CITIZEN SCIENCE

DONE BY:NOUF AL-AJMINORA AL-HAMMAD

CITIZEN SCIENCEWhat is citizen science? “Projects or ongoing program of scientific

work in which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as observation, measurement or computation”

CITIZEN SCIENCE

Benefits: It enables extensive data collection It provides interaction between scientists and the

community the ability for projects to inform both groups

(scientists and individuals). bringing in volunteers would introduce new

questions and thinking Spread awareness of mans impact on the

environment.

IMPORTANT OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM A distributed system is a collection of

independent computers that appear to the users of the system as a single system.

IMPORTANT OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM

Citizen science has a lots of volunteers are needed to analyze their date

distributed system help by Enabling different nodes send their information Enabling the nodes from different area Enabling the nodes with different architecture

To send their data to one processing system to processit

1. DO YOU FEEL IT? It is a Web site produced by the U.S. Geological

Survey (USGS) The purpose of this site is to gather the information

about earthquakes from people and have a real experience of them

USGS looks for having a full description of what people tested, the effects of the earthquake and the degree of damage, by taking the advantages of large number of the internet users.

1. DO YOU FEEL IT? By providing information about the earthquake, : Citizen scientists could make a significant

contribution to the scientific body of information regarding this earthquake.

They will ensure that their areas have been represented in the shaking map

Citizen scientists will learn more about how other communities have more understanding of the effects of earthquakes.

1. DO YOU FEEL IT?

Project Details:

PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST: David Wald, Supervisory Research Geophysicist SCIENTIST AFFILIATION: USGS National Earthquake

Information Center DATES: Ongoing PROJECT TYPE: Questionnaire COST: Free GRADE LEVEL: All Ages TIME COMMITMENT: Variable HOW TO JOIN: Visit the USGS Did You Feel It? Web site.

2. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY International education and outreach

program that builds public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources around the world

Done by the citizens

2. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY provides basic information about streams,

lakes and coastal waters to provide a better understanding of whether they are safe enough to swim in, fish from, or use for drinking or irrigation purposes.

2. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY The monitoring period occurs any day/time

between March 22 (World Water Day) and December 31

All data must be entered by December 31 to be included in the year's annual report

2. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY There is no fee to participate in the program

To get your test kit you can take from LaMotte Company, Sword Scientific, and Ansam and they accept MasterCard, VISA, and American Express

In 2011, approximately 340,000 people in 77 countries monitored their local waterway

2. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY participants are encouraged to write stories

and publishing photos highlighting their events on the WWMC Web site and on their own Web sites and publications.

Their plan is the Involvement leads to information more involvement which leads to meeting the goal of one million people monitoring by 2014!

2. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY

Let test the quality of our waterways, share what you find , and protect our most precious resource

http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/BlogArchives.aspx

3. SCHOOL OF ANT

citizen-scientist project aim to study the ants live in urban areas

Participation is open to anyone interested Dr. Andrea Lucky heads the School of Ants

project Their Email theschoolofants@gmail.com

The Aim: create map to introduced ants in

cities, not just here in North Carolina, but across the United States and, as this project grows, the world

The map arranged each type and where is live

3. SCHOOL OF ANT

PARTICIPATE STEP

sampling ants

3. SCHOOL OF ANT

PARTICIPATE STEP:

1. recording data

2. http://schoolofants.org/participate

3. Submitting your sample: Confirmation Code

3. SCHOOL OF ANT

EXPERIMENT

•Katherine found a living rare kind of ant

•This discovery made Katherine one of the first people ever to see this rare species of ant alive under the microscope!

•As a result, Katherine Driscoll was still a high school student when she started working in the Dunn Lab

3. SCHOOL OF ANT

Let see What will you find living in your backyard?

3. SCHOOL OF ANT

CONCLUSION A distributed system is important to the

Citizen science

CONCLUSION

Citizen science is great project It shortcut the time for the expert Allow the data to analyze by professional ,

this helpful for the poor countries Let Make the world better for us and the next

generations

REFERENCE http://schoolofants.org/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/ http://

www.unisa.edu.au/barbarahardy/research/citizen-science.asp

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_citizen_science_and_what_are_some_of_its_benefits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_science http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/BlogArch

ives.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing