The Oxford English Dictionary defines citizen science as "scientific work undertaken by members of the general public, often in collaboration with or under the direction of professional scientists and scientific institutions". In this IW seminar, you will use computer science to help citizen scientists accelerate the pace of scientific discovery.
The term citizen science is relatively new, though a straightforward and consistent definition is gaining acceptance: citizen science refers to scientific work undertaken by members of the general public, often in collaboration with or under the direction of professional scientists and scientific institutions.
Fishermen, working under the direction of NMFS scientists, often conduct these assessments through cooperative research programs.
Advancing the scope of bioorthogonal micropatternings toward innovative cell culture studies to decipher and manipulate the complex extracellular microenvironments is the other critical future direction of biomedical scientists.
In late June 1941 President Roosevelt established the Office of Scientific Research and Development under the direction of the scientist Vannevar Bush, subsuming the National Defense Research Committee that had directed the nation's mobilization effort to utilize science for weapon development the previous year.
The second is taking part in a bioblitz on the outskirts of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique — an organized effort, under the direction of a scientist, in which ordinary people collect and add up as many species as they can in a defined area within a set time.
Now, all three have been brought together under the direction of chief scientist Elbert Branscomb, a Livermore staffer who specializes in bioinformatics and comparative genome analysis.
Under the direction of Soviet scientist Abram Ioffe a concentrating system was used to thermoelectrically generate power for a 1 hp engine.
In one double-blind study, published in 2001 under the direction of Peter Josling, British scientists followed 146 healthy adults over 12 weeks from November to February.
So far no crisis has occurred in either direction of too many scientists or too few.
