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Hi Gail,
Take a look at our Vital Signs citizen science project,
www.vitalsignsme.org. We do pretty much exactly what you describe and much
more. The resulting data repository is used both by students and by
biologists and other researchers around New England.
I'd be happy to tell you more or you can contact the program director, Sarah
Kirn at [log in to unmask]
Dana Hutchins
Image Works/XhibitNet
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Portland, ME 04101
207.329.7040 cell
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On 7/1/10 2:24 PM, "Donoghue, Gail" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I need you to do some research on programs that are available at other
> science centers. Are there any programs out there that involve
> students, or the general public, in a real, sustained research project.
> A project that simply has visitors doing the same activity with the same
> results to evaluate would not count. For example: I saw one activity in
> the Dimensions Magazine where students build mini windmills and test
> them - this would not count. An example I am thinking of would be
> something like each participating visitor collects a water sample from
> the local river, analyzes the chemistry of the sample, records it
> including date, time, GPS location, etc. and then adds it to a standing
> database where they could run analytical programs for trending, etc.
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> Thanks,
> Gail
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> Gail Donoghue
> Supervisor, Science Learning Center
> Brookhaven National Laboratory
> Building 400C
> Upton, New York 11973
> 631-344-2838
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