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LABRats Receives $150,000 Grant

Shawn Carlson, Ph.D., Founder and Director of the Society for Amateur Scientists

This is a great day for science literacy. A generous Bostonian businessman who understands LABRats' true potential has given our program $150,000!

SAS Member Brian Chapel Lands a Research Position

Brian Chapel of Victoria, British Columbia, is an active member of the Society for Amateur Scientists (SAS) who has long been interested in a full time science position.

Citizen Science Comes of Age

Science writer Chandra Shekhar has written a nicely crafted article about citizen science for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. In "Citizen science comes of age" (4 December 2006), Shekhar begins by asking, "Who says you need a Ph.D. to do science?"

Geology Update from Hawaii's Mauna Loa

A previous news article in The Citizen Scientist described the work of geologists Julie Herrick and Erika Ronchin high on the slopes of Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the world's largest volcano

Wanted: Contributions to The Citizen Scientist

The Citizen Scientist aims to be the best possible source of information, news and projects for amateur scientists. We are looking for contributors to help us reach this goal. Our staff is part time and tiny, so we are unable to engage in lengthy corres- pondence about your sub- missions. But we will do our best to publish your best. Please scan what follows. Maybe you can help us advance the cause of citizen science! More.
Updated 23 December 2005

Shawn Carlson listens as students Dina Evangelism and Andrew Dow explain at an SAS meeting how they discovered that calcite crystals grow in a fractal pattern. Dr. Carlson, a physicist and MacArthur Fellow, is the creator of LABRats.

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Proceedings of the SAS Virtual Conference on Informal Science Education Spring 2004

3rd Annual Citizen Science Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 13-16, 2005.
Alaska Bans Home Cyclotron
Growing Lava Delta Collapses into the Pacific off Hawai'i's East Coast
Math Whiz Wins $100,000 Grand prize in 2005-06 Siemens Westinghouse Competition
Papalotzin Follows the Journey of the Monarchs
Elmer A. Sperry Inducted into Electronic Design Engineering Hall of Fame
William Lear Inducted into Electronic Design Engineering Hall of Fame
Beware SAS E-Mail Hoax
Wilma Causes a Hurricane Model "Collapse"
NASA and the Spaceward Foundation Hold Space Elevator Challenge
The LiftPort Group Wants Your Input
Amateur Scientist is a Cactus Specialist
Sarah Mims Wins Popular Mechanics 2005 Breakthrough Award
Nova Program About Einstein Features Famous Amateur Scientist
SPECIAL ALERT: LABRats Supply Bureau Opens, All SAS Members Welcome!
Hurricane Rita News
1,000 Comets: A Tribute to Dedicated Amateurs
Are you Ready for Lead-Free Solder?
The Society for Amateur Scientists Makes The Boston Globe--Again!
The Restless Sun
SPECIAL ALERT: LABRats Supply Bureau Opens, All SAS Members Welcome!
Hurricane News from Deep in Mississippi
Shawn Carlson and LABRats Make The Boston Globe
JPL Visualizations of New Orleans for Various Flood Depths
National Hurricane Center a Vital Resource
Amateur Radio Operators Provide Emergency Communications
Chasing Dust Devils for Science
Amateur Scientist Leland Locke and the Inca Khipu
Jack Kilby, Inventor of the Integrated Circuit, 1923 -2005
Spanish Amateur Astronomer Sets Her Sight on the Sun
Ice on Mars
Shawn Carlson Updates the LABRats Program
Instant Maps for Storm Chasers--and Everyone Els
What's Happening with Linux?
Microsoft® Announces Successor to Windows® XP Operating System
Number 100 of Ralph Coppola's "Wanderings" Column
Shawn Carlson is Looking for Collaborators
NASA's Deep Impact Mission Succeeds
NASA's Rover Captures a Martian Sunset
NASA's Deep Impact Mission Takes Aim at Comet Tempel 1 on the Fourth of July
Albert Einstein and Amateur Science
Students Use Shampoo to Make Self-Sterilizing Paint
Geological Science on Hawaii's Mauna Loa
Return of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
SODIS: Inexpensive Water Disinfection for Developing Countries
Dust Devils on Mars
Earth's 2029 Encounter with Asteroid 2004 MN4
Remembering Jim Scanlon
NASA Spacecraft on Track to Strike Comet Tempel 1 on the Fourth of July
Reggie Smith Photographs Asian Dust
In the News: Society for Amateur Scientists Member Forrest Mims makes major Progress on Major Air Pollution Issues
Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) 2005 Conference
Join Einstein@home and Help Find Pulsars
MIT Students Trick a Computer Science Conference
Monarch Butterflies in Trouble
Wrapping Up the Third Citizen Science Conference Photo Album (Page 5)
The Venus Transit Across the Sun Reduced Sunlight at Earth
The Curious Solar Eclipse of 8 April 2005
More from the Third Citizen Science Conference Photo Album (Page 4)
California Tornado
Do You Live in an Earthquake Hazard Region?
More from the Third Citizen Science Conference Photo Album (Page 3)
Pluto was Discovered by an Amateur Astronomer 75 Years Ago
Announcements of Interest to Citizen Scientists
Top Prize Awarded for "Citizen" Science
Snow on Hawaii!
Third Citizen Science Conference Photo Album (Page 2)
Astrophysics Workshop for Amateur Astronomers
Avocational Paleoichnologist Ray Stanford Authors Scientific Paper
Third Citizen Science Conference Photo Album
Credit where credit is due
Report from the Third Citizen Science Conference
Dr. Paul B. MacCready Delivered the Winfree Lecture at the 2005 Citizen Science Conference
Tyler MacCready's Walkalong Glider
Mark Streitman Kept the Presentations Moving at the SAS Annual Meeting
News from Nepal
MAST in the News
The Society for Amateur Scientists attends NASA's Earth Explorers Institute
Amateur photographs the lunar eclipse
Elapsed time series of the lunar eclipse
The electrifying science of Sam Barros
Mount St. Helens from space
Radio astronomy enthusiasts rescue Stanford radio telescope site
Mauna Loa volcano watch
Help Choose the Next Benjamin Franklin Citizen Science Award Winner
Dodging bullets at Cape Canaveral
When engineering fails science
Shawn Carlson in The Washington Dispatch
Emhart/NASA Tech Briefs Design Contest announced
Woman struck by meteorite
Amateur astronomers help NASA find killer asteroids
We Invite You to Participate in the Nomination of Our Franklin Citizen Science Award Winner
A Mars rover update
The Olympics from space
Isaac Newton goes online
Citizen science in Maine
Tracking pollen grains and mold spores
"Amateur scientist" passes 10,000 hits on google
Measuring haze for GLOBE
Doing science with GLOBE
Still more news about GLOBE
Citizen monitoring of alpine plants
NASA launches Aura
Wanted: Citizen weather observers
The Sun up close
Amateur solar observers
The SIDs program needs observers
Citizen volunteers in Mexico City air quality studies
Diving for science
The rings of Saturn up close
Citizen science news wanted
First private flight to the edge of space
Sahara dust brings citizen science opportunities
Images of the transit of Venus from Nepal and Rome
Historic archaeological find in Utah
Spectacular example of Citizen Science Challenge 3: Capturing storm images using cameras, weather radars and satellites
The facts about birding
Announcing Citizen Science Challenge 3: Capturing storm images using cameras, weather radars and satellites
Professional scientist doubles as amateur paleontologist
The 2004 Citizen Science Conference
The historic 2004 transit of Venus
Amateur ornithologists solve missing bird mystery
Invasive species in the news
England's "Big Bug Count"
The transit of Venus occurs Tuesday, 8 June 2004
Citizen finds "extinct" butterfly
Announcing Citizen Science Challenge 2: Monitoring and Studying Aircraft Contrails
Amateurs break the space barrier!
Amateur birders assist the pros
Amateur ornithologist Chris Hollister
SAS Hosts "Virtual" Conference on Informal Science Education
New asteroid named in honor of Lisa Glukhovsky
SAS Announces its Science For Life Partner Program
Amateur ornithologist monitors wood duck nest box using tiny video cameras
Announcing Citizen Science Challenge 1: Solar Warming of Asphalt Roads
Amateur paleontologist makes significant discoveries in New Jersey
Amateur science is booming among U.S. middle and high school students
Dust coats the Mars rovers
Tornado chaser featured in National Geographic
Amateur naturalists track butterfly decline in Great Britain
David Levy unfazed when mountain lion threat moves star party
Opportunity leaves Eagle Crater
Smoke from fires in Southeast Asia crosses the Pacific Ocean
Magnetic bacteria discoveries
Amateur Science Loses a Good Friend
U.S. House of Representatives passes bill to reward amateur asteroid hunters
Asteroid 2004 FH passes within three Earth diameters of Earth's surface
A solar eclipse from Mars
Amateur meteorologists photograph massive African dust storm
The SAS at Super Science Saturday
A Tale of Two Conferences
Citizen Scientists and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
SAS on CNN
SAS McCarthy Observatory Discovers Three New Asteroids
LABRats: A New SAS Program to Teach Science, Self-esteem, and the Virtues of Community Service
   
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