Leveling Up your Participatory Science Projects with NASA Earthdata, 2024 Virtual Conference for Advancing Participatory Sciences
Creators: name: Elizabeth R. Joyner
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Leveling Up your Participatory Science Projects with NASA Earthdata

2024 Conference for Advancing Participatory SciencesTuesday, June 4, 2024, 4-5 p.m., EDT 

A poster and lightning talk were presented at the 2024 Virtual Conference for Advancing Participatory Sciences by Elizabeth Joyner, Community Coordinator.

Resources Presented:

NASA's Citizen Science for Earth Systems Program (CSESP) 



Community Eyes on River Ice: Broadening participation in freshwater ice observation to support hydrologic research, river forecasting, and winter travel safety.



FjordPhyto: Engaging tourists in field and satellite observations to understand polar phytoplankton dynamics




Monitoring Water Quality in Chesapeake Bay: Validating Landsat-8 satellite imagery and data products for water quality applications using samples collected by Citizen Scientists




Lake Observations from Citizen Scientists and Satellites: Validating satellite-acquired lake water levels with measurements taken by Citizen Scientists




Mountain Rain or Snow: Using Citizen Science observations to monitor rain-snow transition in the Western U.S. and improve satellite estimates of precipitation phase changes



Connect with NASA Missions, Sensors, and Data

Get Help Using NASA Data



Finding Data that you Need



Data Pathfinders

Entry Points into NASA Data





Overview of NASA Resources for Supporting Users back at the Office



Overview of Earthdata Forum



Here you can submit a ticket that will be filtered and triaged to the appropriate discipline-specific data center or subject matter expert(s). Email: support@earthdata.nasa.gov 






Earthdata Forum 



The Earthdata Forum provides a central online location where data users can interact with subject matter experts from DAACs to discuss data applications and research needs, and get answers to specific questions about accessing, viewing, and manipulating NASA Earth observation data.



Tutorials



NASA Earthdata Forum Quick Video Guide: Menu Features

NASA Earthdata Forum Quick Video Guide: How to Post a New Question

NASA Earthdata Forum Quick Video Guide: Faceted Search

NASA Earthdata Forum Quick Video Guide: Favorite Tags

Webinar: NASA's Earthdata Forum Connect to a Growing Body 











Webinars and Tutorials 



Data discovery and data access webinars and video tutorials available online. (YoutTube Channel)

View Recipes and Tutorials - NASA tutorials include step-by-step instructions for working with NASA Earth science resources; data discovery and access webinars span the Earth science disciplines.













Getting Started Guide Whether you are a scientist, an educator, a student, or just interested in learning more about how to use all of the openly accessible data in NASA's EOSDIS collection, we have the resources to help! This guide is designed to help you get started with NASA's Earth science datasets, services, and tools.










Advance NASA's Reach Among Citizen Scientists











Understanding Needs to Broaden Outside Use of NASA Data (UNBOUND)



UNBOUND Opportunity and Background



Past UNBOUND Workshops



UNBOUND for Coastal Issues (UNBOUND CI) 

UNBOUND Air Quality

UNBOUND for Environmental Justice

UNBOUND for Environmental Predictors of Species Distributions















Get Involved with UNBOUND

Workshops are funded through the NASA Roses Solicitation: F.2 Topical Workshops, Symposia, and Conferences and other avenues. Potential Principal Investigators should contact Dr. Gerald Guala (gerald.f.guala@nasa.gov), the NASA Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program Scientist, for further information and before submitting any proposals.







Extend Your Project's Impact with NASA Funding






Funding Opportunity:



NASA Funding Opportunity for Citizen Science Projects

WATCH THIS! Max Bernstein unwraps ROSES, NASA's annual omnibus solicitation for proposals (TIPS and TRICKS for ROSES!)

ROSES-2024 Summary of Solicitation (PDF)

ROSES-2024: Citizen Science for Earth Systems Program (PDF)

Earth Science Research Overview for ROSES-2024 (PDF)


Connect with Us



To sign-up to receive announcements for upcoming webinars:   Send an email to: earthdatawebinars-join@lists.nasa.gov  leave the subject and body of the email blank.

Get NASA Earth science data news in your inbox: Sign up for the ESDS Monthly Newsletter

NASA Earthdata X: @NASAEarthdata , NASA Earthdata Facebook: www.facebook.com/NASAEarthdata 


NASA Citizen Science

Learn more about NASA Citizen Science







Citizen Science Projects at NASA Science




Connect with NASA Citizen Science:



NASA Citizen Science Leaders Series



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