Citizen Science and Astronomy at Home

How astronomy is part of a movement to engage the wider public in science. I am part of a team that build crowdsourced science websites, asking for volunteers to help analyse datasets that are too big for researchers.

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1. 1 . F I N D D A R K N E S S 2 . L O O K U P H O W T O B E A N A S T R O N O M E R : D R R O B E R T S I M P S O N
2. 1 . F I N D D A R K N E S S 2 . L O O K U P 3 . G O O N L I N E H O W T O B E A N A S T R O N O M E R : D R R O B E R T S I M P S O N
3. o r b i t i n g f ro g . c o m / a c e D R R O B E R T S I M P S O N
4. Kevin Schawinski
8. Classifications per Hour 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 70,000 Hours Since Launch 01 03 05 07 09 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47
9. Galaxy Zoo: help astronomers classify galaxies 400,000 volunteers galaxyzoo.org classifications 200m
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15. 980k worldwide 20 projects
16. years 50
17. papers 60 zooniverse.org/publications
19. The Milky Way Project: measure and map our galaxy in infrared 40,000 volunteers milkywayproject.org drawings 3,000,000
20. milkywayproject.org
21. Planet Hunters: finding exoplanets in NASA Kepler data 250,000 volunteers planethunters.org transits 20,000,000
22. planethunters.org
23. Snapshot Serengeti: identify and describe animals in Serengeti National Park 23,000 volunteers snapshotserengeti.org classifications 10,000,000
24. snapshotserengeti.org
25. Operation War Diary: Tagging soldiers’ diaries from WW1 for places, names and activities. Reconstructing events from scanned documents 10,000 volunteers operationwardiary.org transcriptions 200,000
27. Old Weather: transcribe the logs of WW1 vessels as they travel the globe, collecting valuable climate data 25,000 volunteers oldweather.org pages 1,000,000
36. 200 billion hours a year Spent watching TV by US adults 100 million hours total to create Wikipedia Inspiration: David McCandless (Goggle Boxes, July 2010), Data: Clay Shirky (‘Cognitive Surplus’, 2010)
37. 16 years Every Hour
38. Serendipity
39. Cardamone)et)al.)2009,)arXiv)0907.4155 zooniverse.org/publications
40. zooniverse.org/publications
42. zooniverse.org/publications
43. HMS Africa Sick List 1918 0 125 250 375 500 0 50 100 150 200 Aug Sep Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan Dec Nov
44. Serendipity ...in the Zooniverse
45. Serendipity ...in the Zooniverse
46. Rise of the Machines
51. Celestron SkyMaster 25x70 Binoculars AstroMaster 130EQ Telescope
53. “Solar System” for the iPad
54. zooniverse.org
55. o r b i t i n g f ro g . c o m / a c e D R R O B E R T S I M P S O N
56. o r b i t i n g f ro g . c o m / a c e ! S u i t c a s e s 1 9 : 0 0 D i n n e r 2 0 : 3 0 Tro m s ø 2 3 : 4 5 D R R O B E R T S I M P S O N