List of citizen science projects

This page includes a list of citizen science projects.

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Active projects	CS type	Science field	Access
Air Quality with Biomarkers	crowdsourcing	Air pollution	http://crowdcrafting.org/app/airquality/
Bat detective	crowdsourcing	zoology	http://www.batdetective.org/
Budburst		biology	http://budburst.org/
CS4CS	participatory science	citizen science research, creativity research, human-computer interaction, learning sciences, serious gaming	http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Portal: citizen science
Celebrate Urban Birds	crowdsourcing	Ornithology	http://celebrateurbanbirds.org/
Cell Slider	crowdsourcing	health, medicine, oncology	http://www.cellslider.net/
Einstein@home	distributed intelligence	Gravitational Physics	http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
Eterna			http://eterna.cmu.edu/web/
ExCiteS forest monitoring	extreme citizen science	Anthropology, GIScience, Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites/projects/excites-projects/intelligent-maps/intelligent-maps
EyeWire	crowdsourcing	Neurology	http://eyewire.org/
Fold It	distributed intelligence	Biochemistry	http://fold.it/portal/
Galaxy Zoo	crowdsourcing	Astronomy	http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
GeoTag-X	crowdsourcing	Disaster risk reduction, Environmental sciences, GIS	http://geotagx.org/
Notes from Nature	crowdsourcing	biological classification, biology, taxonomy	http://www.notesfromnature.org/
Old weather	distributed intelligence		http://www.oldweather.org/
Planet Hunters		astronomy, astrophyics	http://www.planethunters.org/
ReCaptcha	crowdsourcing		http://www.google.com/recaptcha
Space Warps		astronomy, astrophysics	http://spacewarps.org/
Test4Theory		Particle Physics	http://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/test4theory
The Milky Way Project		astronomy, astrophysics	http://www.milkywayproject.org/
Transcribe Bentham	crowdsourcing	Literature	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project
WhaleFM		Oceanography	http://whale.fm/
Worm Watch Lab		biology, genetics, medicine, neuroscience	http://www.wormwatchlab.org/

Retired projects	CS type	Science field	Access
ARL crowd sourcing	crowdsourcing
Andromeda Project	distributed intelligence	astronomy, astrophysics	https://www.zooniverse.org/project/andromedaproject
Citizen science project test	crowdsourcing	cognitive science, neuroscience
ESP game	crowdsourcing		http://www.espgame.org/
Evolution MegaLab	crowdsourcing		http://evolutionmegalab.org
Human Brain Cloud	distributed intelligence		http://www.humanbraincloud.com/
Phénoclim	crowdsourcing		http://www.creamontblanc.org/fr/phenoclim/presentation/
Plankton Portal	crowdsourcing	biology, biological oceanography, planktology, climatology	http://www.planktonportal.org/
Solar Stormwatch		astronomy, astrophyics	http://www.solarstormwatch.com/
WideNoise	participatory science		http://cs.everyaware.eu/event/widenoise

Uncompleted page:

ARL crowd sourcing, Air Quality with Biomarkers, Budburst, CS4CS, Celebrate Urban Birds, Cell Slider, ESP game, Einstein@home, Eterna, Evolution MegaLab, ExCiteS forest monitoring, EyeWire, Fold It, Notes from Nature, Phénoclim, Planet Hunters, Plankton Portal, ReCaptcha, Space Warps, Test4Theory, The Milky Way Project, Transcribe Bentham, WhaleFM, Worm Watch Lab

Completed page

Andromeda Project, Bat detective, Citizen science project test, Galaxy Zoo, Old weather

Software and infrastructure used by projects

	CS Software used	CD Infrastructure
ARL crowd sourcing		Amazon mechanical turk
Air Quality with Biomarkers	Pybossa	Crowdcrafting
Andromeda Project		Zooniverse
Bat detective	CartoDB	Zooniverse
Budburst
CS4CS	MediaWiki software Semantic Forms extension
Celebrate Urban Birds		Cornell Lab citizen science technology
Cell Slider		Zooniverse
Citizen science project test
ESP game	Citizen science custom software
Einstein@home	BOINC client software BOINC server software	BOINC
Eterna
Evolution MegaLab
ExCiteS forest monitoring	Sapelli Suite	ExCiteS
EyeWire
Fold It	Citizen science custom software
Galaxy Zoo		Zooniverse
GeoTag-X	Pybossa
Human Brain Cloud	Citizen science custom software
Notes from Nature
Old weather		Zooniverse
Phénoclim	Citizen science custom software
Planet Hunters		Zooniverse
Plankton Portal		Zooniverse
ReCaptcha
Solar Stormwatch		Zooniverse
Space Warps
Test4Theory		BOINC
The Milky Way Project		Zooniverse
Transcribe Bentham	MediaWiki software
WhaleFM		Zooniverse
WideNoise	EveryAware Platform	Everyaware
Worm Watch Lab		Zooniverse