Mushroom Observer is a website where you can record observations about mushrooms, help people identify mushrooms they aren’t familiar with, and expand the community around the scientific exploration of mushrooms.

By some estimates less than five percent of the world’s species of fungi are known to science. While things are slightly better for the large fleshy fungi known as mushrooms, it is still a common experience to come across a mushroom that cannot be easily identified in the available books or which doesn’t really fit the definition of any recognized species. This site is intended to address that gap by creating a place for us to talk about and record what we’ve found, as well as connect to the existing literature about mushrooms.

Please do not feel intimidated by the scientific bent of the site. Everyone is welcome to dive in and add their own mushroom observations, upload mushroom photos and make comments on other people’s observations.

Visit our homepage at dogagingproject.org and click the purple Enroll Your Dog button. You’ll be asked to complete a short survey that includes basic information about you and your dog, which will help us determine how to best include you in our research.

Journey North is a crowdsourced, participatory science program of the UW-Madison Arboretum. Thousands of volunteers across North America contribute observational data that help track wildlife migration and seasonal change. Journey North volunteers track the migration of monarch butterflies; six species of hummingbirds; American robins; common loons; red-winged blackbirds; Baltimore, Bullocks and orchard orioles; barn swallows; and bald eagles.

Caterpillars Count! is a project that relies on citizen scientists (you!) to help understand some of the most important organisms in our ecosystems—caterpillars and other insects—by conducting surveys of the plants and trees around them.

There are two ways to get involved with Caterpillars Count!. You can start up a new Caterpillars Count! site or find an existing Caterpillars Count! site near you.

We've been tracking litter since before smartphones existed, and we're still driven by uniting technology and citizen science to fight plastic pollution. Everyday, dedicated educational, non-profit, and scientific organizations and passionate citizen scientists from all around the world record data on inland and marine debris with our easy-to-use app, contributing to our open data platform where over 1.5 million items have been tracked to date. Together, we can create a bigger picture of marine debris and plastic pollution through collecting open data, generating scientific findings, informing policy, and inspiring upstream design.

We have three on-going research projects: Phenology and Climate, in which participants can observe plants going through seasonal changes; Pollinators and Climate, in which participants document pollinator visitation to flowering plants; and Milkweeds and Monarchs, in which participants search for monarch caterpillars and eggs to help preserve the monarch population.

Stream Selfie connects you with thousands of other citizen scientists to paint a picture of streams across America. Simply snap a pic of your local stream and share it here.

Your photo is step one in our effort to check the health of every stream in the country – far more streams than state and local agencies have the resources to check!

Thousands of people are working toward a common goal: clean water. Will you join us?

GLOBE Observer is an international citizen science initiative to understand our global environment. Your observations help scientists track changes in clouds in support of climate research. Scientists also use your data to verify NASA satellite data. And by submitting your observations, you can help students of all ages do real scientific research as part of the GLOBE Program. To participate, just download the app, go outside and follow the prompts in the app to observe your environment. Photograph clouds, record sky observations and compare them with NASA satellite images to help scientists understand the sky from above and below.

Clouds are a familiar feature in the atmospheres of planets. Because they can both warm and cool the atmosphere, they are important for understanding the weather and climate of planets. On Mars, icy clouds can form high in the atmosphere (above 50 km, about 30 miles up), the "mesosphere," called "mesospheric clouds". These clouds are interesting for several reasons. Although Mars is a dry planet, there is water vapor in the atmosphere that can form water-ice clouds. However, because the atmosphere of Mars is made up almost entirely (95%) of carbon-dioxide and it is cold, carbon-dioxide ice (think dry ice!) clouds can also form.

Aurorasaurus is the first citizen science project that aggregates relatively rare sightings of the Northern and Southern Lights in order to improve real-time tracking and understanding of the beautiful phenomenon. The Aurorasaurus project allows the public to enter their observations of aurora through their website in order to better characterize their frequency, location, and rare visual characteristics.

Report on whether you can or cannot see the Northern or Southern Lights in your location. Every report helps! We will be adding more features soon including the ability to log in and receive notifications.

Darwin’s Cats participants can tell us about their pets through free online surveys, or contribute to our genetics research by donating to sequence their cat’s DNA. Our community scientists are populating a massive, comprehensive database that will change the scale and scope at which pet research is conducted—not just at Darwin’s Ark, but worldwide.

Darwin's Cats is a community science project conducted by the nonprofit organization Darwin's Ark. While domestic cats have lived alongside humans for centuries, cats are surprisingly understudied. Darwin’s Cats is asking community scientists to join us in our research to rapidly advance our understanding of cat genetics, behavior, and evolutionary history.

With advances in imaging and AI technology, we can capture images of the ocean and quickly analyze them. However, AI needs people to continuously train and verify the models, and that's where FathomVerse comes in. Help train the AI that researchers use to find and identify animals in real ocean imagery. In doing so, you’ll hone your skills and learn how to identify nearly 50 groups of ocean animals. Every action in the game improves and trains machine learning models.

FathomVerse aims to increase our capacity to measure and monitor marine life in a changing ocean. This free mobile game offers an interactive community science experience where players engage with scientific images collected by robots and researchers around the world. Every dive in FathomVerse is filled with imagery that researchers, government agencies, and coastal communities collected with imaging systems and shared with us.

The GeSort game allows players to help researchers better understand how genomes evolve by solving puzzles of different levels of difficulty.

The goal of the game is to transform a mutable row of coloured shapes into a target row with the help of three operations (duplications, deletions and inversions). The rows of coloured shapes represent sequences of genes, and the three possible operations represent biological events known to occur in real genomes. The final score of a puzzle corresponds to the total number of operations applied to the mutable row. Similarly to the game of golf, this must be achieved with as few moves as possible!

The Great Sunflower Project has three programs. The Safe Gardens for Pollinators program which uses data collected on Lemon Queen sunflowers to examine the effects of pesticides on pollinators. The Pollinator Friendly Plants program which is designed to identify the key plants to support healthy pollinator communities. And, the Great Pollinator Habitat Challenge which allows citizen scientists to evaluate and improve gardens, parks and other green spaces for pollinators.

The Great Sunflower Project has three programs. The Safe Gardens for Pollinators program which uses data collected on Lemon Queen sunflowers to examine the effects of pesticides on pollinators. The Pollinator Friendly Plants program which is designed to identify the key plants to support healthy pollinator communities. And, the Great Pollinator Habitat Challenge which allows citizen scientists to evaluate and improve gardens, parks and other green spaces for pollinators.

GLOBE Observer is an international citizen science initiative to understand our global environment. Your observations help scientists track changes in clouds in support of climate research. Scientists also use your data to verify NASA satellite data. And by submitting your observations, you can help students of all ages do real scientific research as part of the GLOBE Program. To participate, just download the app, go outside and follow the prompts in the app to observe your environment. Photograph clouds, record sky observations and compare them with NASA satellite images to help scientists understand the sky from above and below.

Stream Selfie connects you with thousands of other citizen scientists to paint a picture of streams across America. Simply snap a pic of your local stream and share it here.

Your photo is step one in our effort to check the health of every stream in the country – far more streams than state and local agencies have the resources to check!

Thousands of people are working toward a common goal: clean water. Will you join us?

We have three on-going research projects: Phenology and Climate, in which participants can observe plants going through seasonal changes; Pollinators and Climate, in which participants document pollinator visitation to flowering plants; and Milkweeds and Monarchs, in which participants search for monarch caterpillars and eggs to help preserve the monarch population.

We have three on-going research projects: Phenology and Climate, in which participants can observe plants going through seasonal changes; Pollinators and Climate, in which participants document pollinator visitation to flowering plants; and Milkweeds and Monarchs, in which participants search for monarch caterpillars and eggs to help preserve the monarch population.

iMapInvasives is an's on-line, all-taxa invasive species database and mapping tool. The comprehensive database can be used for: -Documenting and sharing invasive species observation, survey, assessment and treatment data -The coordination of early detection and rapid response efforts though email alerts -Data analysis and summaries in the web interface and GIS

Participating jurisdictions: AZ ME NY OR PA SK Maritimes

Smartphone apps available free in the Apple Store and Google play store

iMapInvasives is an's on-line, all-taxa invasive species database and mapping tool. The comprehensive database can be used for: -Documenting and sharing invasive species observation, survey, assessment and treatment data -The coordination of early detection and rapid response efforts though email alerts -Data analysis and summaries in the web interface and GIS

Participating jurisdictions: AZ ME NY OR PA SK Maritimes

Smartphone apps available free in the Apple Store and Google play store