http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

The Monarch Butterfly in North America Web site gives many opportunities to observe and record the lives of the monarchs, from the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project to Project Monarch Health (which requires volunteers to collect parasite spores from live monarchs to help scientists map locations of disease in butterfly populations). Monarch Watch, based at the University of Kansas, had hoped to increase the number of waystations (for butterfly breeding) in its project from 1,250 in late 2008 to 10,000 in 2011, but economic realities may lead to the project’s end.

http://www.fs.fed.us/monarchbutterfly/citizenscience/index.shtml

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Hey Guys! :)
- few things from the last monday...

Water Testing

World Water Monitoring Day encourages citizen of our glob to test local water sources and report the information to a shared Web site. The project is overseen by the Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association, who hope to expand participation from 73,510 people in 70 countries in 2008 to one million people in 100 countries by 2012.

http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/index.html
A World Water Monitoring Day test kit, available from the website. (www.citizensci.com)

Foldit, a downloadable puzzle game created by researchers at the University of Washington, asks volunteer gamers to compete online to find new, stable structures for proteins that could help cure diseases. If you don't have the time to fold with all your other "citizen science" experiments bubbling, you can run Rosetta@Home on your idle computer, giving those UW researchers more power to run 3-dimensional-protein calculations.