The professional learning series for those leading, hoping to lead, or wanting to learn more about NASA Citizen Science.
News! A special collection on “The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Citizen Science” has just been released.
The call for individual submissions to the Conference for Advancing Participatory Sciences is open until January 15, 2025.
Thank you for a wonderful 2024!
And it’s not over yet. The NASA Helio Big Year continues through the Parker Solar Probe’s December 24, 2024 closest approach to the sun. Many of us will gather in Washington, DC for the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting (come by the NASA booth for your I do NASA Science sticker!).
Monthly Office Hours - 2025 schedule is posted!
Bring your questions, ideas, students, and yourselves to judgment-free open office hours with Marc Kuchner and Sarah Kirn. Featured guests will be added as they are scheduled.
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Our 2024 series featured conversations with project teams about recent discoveries, tech or other innovations, productive collaborations, new project models, effective and replicable practice, and promising practices for better welcoming women and girls to astronomy-themed citizen science.
Recordings and Resources
Visit our archives to learn about cit sci platforms, NASA’s ROSES process, working with advanced volunteers, metadata, research products, Zooniverse, project design, broadening participation, and more!
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2025 Series Details Coming Soon!
At our 2024 annual meeting, you gave us fresh ideas for how we can help you - these are some that stood out to us and that we are planning to address in the series.
Long-term data storage - solutions to cover costs and management
Funding: NASA opportunities (inside and outside of ROSES), NASA norms and procedures regarding interacting with program officers private foundations supporting citizen/participatory science, federal funding opportunities outside of NASA, long-term project support
Website analytics/ strategies for understanding participants’ use of a project website as a signal of how well project is “working” for participants
AI. (There’s a special issue of the journal Citizen Science Theory and Practice led by Zooniverse’s own Dr. Lucy Fortson, due out in January. Our event will likely feature this content.)
Is there something else on your mind? Please let us know by sending us an email.
NOTE: Event days TBD. All events will begin promptly at 3 pm ET / 2 pm CT / 1 pm MT / noon PT / 11 am AK. The line will open ~15 min before then.
* NASA citizen science projects are open to everyone around the world. Participation is not reserved for U.S. citizens or residents. To best convey this, we recommend projects refer to participants as “volunteers,” “participants,” “colleagues,” etc., rather than “citizens.”
2025 Office Hour Schedule
We - Marc Kuchner and Sarah Kirn - love our office hour conversations with you! Office hours are a monthly event. In 2025, Office Hours will happen on the third Tuesday of every month. Register for the series, put them in your calendar, and join us when you have a question, want some company, or want to share a story of success. Our 2024 schedule of office hours appears below. If these times don’t work for you, send us an email - we’d be happy to find a time to talk that does.
Register once and SAVE YOUR LINK IN YOUR CALENDAR (third Tuesday of each month) as you will use it to join each session.
NOTE: Office hours will begin promptly at 4:00 pm Eastern / 3:00 pm Central / 2:00 pm Mountain / 1:00 pm Pacific / 12:00 pm Alaskan time zone and run for one hour.
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In collaboration with SciStarter, we are planning a special Do NASA Science event in January for veterans, service members, and their families. This office hour welcomes anyone from those communities as well as anyone from the NASA citizen science community.
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Last office hour of the year.
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