April is Citizen Science Month which this year features the One Million Acts of Science Challenge, where participants from all over the world will try to make one million contributions to research projects that need their help. With thousands of citizen science projects that are active and available, things can get overwhelming. So SciStarter has taken the liberty of creating a Citizen Science Month interactive calendar with some great selections to get you started. Jump in, find a project and report your Act of Science here.
Show Kermit some love
For National Frog Month, we’ve got an irresistible collection of projects to help frogs and other amphibians. (Credit: Matthew Lancaster, public domain via Flickr Creative Commons).
April is National Frog Month, so now is the perfect time to sign up for one or more of these Kermit-approved frojects! What better way to leap into April?
Keep skies starry
It’s Dark Sky Week so why not work to ensure that you and future generations get a chance to see star-filled skies? Sign up for these Dark Sky citizen science projects!
Keep looking up
A rainbow appears over Yellowstone Park (Credit: NPS, Neal Herbert, public domain via Flickr Creative Commons).
Celebrate Find a Rainbow Day (April 3) by looking for a rainbow. And then look somewhere over (and under) the rainb
