scientists testing for the herbicide Atrazine in the Omaha River watershed in Nebraska. The project was so successful, scientists would like to make this an annual event. According to the project organizers "The traditional approach would involve small groups of highly trained scientists, small sample sizes, lots of analytical equipment and a long turn-around time ... Our approach involves citizen scientists, very large sample sizes, easy to use equipment and an extremely short turn-around time."

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Join the 6th worldwide GLOBE at Night 2011 campaign: Feb. 21 - March 6

Here's an easy, fast, and imporant way you can help scientists track the extent of "light pollution" which diminishes the amount of dark skies in our world and impacts many animal species (including humans!)--http://www.globeatnight.org/

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Tree Fight! Citizen Scientists use innovative method to combat bark beetles

Tree Fight is responding to climate changes by using pheromones to fight infestations of pinebark beetles, which are decimating the important whitebark pines in the northern Rockies. Perhaps this simple, low-cost method could be effective in other regions facing this destruction of their pine forests?

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Good Resource for Urban Citizen Scientists

Where are The Lost Lizards of Los Angeles? The Metropolitan Field Guide is a great resource to help you find and protect species in urban/suburban landscapes.

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Be a "Citizen Donor" - Help to advance science projects you like

The SciFlies Network ™ is creating a system for "citizen donors" to link up with scientists and a research projects and make a direct donation to that scientist's work. This is an example of "crowdfunding" which can be very effective. This allows donors to fund projects that have very specific special meaning for them, providing more direct connection to the projects and their results. Here is more information about  this timely service, given the difficulty of finding funding in today's economic climate.