What we’ve learned from citizen science: 5 projects that made a difference
The article discusses citizen science initiatives across various fields, highlighting how public participation contributes to scientific research and environmental protection. It features examples like biosecurity monitoring, climate data transcription, astronomical discoveries, and mosquito surveillance, emphasizing the value of collaborative efforts.
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“The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is the nation’s largest open source biodiversity data source.”
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— The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is an online repository of information about Australian plants, animals, and fungi. Development started in 2006. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research…
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— Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of 7,688…
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— The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts as Sahul (), Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, or Meganesia to distinguish it from the country of Australia, is located within the So…
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“The Biosecurity Alerts Service delivers weekly email notifications to biosecurity managers about new reports of introduced and invasive species.”
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— National biosecurity in Australia is governed and administered by two federal government departments, the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and F…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosecurity_in_Australia
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— A four-tier alert level restrictions system was in place in during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand between March 2020 and December 2021, with levels 3 and 4 being forms of lockdown. In level 1, t…
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— Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California, in…
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“In 2020, the service led to the first report of globally invasive Asian shore crab (Hemigrapsus sanguineus).”
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— Apis cerana, the eastern honey bee, Asiatic honey bee or Asian honey bee, is a species of honey bee native to South, Southeast and East Asia. This species is the sister species of Apis koschevnikovi a…
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— The Asian hornet (Vespa velutina), also known as the yellow-legged hornet or Asian predatory wasp, is a species of hornet indigenous to Southeast Asia.
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— National biosecurity in Australia is governed and administered by two federal government departments, the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and F…
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“In 2024, an iNaturalist user recorded the first report of the invasive freshwater gold clam (Corbicula fluminea).”
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“In 2025, an iNaturalist citizen scientist recorded Siam weed north of Brisbane, over 1,000km from the nearest known infestation.”
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“More than 1,700 citizen scientists transcribed at least 67,400 weather observations recorded in the 19th century.”
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“The rescued data filled gaps in weather observations in Adelaide and Perth, creating continuous records back to 1830 and 1843.”
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“The Kilonova Seekers project has yielded more than 200 discoveries, including the GOTO0650 extremely bright star explosion.”
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“The Mozzie Monitors program, launched by the University of South Australia in 2018, involves setting low-tech mosquito traps and submitting images to iNaturalist.”
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“Mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest animal.”
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