Another bit of citizen science at the weekend, checking my local river's water quality. Phosphate levels have increased since last time.

#Earthwatch #FreshwaterWatch #citizenscience

Doing a spot of #citizenscience for #earthwatch, testing #waterquality in a local stream.

🛰️🌍 When carbon-monitoring satellites vanish, our climate oversight fades to black.

🚫 Who benefits when we can’t track the gases heating our world? Hint: not the planet.

https://brewminate.com/when-carbon-satellites-vanish-how-earths-climate-oversight-is-at-risk/

#Brewminate #ClimateCrisis #EarthWatch

NASA’s OCO Missions Face Defunding as Climate Data Hangs in Balance

Trump’s 2026 budget targets NASA’s OCO 2 and OCO 3 satellites, risking loss of vital carbon tracking data and sparking scientific alarm.

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the big story of tiny forests

I used to get quite a few stories from Earthwatch Europe back in the noughties, when they sent expeditions to lots of places around the wor...

the big story of tiny forests

I used to get quite a few stories from Earthwatch Europe back in the noughties, when they sent expeditions to lots of places around the wor...

#Earthwatch #tinyforest #wildlife count is happening now. There is a tiny forest in Meadow Lane, #Oxford (near Fairacres Road) and one in Witney. https://earthwatch.org.uk/tiny-forest-wildlife-count/ #science #nature #ecology #conservation
Tiny Forest Wildlife Count - Earthwatch Europe

Thank you to everyone who joined the 2024 Tiny Forest Wildlife Count. Help us count bugs and butterflies at your local Tiny Forest!

Earthwatch Europe

#Oxford #CaféScientifique happening #today (Tuesday 13th May) Dept. Pharmacology, talk starts 7:15pm as usual:

"Planted Today, Thriving Tomorrow: Rapidly Transforming Urban Spaces with Tiny Forests" — Dr Claire Narraway of #Earthwatch

#science #ecology #forests #UrbanEcology #EarthwatchUK #EarthwatchEurope

Researchers seek to expand ‘citizen scientist’ testing of UK river quality

Volunteers’ data should be included in official monitoring reports to tackle pollution crisis, says Earthwatch

The Guardian
My @CurrentBiology
features of 2021 now in the #OpenArchives (21/24): A brief history of #Earthwatch and #CitizenScience more generally: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2021/11/citizen-science-then-and-now.html
citizen science then and now

Back in the happy days before Brexit and Trump became a thing, I regularly attended Earthwatch events and wrote stories about their excitin...