VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. Do important science work from home on your computer.

[GreenStormCloud]

https://www.zooniverse.org/

Interpreting complex patterns is something that the human brain excels at but computers are still very poor at. After a few minutes tutorial you can:

SPACE

Classify Galaxies. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope archive provides hundreds of thousands of galaxy images

Explore the surface of the moon. We hope to study the lunar surface in unprecedented detail.

Study the Sun’s weather. Explore interactive diagrams to learn about the Sun and the spacecraft monitoring it.

Find new planets around other stars. Lightcurve changes from the Kepler spacecraft can indicate transiting planets.

Find new stars being born. We're asking you to help us find and draw circles on infrared image data from the Spitzer Space Telescope.

Explore Mars. Planetary scientists need your help to discover what the weather is like on Mars.

Find Gravitational lenses. Imagine a galaxy, behind another galaxy. Think you won't see it? Think again.

HELP DOCUMENT CLIMATE CHANGE

Input data from old ship’s logs of weather conditions. Help scientists recover Arctic and worldwide weather observations made by US Navy and Coast Guard ships

Classify over 30 years of tropical cyclone data. Analyze old infrared photos of cyclonic clouds to determine patterns of storms.

HUMANITES

Study the lives of ancient Greeks. The data gathered by Ancient Lives helps scholars study the Oxyrhynchus collection.

NATURE

Whales. You can help marine researchers understand what whales are saying

Explore the ocean floor. The HabCam team and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution need your help

Hot on the trail of bats. Help scientists characterize bat calls recorded by citizen scientists.

Go wild in the Serengeti! We need your help to classify all the different animals caught in millions of camera trap images.

Make museum records available. Transcribe museum records to take notes from nature, contribute to science.

BIOLOGY

Analyze real life cancer data. You can help scientists from the world's largest cancer research institution find cures for cancer.

Track genetic mysteries. We can better understand how our genes work by spotting the worms laying eggs.

New fields of inquiry are being frequently added. It started out about a year ago as a volunteer project to record old ship's weather logs for climate study and has grown from there. Personally, I am enjoying classifying galaxies and analyzing tropical cyclones, and learning as I do it, and doing real scientific work too.

Go to: https://www.zooniverse.org/

[Ian David]

1. Is there a project that involves looking at porn? Because I've gotten really good at that. n/t

[tularetom]

2. I'm bookmarking this

I'm leaving Thursday for a fishing trip to northern Vancouver Island, Canada, my first actual vacation since 2008. I'll be back after Labor Day and I want to check this out. Looks like an opportunity to accomplish something worthwhile while sitting on my ass at my puter.

Thanks for posting this.

[shraby]

3. Looks like it would be interesting to the max.

[enlightenment]

4. This is my favorite place on the Internet

I participate in everything except the ones that require sound. Classifying galaxies is fun, the worm one is like a video game, and Snapshot Serengeti has been totally cool - I'm sorry that one probably won't make another season. When I have a bit more time, I really enjoy deciphering the Oxyrhynchus texts, though they are hard on the eye.

I recommend it to everyone and include the link in my courses, so my student's can sign up, too.

[A Little Weird]

5. Bookmarking

Looks like a lot of cool stuff to look through.

Another volunteer opportunity is helping the USGS by adding data to the National Map - http://navigator.er.usgs.gov/help/vgistructures_userguide.html

or you can do something similar with Open Street Map - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide

[GreenStormCloud]

6. Kick so the evening folks can see it. N/T

[MelungeonWoman]

7. I just signed up!

Thanks for posting, it looks like fun!

[Union Scribe]

8. What an AWESOME post!

I hit bookmark so hard I might have sprained my finger. Thank you GSC!

[NuclearDem]

9. Wow, bookmarking that for later.

Thanks for the link! This looks incredible.

[Logical]

10. Thanks! n-t