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Tag: citizen science

Zooniverse

Adler Zooniverse Citizen Science Platform Honored By White House

Friday March 29th
Adler Planetarium Staff

Adler Zooniverse—the world’s largest and most popular platform for citizen science—recently won an award from the White House.

The famous Earthrise photo from the Apollo 8 mission. Image Credit: NASA

Earth Needs YOU (To Join An Adler Zooniverse Earth Science Project)

Tuesday March 26th
Aubrey Henretty

The Earth is counting on you not only during Earth Month, but all year long. Check out the latest Adler Zooniverse climate science projects.

Person sitting at desk with their laptop on Adler Zooniverse website homepage. 2022.

NASA Research You Can Contribute To Right Now

Wednesday June 22nd
Nikki O'Hara

Header Image: Person sitting at a desk with their laptop on Adler Zooniverse website homepage. 2022. As kids, some of us would look up at the Moon and hope one day we could step foot on it. Maybe you dreamed of blasting off into space on a rocketship as a NASA astronaut or becoming a […]

A person looking at a large blue, green, and brown rotating model of the Earth behind a curved table that is lit up with exhibit information.

Show Earth A Little Love With Adler Zooniverse

Wednesday April 6th
Aubrey Henretty

Header Image: Rotating Earth model seen in the Adler Planetarium’s Our Solar System exhibit. March 2022. Every planet in our solar system has its charms. Jupiter’s a great one if you’re into enormously destructive storms that have been raging for hundreds of years. Saturn has those pretty rings. But if you enjoy breathing, eating, and […]

A person looking through the Doane Observatory telescope at the Adler Planetarium

Tag Along With Adler: How This Adler Zooniverse Research Project Got Started

Tuesday April 27th
Adler Planetarium Staff

Header Image: A person looking through the Doane Observatory telescope at the Adler Planetarium. Written By: Former Digital Collections Access Manager Jessica BrodeFrank and Co-Director of Zooniverse, DH Lead. Dr. Samantha Blickhan Have you ever attempted to search the internet for a specific thing, but found that no matter what you typed in the search […]

Adler Zooniverse Citizen Science Platform

This Citizen Science Month, join a real research project with Adler Zooniverse!

Monday March 15th
Aubrey Henretty

Did you know that anyone (that means YOU) can become a citizen scientist? If you’re reading this, you already have everything you need to contribute to real research projects—and maybe even discover something no one knew they were looking for! April is Citizen Science Month, and you can celebrate by joining the millions of Adler […]

Graph from Adler Zooniverse project Health Record Hiccups that shows how health data is recorded over time.

Help Researchers Spot Suspicious Blips In Health Data With Adler Zooniverse

Friday October 9th
Aubrey Henretty

Image Caption: Adler Zooniverse project Health Record Hiccups analyzes graphs like this one to look for unexpected changes in health data over time. I’m not a statistician, a doctor, an elected official, or a very-recent-historian, but I would bet at least a couple of my vital organs that most of us have paid more attention to […]

Header Image: Adler Space Tours Zooniverse Citizen Science Projects

This summer, get off this planet with Adler Zooniverse

Tuesday July 14th
Aubrey Henretty

Header Image: Help researchers complete 8 different Adler Zooniverse citizen science projects while traveling the universe with Adler Space Tours! Summer plans looking a little sad this year? I have good news: There are more places in space than you could visit in a million summers—not including travel time. And you can explore a few […]

Pictures In The Sky

Tuesday June 16th
Pedro Raposo

Header Image: This celestial globe from the Adler Planetarium’s collection shows the 88 constellations and their corresponding boundaries—which are the light blue lines on the surface of this globe—defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).  On January 10, 2016, I was among the millions of music fans who staggered at the news that David Bowie […]

Constellation identification in The Adler Planetarium's Mapping Historic Skies interactive Zooniverse experience.

Mapping Historic Skies with Zooniverse

Friday March 27th
Adler Planetarium Staff

The Adler Planetarium’s newest exhibition, Chicago’s Night Sky, contains a first for the museum – an interactive experience that partners the Adler’s historic collection with the Zooniverse team. Learn about this Adler Zooniverse research project!

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