it gives brief about the citizen scince project and three of its projects

1. CITIZEN SCIENCE
DONE BY:
NOUF AL-AJMI
NORA AL-HAMMAD

2. CITIZEN SCIENCE
What is citizen science?
 “Projects or ongoing program of scientific work in
which individual volunteers or networks of
volunteers, many of whom may have no specific
scientific training, perform or manage research-
related tasks such as observation, measurement or
computation”

3. CITIZEN SCIENCE
Benefits:
 It enables extensive data collection
 It provides interaction between scientists and the
community
 the ability for projects to inform both groups (scientists
and individuals).
 bringing in volunteers would introduce new questions and
thinking
 Spread awareness of mans impact on the environment.

4. IMPORTANT OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM
 A distributed system is a collection of independent
computers that appear to the users of the system
as a single system.

5. IMPORTANT OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM
 Citizen science has a lots of volunteers are needed to
analyze their date
 distributed system help by
 Enabling different nodes send their information
 Enabling the nodes from different area
 Enabling the nodes with different architecture
To send their data to one processing system to process
it

6. 1. DO YOU FEEL IT?
 It is a Web site produced by the U.S. Geological
Survey (USGS)
 The purpose of this site is to gather the information
about earthquakes from people and have a real
experience of them
 USGS looks for having a full description of what
people tested, the effects of the earthquake and the
degree of damage, by taking the advantages of
large number of the internet users.

7. 1. DO YOU FEEL IT?
By providing information about the earthquake, :
 Citizen scientists could make a significant
contribution to the scientific body of information
regarding this earthquake.
 They will ensure that their areas have been
represented in the shaking map
 Citizen scientists will learn more about how other
communities have more understanding of the
effects of earthquakes.

8. 1. DO YOU FEEL IT?
Project Details:
 PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST: David Wald,
 Supervisory Research Geophysicist
 SCIENTIST AFFILIATION: USGS National Earthquake
Information Center
 DATES: Ongoing
 PROJECT TYPE: Questionnaire
 COST: Free
 GRADE LEVEL: All Ages
 TIME COMMITMENT: Variable
 HOW TO JOIN: Visit the USGS Did You Feel It? Web
site.

9. 2. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY
 International education and outreach program that
builds public awareness and involvement in
protecting water resources around the world
 Done by the citizens

10. 2. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY
 provides basic information about streams, lakes
and coastal waters to provide a better
understanding of whether they are safe enough to
swim in, fish from, or use for drinking or irrigation
purposes.

11. 2. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY
 The monitoring period occurs any day/time between
March 22 (World Water Day) and December 31
 All data must be entered by December 31 to be
included in the year's annual report

12. 2. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY
 There is no fee to participate in the program
 To get your test kit you can take from LaMotte
Company, Sword Scientific, and Ansam and they
accept MasterCard, VISA, and American Express
 In 2011, approximately 340,000 people in 77
countries monitored their local waterway

13. 2. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY
 participants are encouraged to write stories and
publishing photos highlighting their events on the
WWMC Web site and on their own Web sites and
publications.
 Their plan is the Involvement leads to information
more involvement which leads to meeting the goal
of one million people monitoring by 2014!

14. 2. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY
Let test the quality of our waterways, share what you
find , and protect our most precious resource
http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/BlogArchives
.aspx

15. 3. SCHOOL OF ANT
 citizen-scientist project aim to study the ants live in
urban areas
 Participation is open to anyone interested
 Dr. Andrea Lucky heads the School of Ants project
 Their Email theschoolofants@gmail.com

16. 3. SCHOOL OF ANT
The Aim:
 create map to introduced ants in cities, not
just here in North Carolina, but across the
United States and, as this project grows, the
world
 The map arranged each type and where is
live

17. 3. SCHOOL OF ANT
PARTICIPATE STEP
sampling ants

18. 3. SCHOOL OF ANT
PARTICIPATE STEP:
1. recording data
2. http://schoolofants.org/participate
3. Submitting your sample:
Confirmation Code

19. 3. SCHOOL OF ANT
EXPERIMENT
•Katherine found a living rare kind of ant
•This discovery made Katherine one of the
first people ever to see this rare species of
ant alive under the microscope!
•As a result, Katherine Driscoll was still a
high school student when she started
working in the Dunn Lab

20. 3. SCHOOL OF ANT
 Let see What will you find living in your backyard?

21. CONCLUSION
 A distributed system is important to the Citizen
science

22. CONCLUSION
 Citizen science is great project
 It shortcut the time for the expert
 Allow the data to analyze by professional , this
helpful for the poor countries
 Let Make the world better for us and the next
generations

23. REFERENCE
 http://schoolofants.org/
 http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science
 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/
 http://www.unisa.edu.au/barbarahardy/research/citizen-
science.asp
 http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_citizen_science_and_
what_are_some_of_its_benefits
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_science
 http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/BlogArchives.as
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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing