If you live in bush areas of eastern or south-eastern Australia you may want to get involved in a citizen science koala spotting project: #Koalas#environment#CitizenScience
https://www.seti.org/keeping-eye-comet-a3-next-naked-eye-comet-candidate
In early 2023, a new comet took stargazers by surprise. Called Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinan-Atlas), this icy visitor was discovered by two separate observatories in South Africa and China. Comet A3 had scientists and amateurs alike wondering if it would be the next naked-eye comet to light our skies. As 2024 unfolds, we eagerly anticipate whether Comet A3 will deliver the breathtaking celestial display we have all been hoping for!
#PPOD: The JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno captured this view of Jupiter’s moon Io — with the first-ever image of its south polar region — during the spacecraft’s 60th flyby of Jupiter on April 9, 2024, revealing mountains and lava lakes. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing: Gerald Eichstädt/Thomas Thomopoulos
Science type field researchers, I’m after a good quality wildlife/trail camera with excellent night video/photo abilities and reasonable battery life. Ideally suited to Australian conditions.
It will be situated in a high rainfall area, with ambient temperature ranges of 5ºC to 45ºC depending on time of year.
My current cheapy ali-express one often decides it isn’t going to record anything.
Given how crap web searching is these days, I figured I’d get better recommendations from people who actually use these things professionally.
Ok, peoples. It's that time of year again. I'm going to need two volunteers. I know most of you already do flutracking but there must be two (Australian/NZ) stragglers among you?
It is - and I'm not exaggerating - thirty seconds of your time on a Monday morning. And you'll be doing science!
I have taken part in the British Trust for Ornitholgy (BTO) Garden Birdwatch weekly bird counts for many years.
It's one of the biggest citizen science projects in the UK. It's easy to do and an invaluable resource for climate and environmental scientists.
This year, there will be a nova, before or by September, as bright as the North Star.
After peak brightness it will remain bright enough, for several days, to observe with binoculars.
You can help research scientists with observational details.
#CitizenScience opportunity: photos of unusual, brightly colored sunsets in the wake of major volcanic eruptions in the recent past can be used to extract color ratios that indicate #aerosol loading of the #stratosphere. In turn, that can help researchers constrain the ash "yield" of eruptions and improve atmospheric models.
If you're interested in contributing, DM me and I will put you in touch with the research team.
The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) announced on Thursday, June 29, 2023, that a nova eruption is expected from a binary star system called T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) sometime between February and September of 2024. Citizen astronomers can contribute to the study of this event by participating in the Unistellar Cosmic Cataclysm observing program, and be the first to see this rare explosion.
Möchtest Du mit Deinen Beobachtungen zusätzlich noch andere wissenschaftliche Projekte unterstützen (neben unserer eigenen Forschung)? Dann schau' Dich mal auf unserer Webseite um, dort haben wir die laufenden #CitizenScience-Projekte beschrieben.
We make the Agroecology Map data available in GeoJSON format so that you can use it in your analyses. You can now export all data and use it under the Creative Commons 4.0 (BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.
See how easy it is to use the Agroecology Map data in the QGIS tool
Automatic weather stations cannot detect damage in real time. The National Weather Service in Austria therefore designed a two way communication system to e.g. disseminate warnings about hail and then receive feedback in real time about how much hail fell so far.
This allows a real time feedback loop during warning periods.
The Crowd and the Cosmos: Adventures in the Zooniverse by Chris Lintott, 2019
Where once astronomers sat at the controls of giant telescopes in remote locations, praying for clear skies, now they have no need to budge from their desks, as data arrives in their inbox. And what they receive is overwhelming; projects now being built provide more data in a few nights than in the whole of humanity's history of observing the Universe.
🦌#LostBones#FossilFriday 🦌🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 You can still find remnants of elk (Cervus canadensis) in Minnesota. They were common, in the thousands, up until the 1800s.
The Ojibwe called them omashkooz, and the Dakota called them heȟáka.
This gorgeous antler specimen was found near Motley, Minnesota, in 1972 and has been housed for the past 50 years at SCSU in St. Cloud.