In these months in which many of us are forced to stay home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many citizen science activites we can do to feel less isolated or contribute to interesting research.
Here is a list of projects to contribute to from your home:
- Participate in the iNaturalist City Nature Challenge to track biodiversity aound us; if you missed the first part of the challenge, you can join in for the second part and help identify what was photographed by others.
- Help categorize galaxies in GalaxyZoo, one of the many Zooniverse ongoing projects.
- You can also track and count penguins in remote regions of the world in Penguin Watch (also hosted by Zooniverse).
- Take part in one of the Citizen Science Month online events.
Here is a list of COVID-19 related tools:
- If you or your community have been affected by the impact of the global pandemic, you can report your experience on CoronaReport.
- Flusurvey is a tool that monitors infectious diseases in the communities. It was repurposed from a tool developed to track the effects of the 2009 swine flu.
- Operation COVID19 is a project to track and prevent the spread of the virus.
- Check out COVIDbase for a continuously updated tracker of coronavirus related projects.
Photo via Penguin Watch
