#citizen-science — Public Fediverse posts

Kunnersdorf Ortsteil Liebstein
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Kunnersdorf
Autor: Bruno Häcker
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/1623

#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

🔭 NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has launched, and Zooniverse is getting ready for its data. Galaxy Zoo is building projects on galaxy shapes and spectra; Planet Hunters is exploring how Roman data could feed exoplanet searches. First science data are expected in 2027 — with new tasks for volunteers.

https://daily.zooniverse.org/2026/08/31/roman-is-on-its-way-zooniverse-is-getting-ready/

📅 31 Aug 2026
#CitizenScience #DataScience #NASA #Astronomy

Kartierung Friedhof Kölnstraße Düren

https://www.schotterschreck.de/2026/09/04/kartierung-friedhof-dueren/

Es gibt ein inhaltliches Update zu unserem in Kooperation mit dem @BfN entstandenen Beitrag:

📰 Daten teilen oder sammeln 📰

💚 Unsere Übersicht zu Repositorien und Sammlungen umfasst jetzt auch #Mitmachportale.

Wer selbst Umweltdaten erheben möchte, findet dort Angebote aus #CitizenScience und passende Apps. Auch die Entscheidungshilfe wurde erweitert und unterstützt bei der Suche nach einem geeigneten Ort für Daten, Objekte oder die eigene Mitarbeit.

🔎 https://umwelt.info/de/artikel/platz-für-Ihre-Daten&variant=102

Blick von der Sandgrube Ebersbach
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Ebersbach
Autor: Bruno Häcker
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/1778

#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

Buchgarten bei Tränke
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen,
Autor: Bruno Häcker
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/1847
Wo genau wurde dieses Foto aufgenommen? Helfen Sie mit Ihrem Wissen!
#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

🔭 Open call for amateur astronomers: the ER UMa-type dwarf nova Gaia24aeg is in superoutburst.

A Kyiv–Wrocław–Warsaw team observed it for 3.4 hours on 9 Aug with a 0.7 m telescope and measured superhumps with a period of 0.077 d (~111 min) and an amplitude of 0.15 mag. You can upload your own photometry to BHTOM, the EU-funded open-source platform that processes it automatically.

ATel #17962, 12 Aug 2026:
https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17962

#CitizenScience #Astronomy #Space

Quolsdorfer Teichgebiet (Ganztagsexkursion nach Tränke/Buchgarten)
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen,
Autor: Bruno Häcker
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/1845
Wo genau wurde dieses Foto aufgenommen? Helfen Sie mit Ihrem Wissen!
#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

Höschen als Maß für die #Bodengesundheit: In einem #CitizenScience-Projekt der Uni Zürich vergruben 1.000 Schweizer Baumwollslips im Garten – nach 60 Tagen sind sie dort zu 58% zersetzt, auf Rasenflächen dagegen nur zu 40%. Wie der „Unterhosen-Index" im Detail funktioniert, … 👉 https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3569.php

#Nepal #CitizenScience
#Humanitarian

Give your time to Nepal.

Analyse images from the Nepal floods to assist aid workers.

At the moment they're out of images to process but there will be more to do on Wednesday.

"Hello Zooniverse Planetary Response Network projects community,

To get started right away, click here: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/alicemead/planetary-response-network-nepal-flash-flooding-2026/classify/workflow/32649

On 26 August 2026, a major flash flood struck Rasuwa District in northern Nepal, causing severe damage to local infrastructure and roads. Rescue and recovery groups on the ground urgently need accurate maps so they can get help where it's needed most.

Currently, aid agencies in the Nepal are working to get support to those who need it the most. We are providing the data to the International Charter of Space and Major Disasters, who will use it to inform humanitarian organisations on the ground.

This project aims to identify regions of flooding and road blockages in the affected regions of Nepal. You will be shown before and after images, and asked to detect signs of these attributes. The images for this project have been provided to us by Planet Labs, using 3-metre resolution data.

When classifying, please just do your best, and remember that we ask multiple people to examine each image, and we will gather consensus from the crowd. Even if you are uncertain, your best judgment is very valuable!

We need lots of support on the project to classify the data as soon as we can, to ensure data reaches humanitarian organisations as soon as possible. If you can help by making classifications, please click https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/alicemead/planetary-response-network-nepal-flash-flooding-2026/classify/workflow/32649.

As always, please remember to take breaks whenever you need or want to. If you are in distress and need or want support, here is a list of international mental health support hotlines and international crisis support hotlines so you can get support wherever you are in the world. https://findahelpline.com/

Thank you,
The Planetary Response Network team"

☄️ The Global Meteor Network has confirmed the 26-Bootids (TSB#571). Amateur-run cameras recorded a distinct radiant concentration on 3–4 March 2026 at RA 217°, dec +25°, geocentric velocity 49.5 km/s. It is a long-period comet type stream and the case study meets the criteria for IAU-MDC established status. Based on GMN data from 2025 and 2026. (31 Aug 2026)

#CitizenScience #Astronomy #Science #Space
https://www.emeteornews.net/2026/08/31/26-bootids-tsb571-confirmed/

☄️ Comet 220P/McNaught refuses to fade. After a June outburst (~8,000× brightening) came another on 5 Aug, roughly 600×, up to mag 7. It's holding near mag 9 and amateurs and smart telescopes are tracking it in the dawn sky. Dan Bartlett's montage shows the blue-green coma swelling then contracting. Closest to Earth 12 Oct (1.043 au).

📅 25 Aug 2026
🔗 https://www.universetoday.com/articles/comet-220p-mcnaught-puts-on-an-encore-performance

#CitizenScience #Astronomy #Space #Science

🌠 An all-sky composite from four meteor cameras at Valašské Meziříčí Observatory (CEMeNt network, Czechia) caught 1,706 meteors on the night of 12–13 Aug. Most are Perseids – their trails converge on a single radiant in Perseus. Fainter showers show up too: kappa Cygnids and the diffuse antihelion source. Amateur camera networks delivering hard data.

📅 22 Aug 2026
🔗 https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260822.html

#Bolidozor #CitizenScience #Astronomy #Space

🌒 The Czech Astronomical Society is collecting reader images of the 12 August 2026 solar eclipse. Over Czechia up to 88 % of the solar disc was covered and the Sun set while still deeply eclipsed; totality crossed parts of Iceland and Spain. Observers can still add their own photos to the gallery.

📅 12 Aug 2026
🔗 https://www.astro.cz/clanky/multimedia/fotogalerie-mimoradne-vecerni-zatmeni-slunce-12-8-2026.html

#CitizenScience #Astronomy #Astronomie #Space

🔭 HOYS lightcurve of the week 398: the young star V1787Ori, just south of the Orion Nebula in the L1641N field. Amateur V, R and I-band data from last winter. The star is very red, hence the large offsets between filters. Real variability shows on both long and short timescales – the apparent “noise” is correlated across filters, so it is genuine.

📅 26 Aug 2026
🔗 https://hoys.space/lightcurve-of-the-week-398/

#CitizenScience #Astronomy #DataScience #Space

Backyard radio astronomy: writing in IEEE Spectrum, David Schneider shows how an RTL-SDR dongle, an LNA and a home-built horn antenna were enough to measure the Doppler shift of the 1420 MHz hydrogen line and plot the Milky Way's rotation curve — the key evidence for dark matter. His results match professional measurements.

📅 17 Aug 2026
🔗 https://www.rtl-sdr.com/detecting-dark-matters-mark-with-an-rtl-sdr-based-diy-radio-telescope/

#RadioAstronomy #CitizenScience #Astronomy #Science

The CARMELo network has published its July 2026 report. Eighteen amateur SDR receivers in Italy, Spain, the UK, Switzerland and the USA track meteor echoes off France's GRAVES radar (143.050 MHz). New this time: an in-house Python algorithm computing the Radio Zenithal Hourly Rate. A single receiver costs about €210 to build.

📅 24 Aug 2026
🔗 https://www.emeteornews.net/2026/08/24/july-2026-carmelo-report/

#RadioAstronomy #CitizenScience #Bolidozor #Astronomy #Space

🌟 HOYS Citizen Science (Univ. of Kent) shows the light curve of young star V557Mon near the Rosette Nebula. In the 2024–25 winter season it brightened by ~4 mag — an EXor-type outburst. Data come from amateur astronomers; outside outburst it sits at ~19.5 mag in R.

📅 7 Aug 2026
🔗 https://hoys.space/lightcurve-of-the-week-395/

#CitizenScience #Astronomy #Astronomie #Science

🔭 Which field do amateur astronomers image most? In the HOYS citizen-science archive (Univ. of Kent) the Orion Nebula (M42) leads with almost 23,800 images — some 7,200 of them in the V band. Volunteer photometry powers the hunt for variable young stars. Rule: one stacked image per user, target, filter and night.
📅 19 Aug 2026
🔗 https://hoys.space/lightcurve-of-the-week-397/
#CitizenScience #Astronomy #DataScience

Umgebindehaus mit Obstbäumen, Hauptstraße, Lausche im Hintergrund
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Waltersdorf, Großschönau
Autor: Alfred Hartig, Ingeborg Paul
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/1906

#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

This month's Journey Plotter update:
New is the 1916-1919 #WW1 journey of HMS Whitby Abbey; Mediterranean.

The journey of USS Concord (PG-3) was amended with the years 1899-1900; Asiatic Station.
Her journey now covers 1897 to 1900 and 1907 to 1909.

And USS Yorktown (PG-1) was amended with the years 1912-1913; North, Central and South American waters.
Her journey now covers 1889 to 1913, though there are some gaps when she was decommissioned.

#NavalHistory #CitizenScience #RoyalNavy #USNavy

Reflections from State of the Map 2025 (the OpenStreetMap conference). Re-engaging with Sotmafter 15 years, and thinking what changed, and what are the persistant issues that stay around. #OpenStreetMap #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #Crowdsourcing

https://povesham.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/state-of-the-map-2026-openstreetmap-conference/

Flusslauf der Schöps bei Boxberg
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Boxberg/O.L.
Autor: Hans-Werner Otto
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/2956

#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

Gendered #citizenscience infrastructures: #participation, recognition, and ecological labour in UK biodiversity monitoring
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2026.1911868/full By Artemis Skarlatidou et al. "Scoping of 165 active ecological citizen science projects across the United Kingdom with semi-structured interviews with 14 women"

verschneite Winterlandschaft mit Sonnenuntergang in der Nähe des Kalkwerkes Ludwigsdorf
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Ludwigsdorf
Autor: Bruno Häcker
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/2793

#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

So, growing up in the country, I would track rabbits... Sometimes catching them, but always releasing them. To me, it was all about using my senses and being in touch with nature, and being still... Traits I still utilize to this day...

#SolarPunkSunday #SpendTimeOutdoors #SpendTimeInNature #ListenToNature #CitizenScience #ObservingNature

2026-08-27 21:07:38 M6.0 Eastern Gulf of Aden

#earthquake #seismology #geology #raspberryshake #raspberrypi #nature #citizenscience

New river water quality observation added for Ouseburn at Crawford's Bridge, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Temperature : 16.5 °C
Conductivity : 897 μS/cm
Turbidity : 12 NTU
Phosphates : 1.43 mg/l
Nitrates : 0.5 mg/l
Nitrites : 0.15 mg/l
Ammonia : 1 mg/l
Clarity : clear
Hue : clear

Part of the Tyne Rivers Trust 'Adopt a Stream' project for the Tyne Catchment Partnership.

#citizenscience #riverwaterqualit

"A thousand people voluntarily buried their cotton underpants for two months—not to keep the Underpants Gnomes from stealing them, but as part of a citizen science project to map out soil health in 25 countries around the world. The results of this unique experiment were reported in a new paper published in the journal Plants People Planet."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/why-did-1000-swiss-citizens-bury-their-underpants/

#Research #Soil #Environment #CitizenScience