Behind most great discoveries in natural science is a deep foundation of field work.
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Apps are great helps for citizen science, but “old school” field notes remain a powerful tool for becoming a competent naturalist.
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Seventy-five years ago this month an amateur weather-watcher from West Sussex published a landmark paper in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society directly linking the burning of fossil fuels to the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Intertidal ecosystems are one of the more dramatic examples of what biologists call the “edge effect.” This describes what happens when two different kinds of ecosystems come into contact with each other.
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Beneath the public climate debate, another debate is going on, unnoticed, and one that citizen scientists may be uniquely qualified to address.
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It’s official: global warming is real. Now the debate has shifted to whether it’s worth doing anything about it.
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By Sheldon Greaves One of the legendary minds of the 20th century whose work will continue to enlighten the current century is R. Buckminster Fuller. “Bucky” as he preferred to be called was not only remarkable for the prodigious output … Continue reading
By Sheldon Greaves With the release last Friday of the Fourth National Climate Assessment came Trump’s predictable denial of the science behind it, and the equally predictable (and justifiable) exasperation expressed by anyone with even a moderate knowledge of the … Continue reading
By Sheldon Not long ago the web was abuzz with the news that a judge had ordered EPA Director Scott Pruitt to disclose the climate science behind his claims that deny accepted science on global warming. Scientific American (“Judge Orders … Continue reading
By Sheldon Greaves, Ph.D. 16 April 2018 PDF Version As the citizen science movement grows, questions persist about what, exactly, citizen science can and should do. Where should practitioners focus their efforts? Where does citizen science stand in relation to … Continue reading