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Re: research participation
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Beryl Rosenthal <[log in to unmask]>
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The Ornithology Lab at Cornell has a Citizen Science Project that has been going on for YEARS.
Beryl

On Jul 1, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Donoghue, Gail 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.
> 
> 
> 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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