1. College of Computer Science, Information System Department
King Saud University

2. Outlines
 What is Citizen Science?
Citizen Science Projects Examples:
Redwood Watch.
Did You Feel It?
World Water Monitoring Day.
References.

3. What is Citizen Science?
Citizen Science is a method of research which
involves the participation of the wider community
of whom may have no specific scientific
training, perform or manage research-related
tasks such as observation, measurement or
computation in scientific projects.

4. Citizen Science (Cont.)
• Have more people collecting data
and submitted via online survey
instruments .
• Have taken data sets that would
have required a small science team
over a century to analyze and
completed the analysis with a high
level of accuracy in months.
• Scientists benefit from data
collected over a large area, or over a
long period of time.

5. Did You Feel It?
• Did You Feel It?
• is a Web site produced by
the U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) to tap the abundant
information available about
earthquakes from the
people who actually
experience them.
•

6. Did You Feel It?
• PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST: David
Wald, Supervisory Research
Geophysicist.
• SCIENTIST AFFILIATION: USGS
National Earthquake Information
Centre.
• DATES: Ongoing
• PROJECT TYPE: Questionnaire
• COST: Free
• GRADE LEVEL: All Ages
• TIME COMMITMENT: Variable

7. Redwood Watch
• Redwood Watch is a citizen science
project created by Save the
Redwoods League scientists to:
• help learn in what climates
redwoods can survive.
• track the redwood forests'
migration over time.
• Redwood forests once grew in
North America and beyond but
their territory, which has shrunk
due to changing landscapes and
climates over millions of years.

8. Redwood Watch
• Today stands at about 1.9 million acres along
the coast of Northern California.
• Researchers believe that climate change will
continue to impact the survival of these trees
and are seeking help to map the areas where
redwoods are currently thriving.
• Redwood tree observations can be made
anywhere redwood trees are found and
recorded using the Redwood Watch iPhone
application.

9. World Water Monitoring Day
 World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) is an
international education and outreach program
that builds public awareness and involvement in
protecting water resources around the world.
 Water monitoring provides basic information
about streams, lakes and coastal waters.
In 2011, approximately 340,000 people in 77
countries monitored their local waterways.

10. World Water Monitoring
Day(Cont)
When??
WWMD is celebrated on September 18, but
monitoring and educational events can take
place between March 22 and December 31.
How??
A test kits enables children and adults to
sample local water bodies for a core set of
water quality parameters including:
temperature. acidity (pH).
clarity. dissolved oxygen (DO).

11. References
1) http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/
2) http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/investigate/participate/cit
izenscience
3) http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-
science/project.cfm?id=world-water-monitoring-day
4) http://water.epa.gov/