Selecting a Citizen Science Project

There are several useful catalogs of citizen science projects including:

• SciStarter  has an online database of over 3,000 projects and events searchable by location, scientific topic, and age level
• Zooniverse has over 50 active online citizen science projects featured

The Citizen Science Association also produced this video for How to Select a Citizen Science Project for Use with Undergraduates.

Finally, here are various citizen science projects that have been used in higher education classrooms based on our recent survey of the literature:

Project	Discipline	Reference
Backyard Bark Beetles	Ecology	Vitone et al. 2016
CamClickr	Ecology	Voss and Cooper 2010
Caterpillars Count!	Ecology	Hurlbert et al. 2019
Cell Slider	Biology	Kridelbaugh 2016
ClimateWatch	Ecology	Mitchell et al. 2017
Cyclone Center	Earth Sciences	Phillips et al. 2018
EarthTrek's Gravestone Project	Earth Sciences	Guertin 2013
eBird	Ecology	Surasinghe and Courter 2012
Flip the Clinic	Health	Kridelbaugh 2016
Galaxy Zoo	Astronomy	Barmby et al. 2010
Great Sunflower Project	Ecology	Oberhauser and Lebuhn 2012
Maker Nurse	Health	Kridelbaugh 2016
Monarch Larva Monitoring Project	Ecology	Oberhauser and Lebuhn 2012
NatureAtlas	Ecology	Hardy and Hardy 2018
North American Amphibian Monitoring Program	Ecology	Cosentino et al. 2014
Notes from Nature	Ecology	Kridelbaugh 2016
NOVA RNA VirtuaLab	Biology	Kridelbaugh 2016
Phylo	Biology	Kridelbaugh 2016
Planet Hunters	Astronomy	Barmby et al. 2010
Play to Cure: Genes in Space	Biology	Kridelbaugh 2016
Project Roadkill	Ecology	Heigl and Zaller 2014
School of Ants	Ecology	Vitone et al. 2016
Small World Initiative	Microbiology	Davis et al. 2017
Solar Stormwatch	Astronomy	Barmby et al. 2010
Where is Delftia?	Microbiology	Riley et al. 2020
World Water Monitoring Challenge	Earth Sciences	Guertin 2013