The professional learning series for those leading, hoping to lead, or wanting to learn more about NASA Citizen Science.
What’s next? The call for submissions to the 2025 Conference for Advancing Participatory Sciences! Watch the conference website for details.
The NASA Helio Big Year is here!
Our Winter-Spring Series begins February 15. Monthly office hours. These “lab meetings” will feature project teams sharing challenges and their replicable solutions. Come learn!
Monthly Office Hours
Bring your questions, ideas, students, and yourselves to judgment-free open office hours with Marc Kuchner and Sarah Kirn. Special guests are noted in the schedule.
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February 15 - June 20: This series featured conversations with project teams about recent discoveries, tech or other innovations, productive collaborations, new project models, and effective and replicable practice.
September 26: Picking up where our March 28 event left off, we invite you to join us for a conversation about women’s participation in NASA-sponsored astronomy citizen science.
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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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2024 Lab Meeting Series
Our purpose is to support the growth, productivity, and evolution of the NASA citizen science* program and projects.
We are excited to bring you a new series that we’re calling NASA Cit Sci Lab Meetings. These events will be a chance for us to get into specifics with project teams about recent project news, exciting collaborations, and effective practice.
NOTE: 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.”
2024 Office Hour Schedule
We - NASA’s Citizen Science Officer Marc Kuchner and Citizen Science Strategist, NASA, Sarah Kirn - have loved our office hour conversations with you! While we’ve never attracted a crowd for these calls, we’ve always had productive, problem solving conversations with the people who join. So we are making office hours a monthly event. We encourage you to register for the series, put them in your calendar, and join us when you have a question or time allows. Our 2024 schedule of office hours follows appears below. And remember, if these times don’t work for you, send us an email - we’d be happy to find a time to talk that does). We are here to help you succeed!
Register once and SAVE YOUR LINK IN YOUR CALENDAR 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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January 11 is a chance to ask final questions about the Citizen Science Seed Funding Program (deadline January 24).
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We’re postponing our next gathering until February. If you’ve got an urgent question, send us an email!
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SCOPE proposals are due on February 28. Bring your questions about the SCOPE Seed Grant opportunity for Jessica.
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cancelled
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Open discussion on any topics; Cliff Johnson will join us to answer questions about Zooniverse.
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Open discussion on any topics; Cliff Johnson will join us to answer questions about Zooniverse.
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With special guest Lisa Winter of the National Science Foundation, who is currently a Detailee and Program Scientist with the NASA Heliophysics Division.
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Halloween edition! Costumes welcome.
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Last office hour of the year.