Events matching tag "citizen science"
Saturday, March 8
An increasing number of brave researchers are venturing out from the ivory towers of academia to pursue their own independent research. This new culture of indie science attracts investigators with the freedom to develop…
Intermediate
Presenters
Cindy Wu, Daniel Grushkin, Ethan Perlstein, Jacob Shiach
Did you want to be a scientist when you grew up? Think you'll never get a chance to be a part of exciting discoveries in science? Citizen science allows all of us -- even those who are not "official" scientists -- to b…
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Presenters
Jessica Richman
Monday, March 10
66 million years ago, the dinosaurs had a very, very bad day thanks to an asteroid at least 10 km wide. Since 1998, NASA has led the global effort to find potentially hazardous asteroids, and has successfully found 95 pe…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jason Kessler, Jenn Gustetic