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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.

Wonder how they did this so nicely - I've added direct links on the Summer School ones so people can download mp3s, but it looks a bit ugly - this may be a nice idea for our next podcasts:)

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.