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PBS Series "Crowd & The Cloud" - Highlights GLOBE Explores Citizen Science
According to the new PBS Series, Crowd & The Cloud, "There's a revolution happening in science. And, now more than ever, you can be a part of it." This four-part public television series, which premiered in April, explores the potential and the challenges of this new revolution - citizen science.
The series, hosted by former NASA Chief Scientist Waleed Abdalati, takes viewers on a global tour of the projects and the people on the "front lines" of this transformative adventure in how science is done, and shows how anyone, anywhere, can participate.
The series also highlights the work of The GLOBE Program:
- Episode 3, Viral vs Virus includes GLOBE and explores the GLOBE Mosquito Larvae Protocol and the GLOBE Observer Mosquitoes Habitat Mapper.
- Episode 1, Even Big Data Starts Small explores the GLOBE ENSO campaign.
In the United States, the series aired on PBS in April 2017. Now the entire series is available for streaming. Here, you can discover the world of citizen science by watching the episodes, joining a project, and learning more about the series.
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