73
Berkeley Open Infrastructure
for Network Computing, 38
BioBlitz, 26, 34
birds
condors, 42
counts of, 5–6, 23–24
Boyajian, Tabetha, 40
BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig
explosion, 49–50
Brady, Sean, 30
brain research
for Alzheimer’s, 46
neuron structure, 45,
45
TestMyBrain, 5, 32
Brugger, Kenneth, 21
Bucket Brigade, 50, 53–56,
54
Bulletin of the Ecological
Society of America
, 24
Burns, Loree Griffin, 18
butterflies, 21–22,
23,
29
cancer treatment, 16–17
Carpenter, David, 55–56
Cedar Creek Corrections
Center (Littlerock,
Washington), 29
Christmas bird count, 5–6, 23
citizen science
crowdsourcing, 6
history, 5–6
importance of, 7
Citizen Science Games
(website), 44
citizen scientists
age and, 17–20, 26
described, 4–5
donations of computer time,
37–38
famous, 9–10
increase in number of,
19
training, for data collection,
24
Citizen Scientists: Be a Part
of Scientific Discovery from
Your Own Backyard
(Burns),
18
City Nature Challenge, 26
Climateprediction.net, 38
comets, 13
Community Collaborative
Rain, Hail & Snow Network
(CoCoRaHS), 18, 27–28
computers, 37–38
AI software, 38–39, 43
pattern recognition by, 37,
41–42, 43
Condor Watch, 42
Cooper, Caren, 7
Cornell Lab of Ornithology,
23–24
crowdsourcing, 6, 22–23
Curley, Steven A., 16–17
data
amount of, 35–37
computer analysis of,
37–38
human analysis of, 38–40,
39
quality of, 24
