Such citizen science and crowdsourced data sources are growing fast, generating a wealth of unprecedented new information that can be leveraged for predictive flood modeling and decision-making.

A new study analyzed data, images, and recordings from platforms that crowdsource observations from all over the world to identify birds “lost to science.” In total, the project, called The Search for ...

Wildfire smoke impacts on indoor air quality assessed using crowdsourced data in California Yutong Liang, Deep Sengupta, Mark J. Campmier, David M. Lunderberg, Joshua S. Apte and Allen H. Goldstein ...

Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them.

EDITORIAL 02 October 2024 Use citizen science to turbocharge big-data projects Volunteers played a key part in validating a gigantic neuroscience study mapping the fruit-fly brain.