In a growing world of technology and science, it is necessary to meet that evolution. Through the use of citizen science and crowdsourcing, the federal government engages the American public in advancing science, technology, and innovation.
What is CitizenScience.gov?
CitizenScience's mission is in "helping federal agencies accelerate innovation through public participation." The site serves to accelerate the use of crowdsourcing and citizen science. Crowdsourcing is when organizations submit "an open call for voluntary assistance from a large group of individuals for online, distributed problem solving. Citizen science is when the "public participates voluntarily in the scientific process, addressing real-world problems in ways that may include formulating research questions, conducting scientific experiments, collecting and analyzing data, interpreting results, making new discoveries, developing technologies and applications, and solving complex problems." Through these actions, the American public can help address societal needs and advance science.
As a result of the Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Act of 2016, the CitizenScience.gov site has three components:
- a catalog of federally supported citizen science projects
- a toolkit to assist federal practitioners with designing and maintaining their projects
- a gateway to a community of hundreds of citizen science practitioners and coordinators
- Are we alone in the universe?
- Searches for evidence of civilizations in the Galaxy by classifying signals by matching them to common classes of radio frequency interference
- Sponsored by NASA
- BeachCOMBERS
- Monthly surveys of California beaches from Santa Cruz to San Diego, and collect information on carcass and oil deposition
- Sponsored by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
- National Groundwater Resource Survey
- Collection of hydrogeologic data from across the United States and territories
- Sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Machine Learning to Code Work-Related Injury Narratives - 2020
- Collection of free-text injury narratives in a variety of data-sources that are categorized into a coding system that identifies the cause of the injury
- Sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- A New Mobile Device Application Enhances Fisherman Reporting of Alaska Groundfish Tag Recovery
- Tagging over 430,000 groundfish in Alaska and West Coast waters since 1972 to accomplish data recovery and to date
- Sponsored by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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