Newsletter #18: October 23, 2012

Help researchers identify fish while sipping your morning coffee. Contribute to sound research by listening to recordings of laughter, while at the bus stop. Or explore Mars while doing your laundry.

Here are10 online citizen science projects you can do in 15 minutes or less!

For Your Research Missions, we’ve highlighted three brief citizen science projects below. Give them a try!

Reminder: Calling all researchers and science team leaders! Are you looking for volunteers to help with research? Submit your project to our Project Finder for consideration.

Keep experimenting and stay tuned for some exciting announcements!

- The SciStarter Team

Digital Fishers

Digital Fishers

Help scientists identify different species of fish by watching 15-second videos from the comfort of your own computer and then click on simple responses.



The Royal Society Laughter Project

√   Sound

The Royal Society Laughter Project

Listen to recording of laughter and see if you can guess which laugh is real and which is posed. The results will help researchers at the University College of London learn how people react to different sounds.



Be a Martian

√   Astronomy

Be a Martian

Help NASA learn about the red planet by identifying important features in online images returned from previous Mars rovers,