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Scientific American has been bringing science to people for over 160 years. Now the magazine is bringing people to science through a new online listing of citizen science opportunities. Early this month, Scientific American Online launched a Citizen Science section of the web site. This is part of a larger Education effort, which includes a number of science activities called Bring Science Home.

platform for data collection and sharing - relevance for citizen science and citizen journalism

online citizen science for astronomy and a couple of other natural science projects

example of a Citizen Science blog, Cornell Lab or Ornithology

The Virtual Museum (VM) provides the platform for citizen scientists to contribute to biodiversity projects.  This innovative concept was developed by the Animal Demography Unit. For many people, a "museum" is a place to see stuffed animals on display. But the ADU's Virtual Museum is not like this. The scientific part of a museum contains collections of specimens, frequently large numbers of specimens of the same species from different parts of the range, all carefully preserved and labelled with the date and place where they were collected. The ADU's Virtual Museum is like this, except that instead of specimens in draws or bottles, we have digital photographs arranged in a database.

Privacy settings - classify for digital responsible citizens? Bear in mind, these stats are US

I sent them a message about the Science for Citizens courses and suggested a feature on Penguins as Ocean Sentinels, as this mag is promoted by SANCCOB

May be helpful example for Citizen Science