What are your favorite citizen science projects?

SETI@Home. You do not even have to do anything. The program does it by itself!

Although it isn’t an online project, I use to participate in the Audubon Christmas Bird Count.

http://birds.audubon.org/christmas-bird-count

I was also a Weather Spotter with SKYWARN

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/skywarn/

Folding at home

@ragingloli I live near Berkeley and I went to a lecture at my astronomy club by the guy who developed SETI@Home. Interestingly, it was originally a project not on SETI, but on home computer utilization for projects.

@bkcunningham I’ve heard of the Christmas Bird Count and it certainly counts as a citizen science project. I don’t know enough about birds to participate, though.

@digitalimpression That protein folding site has the biggest potential of all—imagine if your computer was part of the fabled cure for cancer?

Oh, and just another plug for Cosmoquest, the organizers are great science educators. The primary person behind it runs the Astronomy Cast podcast.

I’m following this thread to find out what I can do!