Expert Michelle Nichols investigates the long history of citizen science projects and highlights ways that you can provide valuable data for art, history, and science research.
Amateur participation in science research goes back more than 100 years, but the capabilities of the Internet have seen an explosion in ways that ordinary people – a.k.a. citizens – can get involved – most often with little to no prior knowledge in these fields.
Michelle Nichols will investigate the long history of citizen science projects and highlight ways that you can provide valuable data for art, history, and science research. We’ll even try our collective hand at various various current projects. Come with your curiosity and enthusiasm and leave with ways to be a true citizen scientist.
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