In Michigan, a citizen science project tracking salamander migration is bringing a community together and building a dataset

Published: April 8, 2026
“The reason that this really works as a science project is a little bit of an accident of geography” - Dr. Jill Leonard

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Researchers examine the expanding use of participatory science data by state agencies

Published: May 11, 2026
“Every time somebody uploads a photo to iNaturalist or another citizen science project, it is an observation of biodiversity, but it's also an observation of how someone interacted with the natural […]

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“Science is something that we do together.” Benjamin Richards on how OceanEyes collaborates with citizen scientists to monitor deepwater fish in Hawai’i

Published: April 4, 2026
“Any individual image is going to be annotated or looked at by 15 independent volunteer citizen scientists.” — Benjamin Richards

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Scott Loarie says conservation science isn’t moving fast enough. He describes how iNaturalist is helping

Published: March 18, 2026
[…] with nature to drive global conservation. The iNaturalist app is one of the world’s largest citizen science platforms with more than 4 million users across the world today. We’ll hear from […]

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UNESCO-backed platform seeks to encourage information sharing among freshwater management citizen science projects

Published: March 9, 2026
What if a citizen science project in British Columbia that’s focused on preserving water resources could learn from citizen science projects in South Africa or Pakistan that have the same objective […]

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Abby C. King on leveraging local wisdom and science to create a thriving environment: “Our communities are the most valuable renewable resources for a healthy planet.”

Published: March 5, 2026
[…] healthier lifestyles. Dr. King is also the founder and faculty director of the Our Voice Global Citizen Science Research Initiative and Network. Dr. King shares the story and some of the lessons […]

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Milky Way Project co-creator Grace Wolf-Chase says public engagement is ‘every bit as important as excellent scientific research’

Published: February 19, 2026
[…] to scientific practice itself, not separate from it. Drawing on her experience designing and sustaining citizen science projects, she highlights one of the central design constraints that practitioners often underestimate: while […]

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‘Science policy’ Google searches spiked in 2025. What does that mean?

Published: February 18, 2026
[…] come to see civic science as a set of distinct and overlapping practices that include science communication, citizen science, science journalism, science policy, and informal science, among others. Each represents a different pathway […]

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Haley Davis shares how SeaKeepers is engaging the yachting community to support marine citizen science projects

Published: February 11, 2026
"One of those big challenges has been a misconception within the scientific community that citizen science data is just no good." — Haley Davis

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John Besley wants engagers to dig deep into the “Why” of science engagement 

Published: February 5, 2026
[…] to increase that participation. We know that involving the public in research projects, often called Citizen Science or participatory science, has many benefits for the economy and for the advancement of […]

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