SPOTTERON

After running on the SPOTTERON platform since september 2016, Anslagstavlan (which even had a SPOTTERON designed logo), has ended and will therefore also leave our platform. We want to commemorate the project a little with this entry in our blog.

From 3rd to 5th of June 2018, the ECSA Conference 2018 and the general assembly of the European Citizen Science Association takes place in Geneva, Switzerland. As members of ECSA and platform for Citizen Science Apps we for sure take part during the whole time.

We released the SPOTTERON platform update 2.1.4. Find out more about the update, the new infopanel layout and how infopanels can support learning by using Citizen Science Apps in our #CitSci Blog!

Today we released the SPOTTERON platform update 2.1.4 for all Android and iOS apps and interactive maps. 

During the "Long Night of Research" (Lange Nacht der Forschung) in Vienna Austria at the Museum of Natural History (NHM) we met with Irmgard Greilhuber from the Citizen Science project Mycodata by the Austrian Mycological Society ÖMG. Irmgard is presenting the project and how Citizen Scientists can participate by submitting observations of mushrooms and fungi.

We just published the 1st episode of our new web video series "Let's meet Citizen Science!" at our CitizenScience Blog - Thomas Hübner from ZAMG introduces the CitSci project "Nature's Calendar" during the "Long Night of Research" in the Museum of Natural History NHM Vienna - watch the video here!

We talked to Thomas Hübner from the Central Station for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) during the "Long Night of Research" in the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, Austria about the new phenology Citizen Science project "Nature's Calendar" about the the 10 phenological seasons in the project and what Citizen Scientists can observe in the Citizen Science App for Android and IOS.

Not every citizen science project has the need for own custom smartphone apps. Starting with April 2018, we offer a light-weight SPOTTERON package for Citizen Science projects, which provides an innovative web tool for desktop browsers..

New Citizen Science video in our Citizen Science Blog: We met Simon Etter from the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland from the project Crowdwater about hydrology citizen science during his stay for presenting the project on the European Geosciences Union (EGU) conference in Vienna!

Since the European Geosciences Union EGU holds its anual meeting in Vienna, Austria, we took the opportunity to catch up with Crowdwater, a Citizen Science project about hydrology and water levels of rivers, soil moisture and stream spotting, running on the SPOTTERON Citizen Science platform.