🚢🌊 New paper in Environmental DNA!
We used eDNA + citizen science to reveal hidden fish biodiversity in Corsican ports.
🌱 73 taxa
🔥 Post-ECE rise in diversity
📍 Urban ports = key eco-sentinels!
Read here 👉 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/edn3.70142
#eDNA #CitizenScience #MarineEcology
We're excited to have a joint job opening in the Citizen Science Lab and Faculty of Governance and Public Affairs at Leiden University. Do you have experience with #CitizenScience and #PublicEngagement approaches, and are you passionate about the #EnergyTransition? Then this one could be for you!
Direct applications only via: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2025-nl/q3/15885-postdoctoral-researcher-in-citizen-science--societal-engagement-for-an-inclusive-energy-transition
Pflanzen vor einem Flugzeug am Flughafen
Ort: Russland,
Autor: Wolfgang Breitkopf
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/2095
Wo genau wurde dieses Foto aufgenommen? Helfen Sie mit Ihrem Wissen!
#CitizenScience #landscape #photography
Iguanas from Above is a popular online #CitizenScience project based at #UniLeipzig. Nearly 14,000 volunteers have contributed over 1.3 million inputs to help count endangered Galápagos marine iguanas. They contributed to the preservation of this unique lizard species. Every image of the iguana colonies captured by drones was reviewed by at least 20 independent participants. This project expands the role of Citizen Scientists, provides meaningful support for conservation:
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetail/artikel/galapagos-meerechsen-zaehlen-fuer-die-wissenschaft-2025-07-25
„Iguanas from Above“ heißt ein erfolgreiches Citizen-Science-Projekt der #UniLeipzig: Knapp 14.000 Freiwillige haben an einer Online-Zählung der vom Aussterben bedrohten #Galápagos-Meerechse teilgenommen und so zum Erhalt der Art beigetragen. Jedes mit Drohnen aufgenommene Luftbild wurde von mindestens 20 unabhängigen Personen überprüft. Das erweitert die Rolle der #CitizenScience und ist eine Entlastung für Forschende:
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/newsdetail/artikel/galapagos-meerechsen-zaehlen-fuer-die-wissenschaft-2025-07-25
Fotos: Iguanas from Above/Dr.Amy MacLeod
Coincidentally, on Tuesday night I had the good fortune to meet Joseph Knight. Joseph was down visiting Christchurch for the first time. He is a 17-year old from Auckland who is already a legendary and prolific observer and identifier on #iNaturalist. Joseph has a growing special interest in the cryptic insects eating native NZ plants, and he’s quickly becoming NZ’s mealy bug expert, among other things.
When I was talking to the Banks Peninsula community last night about iNaturalist, I took the time to celebrate the efforts of all the experts that volunteer their time to identify everyone’s uploaded photos and sounds. I hadn’t realised until that moment that Joseph is in the top 20 identifiers for Banks Peninsula observations, as is Saryu, another skilled Auckland teenager (iNat user name invertebratist).
I love how the new generation of naturalists are engaged with iNaturalist and are using it to both to grow their skills and contribute to the community.
https://inaturalist.nz/people/joknight_nz
#iNaturalist #iNaturalistNZ #nz #CitizenScience #NaturalHistory
Riesengebirge
Ort: Polen, Woiwodschaft Niederschlesien, Petersdorf
Autor: Wolfgang Breitkopf
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/1414
One of the recent iNaturalist highlights from Banks Peninsula is this little moth, that Mel Whiting photographed in the Port Hills above Taylor’s Mistake at the end of May. It was photographed visiting a yellow flower of the native oxalis, *Oxalis exilis*. They weren’t sure what it was and uploaded it to iNat to find out.
Thanks to the identifications and comments by NZ moth experts Neville Hudson and Robert Hoare, it turns out to be a rare, and still undescribed, endemic NZ moth species, currently only known as *Scythris* “stripe”.
Robert commented “Yes, amazing discovery! I think maybe only the 4th ever seen.”
Two of those four observations were made on #iNaturalist, the other being a moth I found in the Port Hills above near the Sign of the Kiwi back in May 2022.
Every observation counts, especially for rarely seen species like these species that we know so little about.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/285550497
#Lepidoptera #mothodon #nz #CitizenScience #RareSpecies #iNaturalistNZ
Last night I was in Little River talking to the Banks Peninsula community about #iNaturalist. We're now approaching 4,000 observers, almost 184,000 observations, and almost 3,700 identfiers for the Port Hills/Banks Peninsula area. There is already so much to celebrate and the observations keep coming every day.
I'm appreciative of all the folk that came out to listen, and who asked lots of excellent questions. I tip my hat to the Living Streams Community Nursery (a Little River based native plant nursery) that organised the evening, and to the Little River Inn that hosted us. Check out the excellent blackboard that the Inn staff put out by the door. 😀
https://inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=74374&subview=map&verifiable=any
A nap ízeltlábúja a bogarak hólyaghúzófélék családjába tartozó óriásnünüke - Meloe cicatricosus https://www.izeltlabuak.hu/faj/oriasnunuke/talalatok #óriásnünüke #MeloeCicatricosus #hólyaghúzófélék #Meloidae #bogarak #Coleoptera #CitizenScience #KözösségiTudomány
Ein paar neue Beiträge auf https://codefor.de/blog - unter anderem auch endlich noch die Out in the #Open Rückblicke für April, Mai und Juni
#OpenData #OpenSource #LinkedOpenData #LinkedData #Transparenz #Digitalisierung #Karten #Civic #CivicApps #Verwaltungsdigitalisierung #DigitaleSouveränität #Klima #Energie #Mobilität #citizenscience #Verantwortungsdiffusion #Zukunftsschutzgebiet #Solarpunk
My latest article for @forbes is about two new studies on urban light pollution (and one is a citizen science project)
Our 1st #MiniForest #CitizenScience event was a rousing success! We trained a core group of volunteers to measure parameters & track overall forest health & growth using protocols developed by the #NetworkOfNature & #GreenCommunitiesCanada. After this training session, the group will be able to track tree and shrub growth, soil health, flood management, biodiversity, and human interactions. #yyc
https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/mini_forest_citizen_science_training_day
Our 1st #MiniForest #CitizenScience event was a rousing success! We trained a core group of volunteers to measure parameters & track overall forest health & growth using protocols developed by the #NetworkOfNature & @greencommunities.bsky.social! #yyc
www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/mini_forest_...
Mini Forest Citizen Science Tr...
If you're based in the UK there's still time to take part in Big Butterfly Count 2025: https://bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org #conservation #bigbutterflycount #citizenscience
"Citizen science in libraries worldwide: A systematic review" https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006251342825 [closed access 🙄]
#CitizenScience #libraries
Wiese mit Obstbäumen, Fällarbeiten, Graben mit Brücke, Schloss Ullersdorf
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Ullersdorf, Waldhufen
Autor: Jürgen Starovsky
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/2203
...and this is approximately what it sounded like, too
#geology #nature #citizenscience #kamchatka #earthquake #raspberrypi #raspberryshake #sonification
2025-07-20 06:49:02 M7.4 off the east coast of Kamchatka
USGS: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000qdyl/executive
#geology #nature #citizenscience #kamchatka #earthquake #raspberrypi #raspberryshake
Our Citizen Science team is taking root!🌱
Made up of volunteers, ecology experts & #TreeEquity Ambassadors, our #CitizenScience program seeks to track the overall forest health & growth of our #MiniForests as well as engage the broader community around biodiversity and the important role of trees!
You can learn more about out #CitizenScience initiative on our blog! #yyc https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/mini_forest_citizen_science_training_day
