Index of subjects in The Everyday Scientist
What'll ya have?
The natural world
Air quality: Staying In & Freaking Out: Learn about community science options to monitor air quality. 7.21.23
Air quality: Air quality and wood pellet plants around the Southeast. 12.20.23
Bird Nests: Elevation + Relaxation. 2.14.24
Dead Insects: Circle of Life Edition. 8.25.23
Reef (Ocean): Community science at the Great Barrier Reef. 11.16.23
Roadkill: A Problem that is Getting Worse. 10.16.23
Sky: NASA Globe Observer for Clouds: Both Sides, Now. 7.1.23
Sky: Globe at Night: While Avoiding Fall at Night and Fight at Night. 4.27.23
Sky: Heliophysics Big Year. 10.20.23
Trash: Debris Tracker: Fighting Against a Shrink-Wrapped World. 2.8.23
Water quality: Chattahoochee Riverkeeper: Trash Talk that’s Mighty Sick. 1.13.23
Water quality: Chattahoochee Riverkeeper: Water Quality Sampling. 1.20.23
Weather: Community Collaboration Rain, Hail & Snow Network: I’ve seen frogs and I’ve seen rain. 1.27.23
Flora and Fauna
Amphibians, frogs: FrogWatch: I’m in the army now. 2.26.23
Amphibians: Salamander Roll and Stroll. 3.10.24
Belugas: A Beluga Has a Hashtag. That’s not good. 12.1.23
Birds: Audubon’s Backyard Bird Count: Epaulettes Help A-Lot! 2.23.23
Birds: NestWatch & Birds and Debris: Nest Blind Down in Georgia. 3.16.23
Birds: Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count: Pretty Bird Words. 1.5.23
Birds: Christmas Bird Count. 12.14.23
Birds: Birds of a feeder. 12.31.23
Birds: What if drawing makes me a better birder? Or just better? 1.9.24
Bumble Bees: Southeast Bumble Bee Atlas. 8.18.23
Bumble Bees: Community Scientists = People Who Try. 10.2.23
Bumble Bees: What to Say When the Sierra Club Comes Calling. 11.1.23
Butterflies: North American Butterfly Association: Relax and count butterflies. Let the yard go. 3.9.23
Butterflies, Moths and Skippers: Circle of Life Edition. 8.25.23
Cicadas: Today’s Demon: Cicadas. 3.24.24
Fireflies: Firefly Community Science: Jewels of the Night, yes; Charismatic, it depends. 6.23.23
Fish: Hornyhead Fish & City Nature Challenge: My cakeist weekend. 5.4.23
Grasslands: Georgia Grasslands Initiative: Community Science That’s Working to Make the Grass Greener in our State. 4.20.23
Moths: Moths? Non-charismatic Yet Still Having a Moment. 7.28.23
Octopuses: Octopuses Are Having a Moment. 3.29.24
Plants: Budburst: To all ye mirthful and budding scientists out there. . . 3.2.23
Plants: Going for Gold in the Garden with Urine: Getting personal with community science. 4.13.23
Plants: Seeing Red in the Diamorpha Fields of Arabia Mountain: A walk with an expert and iNaturalist. 4.6.23
Plants: Globe Observer Trees. 4.17.24
Plants & animals: iNaturalist: A nod to the multi-purpose app for community science. 5.23.23
Plants & animals: iNaturalist, Redux: Take a walk this week with a guest writer, some poetry and community science. 5.30.23
Plants & animals: iNaturalist Project Pages: The ways community science becomes local & social. 5.11.23
Plants & animals: Community Science Goes Along For the Ride at BRAG: See what transpires from the seat of a bike. 6.15.23 Also podcast: The mattress went down to Georgia. 6.16.23
Sound: Spread the Silence. 6.5.24
Trees: The American Chestnut Tree. 5.22.24
Wasps: The Rascal Who Loved Me. 6.30.24
Mini interviews with impressive environmentalists from Georgia
Robby Astrove, Park Ranger at Arabia Mountain. 4.6.23
Phil Delestrez, Resource Manager for Habitats with GA Dept. of Natural Resources. 3.9.23
Sam Jenkins, DNR gopher tortoise survey crew member, 8.4.23. Part two of story is here.
Shaundon Moore: Lead Environmental Educator at the West Atlanta Water Alliance. 2.2.23
Starr Whitten: Taking the Long View on Trees. 5.7.24
Kathryn Youngblood, Citizen Science Director for Debris Tracker. 2.8.23
Community science topics and research (in chronological order)
The Ins and Outs of Community Science: why read this newsletter? 12.31.22
Cicadas and Community Science: Keep calm and stop screaming. 12.31.22
Juggling in Georgia: An update on my back-burner community science projects. 7.14.23
Why Are People so Afraid to Poke Things With Sticks? 9.13.23
Community Scientist: People Who Try. 10.2.23
Thriving Earth Exchange. 10.28.23