akehashiEnvironmental Archaeology at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Work with scientists and students to excavate sites, preserve artifacts, and collect environmental data to understand the ways that people have changed the land over the past 200 years.
North American Breeding Bird Survey
North American Breeding Bird Survey
Monitoring the Air in Our Community: Engaging Citizens in Research
National Jewish Health and RTI International are teaming up with the City of Denver, Groundwork Denver, and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to learn how communities can use person...
Urban Archeology Corps
The Urban Archeology Corps is a national program where young people age 15-26 conduct a range of archeological tasks to learn about urban national parks and their surrounding communities, the diverse ...
Project Sidewalk
Project Sidewalk combines remote crowdsourcing + machine learning to map the accessibility of the world. Crowd workers virtually walk through cities labeling inaccessible areas. Collected data is used...
Students Discover
Students Discover offers free, high-quality curriculum to middle school science teachers around the world. These curriculum modules were created in partnership between scientists and educators to supp...
Local Environmental Observer Network
The Local Environmental Observer Network is a project that applies traditional knowledge along side western science and technology in order to document change due to climate change, development and pr...
Image Detective
Use your geography skills to geolocate Astronaut photography of Earth! If you have always wanted to associate those amazing photographs of our beautiful planet taken from space with their locations o...
EcoCast: Improving Ecological and Economic Sustainability of Marine Fisheries Using Remotely-sensed Oceanographic Data
Balancing sustainable ecological and economic objectives is a continuing challenge for fisheries managers. Many US fisheries harvest healthy target stocks, however, bycatch of non-target species is co...
Use of early successional forests by birds during the post-fledging period
Populations of many migratory birds that require large tracts of mature forest to nest are declining across the eastern states, despite the fact that our forests are maturing and in many states are st...
Smithsonian Transcription Center
The Smithsonian Transcription Center engages the public in making our priceless collections more accessible. We work hand-in-hand with Digital Volunteers to transcribe historic documents and collecti...
The Delaware Bay Horseshoe Crab Survey
The Delaware Bay Horseshoe Crab Survey was founded in 1990, and received government support beginning in 1999. Volunteers collect data on Horseshoe crabs through beach surveys, providing critical info...