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This way of gathering knowledge seems to be the “older sister” of academic science. From at least the 18th century, many nature enthusiasts, not having a university background, collected very important collections of information about the environment. Bird migrations were observed, star catalogues were created, and bottles with letters were used to study ocean currents. This group included Gregor Mendel, Alexander von Humboldt, and Charles Darwin. Some of them, thanks to their achievements, reached the highest positions in academic sciences. Later, the activities of enthusiasts were overshadowed by scientific institutions.<\/p>\n
It was only in the mid-twentieth century that the potential of Citizen Science began to be recognised and fully exploited, and over the last two decades the respect for this type of activity has grown significantly. Today, science enthusiasts discover comets, track bird migrations, monitor invasions of alien species and the effectiveness of reintroduction, and even look for alien civilisations. You can try too!<\/p>\n
The Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot has been conducting citizen science projects for several years.<\/p>\n
What is Citizen Science? This way of gathering knowledge seems to be the “older sister” of academic science. From at least the 18th century, many nature enthusiasts, not having a university background, collected very important collections of information about the environment. Bird migrations were observed, star catalogues were created, and bottles with letters were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n