Auspex Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Please add any volunteer opportunities that you become aware of to this thread; we can thereby showcase the range of ways anyone can help an institution (and learn a lot in the process) I kick it off with one such in the news today: "The Smithsonian Institution wants the public's help to digitize museum collections faster to make them available to researchers online." >LINK< 1 "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Great idea, Chas! Here are a few in Connecticut. Dinosaur State Park Yale-Peabody Museum Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewcuse Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Please add any volunteer opportunities that you become aware of to this thread; we can thereby showcase the range of ways anyone can help an institution (and learn a lot in the process) I kick it off with one such in the news today: "The Smithsonian Institution wants the public's help to digitize museum collections faster to make them available to researchers online." >LINK< Currently on this Smithsonian site are several field journal transcription projects, including one for Charles D. Walcott "detailed descriptions of geographic sections, stone types, color, texture, and fossils found." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarleysGh0st Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Great link, Auspex! Those of us who live close to a scientific institution can always find volunteer opportunities to keep us busy. This Smithsonian Institution project is wonderful, in that it gives folks who might live a long way from anywhere a chance to help out. Looks like they particularly need people who are good a deciphering other people's handwriting in old field books. The director of collections at PRI heard about this crowdsourcing project, so it's on our list to be investigated, in the category of "sounds great--how can we do it?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanNREMTP Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 www.zooniverse.org There is always something here for anyone and everyone. I used to do the seafloor explorer and the plankton portal but with fossils there has been very little time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trexy Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Thank you for the zooniverse.org website. With all the different topics, I can think of something for everyone. I've been telling my friends to check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanNREMTP Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 They keep adding new projects all the time. Everything from penguin counting to seastar tracking to WW2 diary recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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