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Kaibab NF launches year-round citizen science project

January 2, 2017

Williams, Ariz., Dec. 9, 2016—For Immediate Release. Forest managers are excited to announce a citizen science project to identify and document the biodiversity of the Kaibab National Forest that will begin Jan. 1 and continue …

Nala Rogers

Kids document diseased amphibians in California

September 2, 2016

Young citizen scientists aged 4 to 16 have discovered that many frogs and toads on California’s northern coast are infected with the deadly chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). Seventeen percent of amphibians sampled were positive for …

Nala Rogers

WSB study: Citizen scientists dart cougars for population study

August 26, 2016

Hunters armed with biopsy darts may be the key to assessing cougar populations, according to a new study. Cougars (Puma concolor) live solitary lives in widely dispersed territories, and it’s hard to determine how many …

Dana Kobilinsky

Field note: A cheaper way to collect moths

April 19, 2016

Assistant professor at Michigan State University Peter White ordered moth traps for his undergraduate students working on a research project, but there was a delay in shipping. So, instead of waiting for the traps to …

Dana Kobilinsky

Similar response to climate change in European and US birds

April 15, 2016

Common birds in the United States and Europe have responded in similar ways to climate change in the last 30 years. “There are a lot of things that drive populations of animals to go up …

Joshua Rapp Learn

Citizen Scientists Build Online Mammal Atlas in Pennsylvania

December 11, 2015

What kinds of mammals live in your backyard? If you’re in Pennsylvania, a new website powered by citizen scientists’ photos may be able to tell you. “The general public can go and look to see …

Florida bonneted bat
Dana Kobilinsky

Video: Citizen Scientists Help Educate About Endangered Bat

July 2, 2015

Kirsten Bohn had just moved to Miami to begin working as an assistant research professor at Florida International University. It had been a few days after she had settled into her new house in Coral …

Toad
Conservation News

Mapping Maryland’s Reptiles and Amphibians

June 24, 2015

The only way to tell whether endemic animals are disappearing in the landscape is by keeping a close count on numbers. This isn’t even easy when trying to track giant mammals like elephants or lions …

Box turtle
Joshua Rapp Learn

Citizen Scientists Track Declining Box Turtles

June 17, 2015

The bowl-sized reptiles could be living in your garden or you may have helped them cross the highway. You may have caught them, or kept one as a pet when you were a kid. Now, …

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