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Citizen Science Award 2023

The Citizen Science Award 2023, organized by OeAD, is currently taking place in Austria from April 1st to July 31st. Those who participate in one of the eight projects, will have the chance to win and be part of the Young Science Conference in October 2023. We are proud to announce that two of our project partners belong to the ...

Thursday, 04 May 2023

Celebrate, Communicate, Co-create - Australia's great Citizen Science Conference 2021

Agnes SPOTTERON

Citizen Science Apps

Citizen Science is leading to remarkable developments worldwide, and in Australia in particular. Between bushfires and a global pandemic, and being a country that faces the effects of climate change on a large scale, it has seen an influx in citizen-driven science projects in recent times, uniting people to achieve a common goal. This October, the ...

Monday, 18 October 2021

Slip of Evidence - a new Citizen Science App on the SPOTTERON Platform to explore soil health

Dominik | SPOTTERON

Design

A healthy soil ecosystem is essential for sustainable food production and plays a significant role in maintaining biodiversity. However, there is not yet a good understanding of which soil attributes are most important. Does a healthy, productive soil have high biological diversity, or is a good soil structure more important? 'Slip of Evidence' aims to get to the bottom of these questions.

Monday, 29 March 2021

Introducing the apps: The Tea Bag Index

Agnes SPOTTERON

Citizen Science Apps

In the Tea Bag Index Citizen Science App, everything is about soil. Various observation categories are ready to participate in, from easy soil classification and testing to the well-known method of burying and weighting teabags to measure the decay rate of plants. Citizen Scientists are welcome to participate worldwide and contribute to improving climate models and soil research.

Thursday, 17 October 2019

Citizen Science App Release: Tea Bag Index on SPOTTERON

SPOTTERON

Citizen Science Apps

A warm welcome to the new released Tea Bag Index Citizen Science app, now running on the SPOTTERON platform! We are especially happy to have this well known Citizen Science research project about soil and the global carbon cycle joining our CitSci network of projects by partner across Europe and beyond.The first spots by schools have already been contributed and the the first teabags have been burried to observe the decay rate of plant material on the locations.

Wednesday, 05 June 2019