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EpiCollect provides a mobile phone and web application for the generation of forms and freely hosted project websites (using Google's AppEngine) for many kinds of mobile data collection projects. Data can be collected using multiple mobile phones running either the Android Operating system or the iPhone (using the EpiCollect mobile app) and all data can be synchronised from the phones and viewed centrally via the Project website (hosted on AppEngine) or directly on the phones. +
EteRNA is a browser based game, developed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University, that engages users to solve puzzles related to the folding of RNA molecules.The project is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Similar to Foldit—created by some of the same researchers that developed EteRNA—the puzzles take advantage of human problem-solving capabilities to solve puzzles that are computationally laborious for current computer models. +
The EveryAware platform has been explicitly designed to
support subjective impressions in conjunction with sensor
data acquisition by introducing a extendable data concept.
A central server efficiently collects, analyses and visualizes
data sent from the arbitrary sources. +
EveryAware intends to integrate theoretical and practical techniques from the disciplines of environmental sensing, computer science, statistical physics and social science to collect and analyse physical measurements from sensors and associated subjective opinions of participants. Real-time analysis results are then provided to you through this website. Different case studies integrate participatory sensing with the monitoring of subjective opinions. +
Quote: Did you know that, thanks to a common little snail you can find in your garden, in the park or under a hedge, you can see evolution in your own back garden?
We know evolution is a very slow process and it's the tiny changes accumulating over a long, long time that got us here. And you can see some of those tiny steps and help our research by joining the Evolution MegaLab.
[http://www.open.ac.uk/darwin/links.php OU Darwin page] (nov 28, 2013) +
A mobile application plus a platform which enables local communities to use a smartphone to compile and share a report on forest activity around their habitat. +
Experimental tribe is a web platform for gaming and social computation. It helps researchers to realize web games/experiments and it let people join, while enjoying, the scientific research. +
EyeWire is a game where volounteers map the 3D structure of neurons. By playing EyeWire, they help map the retinal connectome and contribute to the neuroscience research conducted by Sebastian Seung's Computational Neuroscience Lab at MIT. The connectome is a map of all the connections between cells in the brain. Rather than mapping an entire brain, we’re starting with a retina. +
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Fold It is a computer game enabling volonteers to contribute to biochemistry research by resolving proteins puzzles. The game is part of an experimental research project, and is developed by the University of Washington's Center for Game Science in collaboration with the UW Department of Biochemistry. +
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Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project which invites people to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies. +
[http://geotagx.org/ GeoTag-X] is an open source platform set up by [http://www.unitar.org/unosat/ UNITAR-UNOSAT] within [http://citizencyberlab.org/ Citizen Cyberlab] to engage and educate volunteers all around the world in analysing media coming out of humanitarian crises and natural disasters. GeoTag-X aims to produce datasets that can be used in relief and recovery efforts by humanitarian and disaster response agencies, both within and outside the United Nations system.
Large quantities of media, including photos and videos, are often generated during disasters and humanitarian operations. UNITAR-UNOSAT believes this media can complement existing efforts at gathering data to summarize disaster impacts and humanitarian response. With the GeoTag-X platform, we seek to gather all the relevant media coming out of a disaster situation or humanitarian operations, and to crowdsource analysis of that media so it can be used by the international community.
GeoTag-X is built on the open source [http://pybossa.com/ PyBossa] and all code developed for GeoTag-X is made available on [https://github.com/geotagx GitHub].
GeoTag-X currently hosts 14 projects covering various disaster-related topics. Some of these were simply developed as test cases as we implemented new ideas and code, and almost all of them have been developed in collaboration with external organizations and agencies such as the [http://www.reach-initiative.org/ REACH Initiative], [http://www.fao.org/somalia/en/ UNFAO Somalia], and Yamuna’s Daughter, a project by [http://womenforsustainablecities.org/ Women for Sustainable Cities]. +
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Human Brain Cloud is a side project Kyle Gabler runs in his free time, originally created to teach myself web programming, but has become one of my favorite projects to tinker with.
As of nov. 5 2013, the system includes 612908 unique words and 7182694 connections. +
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Transcribing museum records to obtain historical biodiversity data. +
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OPAL helps people to explore, study and enjoy their local environment. Discover our surveys and regional activities. +
Help scientists recover Arctic and worldwide weather observations made by United States’ ships since the mid-19th century. These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and will improve our knowledge of past environmental conditions. Historians will use your work to track past ship movements and tell the stories of the people on board. [http://www.oldweather.org/ oldweather.org] +
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"Pheno" as in Phenology: Phenology is the study of seasonal events in habitats. As part of the Phenoclim program we follow the dates of bud-break, flowering and leaf development in the spring; color change and leaf-fall in autumn.
Ten species of trees and plants are studied in our area: downy birch, silver birch, ash, hazel, lilac, colt's foot, rowan, primrose, larch and spruce.
"Clim" as in Climate: The Alps are a climate zone of particular interest in the study of climate change since the increase in temperature in this area in the last century was 1.4 degrees as compared to 0.7 degrees worldwide.
Also, the great diversity of microclimates determined by altitude and slope aspect makes this area a particularly rich area of study. A network of Phenoclim temperature stations has been placed at key points throughout the massif. +
Planet Hunters, the latest project from the Zooniverse, is a citizen science project. Participants help us sieve through data taken by the NASA Kepler space mission. These data consist of brightness measurements, or "light curves," taken every thirty minutes for more than 150,000 stars. Users search for possible transit events - a brief dip in brightness that occurs when a planet passes in front of the star - with the goal of discovering a planet (hence the name "Planet Hunters"). The most difficult detections for Planet Hunters and for computer-based searches will be those from planets that orbit far from their star and therefore cross the star infrequently. It may also be difficult for computer algorithms to detect planets in data that has artificial offsets (which can occur with telescope pointing errors or space craft rolls). Planet Hunter participants may be better than computers at finding signals in this type of data. Because of the outstanding pattern recognition of the human brain, we hope that participants will also establish new "families" or classifications for the light curves. We will be standing by to obtain more data at telescopes to better understand the underlying physical reason for the different classifications. +
Classifying plankton from images gathered by the In Situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System. +
Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. +