Explore our collection of Citizen Science quests.
21 quests found
Your neighborhood harbors more species than you think—and scientists need your eyes on the ground.
Document and map wildlife in your city while contributing to real scientific databases. Learn identification techniques and join the citizen science movement.
Your city block has more wild stories than you think—time to capture them frame by frame.
Learn to photograph and document urban nature—from rooftop ecosystems to sidewalk fungi—creating a visual archive of city biodiversity.
Your neighborhood has more species than you think—time to prove it.
Document the surprising wildlife networks thriving in your city's overlooked spaces through systematic observation and ecosystem mapping.
Your city has secret highways—and they're not for cars.
Map hidden wildlife corridors connecting urban green spaces. Learn to identify animal pathways, document species movement, and understand ecological connectivity in cities.
Your city is a living ecosystem—time to map how it actually breathes, drinks, and survives.
Track water systems, document green infrastructure, and map urban wildlife corridors in your neighborhood. Hands-on sustainability research that reveals how your city actually works.
Your city block has more wild neighbors than you think—this system helps you find them, understand them, and see your concrete jungle differently.
Build a repeatable system for spotting, documenting, and understanding urban wildlife patterns in your neighborhood using sensory mapping and citizen science protocols.
The loudest hour of the day, and almost nobody's listening.
Grab a friend, set an early alarm, and go meet the birds in your area. With a pair of binoculars and a free app that names singing birds out loud, you'll spend two hours finding ten different species, pigeons and house sparrows included.
The tree is singing. Want to know who?
Grab a friend and walk your campus for 45 minutes with a free bird ID app in your pocket. You'll learn five birds you can name on sight, hold the app up to a chirp in a tree, and watch it tell you who's singing.
Turn your gaze upward and discover the ever-changing art gallery painted across the sky.
Master the art of cloud identification while practicing mindfulness through deliberate sky observation. Learn to recognize all 10 cloud genera and understand weather patterns.
The birds outside have names. Go learn a few.
Grab a pair of 8x42 binoculars, a free bird ID app and a friend, then head out in the hour after sunrise to name the birds singing around you. You hold up your phone, the app guesses the song, and you two race to find the singer in the leaves.
One jar of murky water. A surprising number of residents.
Grab a jar, a friend and an afternoon. You're going to scoop water from a pond edge, a birdbath and a ditch, then put single drops under a microscope and meet whatever lives in them. Spinning green balls. Darting specks. A see-through shrimp with a beating heart.
The coyote den is three blocks from your apartment—you just haven't looked for it yet.
Transform vacant lots, parks, and green corridors into living ecology labs. Document wildlife patterns, map micro-habitats, and connect fragmented urban ecosystems.
That faint smudge in your binoculars tonight? It's a whole galaxy.
Grab a friend, a pair of 10x50 binoculars and a star wheel, and head out on a moonless night to find ten famous deep-sky objects. Galaxies, star clusters, glowing nebulae. You'll start with the Andromeda Galaxy, two and a half million light years away, and keep going.
The ocean steps back for two hours. Go meet the neighbors.
Grab a friend and head to a rocky beach on the lowest tide of the month. You'll pick one shelf about the size of two parking spaces, sketch it on paper, and hunt down every kind of creature living on it before the water comes back.
Turn your neighborhood into a living field laboratory—where every squirrel, weed, and bird tells a story about urban adaptation.
Document and map urban wildlife patterns using citizen science tools. Create biodiversity records that contribute to real conservation data.
Cities hold 20% of Earth's threatened species—your block might be their last stand.
Hands-on urban conservation work—from citizen science data collection to habitat restoration projects that actually move the needle in cities.
Your city runs on invisible networks—time to make them visible.
Use thermal cameras, RF detectors, and AR apps to uncover hidden infrastructure, ghost signs, and electromagnetic patterns in your city's forgotten layers.
Seven stars, and suddenly you know which way is north.
Grab someone you like talking to, step out into the yard after dark, and find the Big Dipper together. You'll use a paper star wheel to know where to look, trace the two pointer stars to Polaris, and sketch all seven stars before you head back inside.
The raccoon family in the alley knows more about your neighborhood than you do—time to meet them properly.
Learn to identify, observe, and support urban wildlife in your city through ethical interaction practices and conservation efforts.
The best wildlife encounters happen three blocks from your apartment, not three states away.
Learn to locate, observe, and photograph urban wildlife in your neighborhood. Discover tracking techniques and ethical interaction practices for coyotes, hawks, raccoons, and more.
Your city is a living field guide—learn to read it.
Learn to identify birds, insects, trees, and urban wildlife in your neighborhood. Train your naturalist eye with field guides and citizen science apps.
