With any pursuit, there are casual dabblers and there are hardcore enthusiasts, and citizen science is no different. In this episode, we'll meet some serious citsci volunteers, some of whom have gone on to pursue full-time careers in science.

Projects and websites mentioned in this episode are:

Disk Detective

Zooniverse

Nature's Notebook

National Phenology Network (NPN) USA

American River Conservancy

Journey North

I See Change

BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing)

AirCasting, from HabitatMap

Citizen Science Association conference

Sun/cloud image credit: FurbyChan, via Flickr, Creative Commons license by/nc/2.0/