“Community science challenges students to solve pressing real-world problems and enables the integration of modern scientific approaches and traditional cultural knowledge into curriculum designed to foster a sense of place.”
Hands-on, community science research projects are a powerful way for teachers and students to connect with the natural world and build affinity for the health of the ecosystem.
We hope to share the scientific equipment, training, and curriculum that enables schools to participate in building a scientific database of information useful to all of us. For students, whether they are analyzing and interpreting data used to monitor and manage watershed health, or discovering and sequencing novel, endemic bacteria, or contributing to the COVID response through tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants, they are contributing their passion and energy to solving the challenges our community faces and contributing to issues such as climate change, infectious disease, flood mitigation, and pollution.