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