Citizen science more than a century later: Ordinary people go online to track Gulf oil spill

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Citizen science more than a century later: Ordinary people go online to track Gulf oil spill #134656 Mon 10 Dec 2012 07:52:PM
Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 678,977 Los Angeles, USA Webmaster Launch Director
Webmaster Launch Director Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 678,977 Los Angeles, USA	Researchers report on a new form of "citizen science," concluding that it can help assess health and environmental threats, such as those posed by the 2010 Gulf oil disaster. The researcher studied reports to an online Oil Spill Map and discovered that citizen science can red-flag potential hazards quickly and offers specific local information that often fails to make it into official scientific reports. Source: Citizen science more than a century later: Ordinary people go online to track Gulf oil spill David Cottle UBB Owner & Administrator