Top Reasons to Get Involved
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Get Involved @ Rutgers - Sample Projects
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National Moth WeekAn annual week around the 3rd week in July where people are invited to observe and record moths in the their natural habitat, as well as participate in festive activities. |
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Personal BioblitzOccurring March - May participants strive to observe, document, and celebrate as many species of wildlife as possible. Apps are used to carry the citizen science such as iNaturalist. |
Projects, Platforms, and more
There are many citizen science resources online for finding online and in-person citizen science projects, and this page has a small sampling of resources, platforms, and projects. Courtesy of Rebekah Miller, Gumberg Library, Duquesne University.
Here are sites that list lots of projects (click the logo to visit the site):
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Here are some governmental agencies that host citizen science projects:
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Here are some individual projects to check out:
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This work created by Rebekah Miller is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license; CC BY-NC 4.0
New Jersey Projects
- Barnegat Bay BlitzA week of coordinated trash-clean up extravaganzas at sites all around the Barnegat Bay watershed.
- Barnegat Bay PartnershipA resource page for all things citizen science at the Barnegat Bay Partnership. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find citizen science projects happening around the watershed.
- New Jersey Forest ServiceVolunteer to help maintain, research, and monitor NJ forests.
- Invasive Strike ForceA multi-organizational partnership in volunteer monitoring and management of invasive plants along hiking trails organized by the NY-NJ Trail Conference.
- Delaware Bay Horseshoe Crab SurveyCount Crabs! "Every May and June, at designated peak times, volunteers count horseshoe crabs at beaches along the shores of the Delaware Bay in both Delaware and New Jersey. This data is used to create the annual Delaware Bay Horseshoe Crab Survey which is utilized by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries, state agencies and scientists."
Projects in Humanities
- By the PeopleTranscribe, review, and tag digitized pages from the collection of the Library of Congress
- Shakespeare's WorldCurrently on hiatus, this project aims to transcribe handwritten documents by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and help us understand his life and times.
- SCOTUS NotesBehind the Scenes at Supreme Court Conference: the project is recruiting for transcribing the handwritten conference notes left by Supreme Court justices.
- American WWI Burial CardsTranscribing the card register with the death and burial information of over 78,000 American soldiers in World War I.
- CastawayThis project aims to digitize the records from the research vessels Dan Moore, Eastward, and Cape Hatteras from the years 1964 to 2013.
- Macdonald DictionaryTranscribing 12000 index cards with biographical information on over 22000 people, compiled by George Ranald Macdonald (1891 - 1967), a farmer and local historian in Canterbury, New Zealand between 1952 and 1964.
- Public EditorIts goal is to stop misinformation, by labeling misleading information in news articles.