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BioBlitz

Type: Website
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Description: A Biodiversity Blitz, or BioBlitz, is a rapid assessment of what lives in a particular area at a given point in time. Biodiversity, the variety of...
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Chicago Wildnerness

A Regional Nature Reserve
Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: Chicago Wilderness is a regional nature reserve that includes more than 225,000 acres of protected natural areas. It stretches from southeastern...
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Citzen Science

Type: Website
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Description: From backyards to remote mountain summits, anyone can contribute to VINS research when they become a citizen scientist. Data from the projects...
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Data360

"Clarify the Current Condition"
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Description:  Data360 is a non-profit organization helping people and organizations gain clarity about issues that are of importance to them. Issues can be...
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FrogwatchUSA

Type: Website
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Description: Frogwatch USA is a frog and toad monitoring program that gives YOU the opportunity to help scientists conserve amphibians! With as little as 20...
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GLOBE

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and...
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Grear Backyard Bird Count

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: In the annual Great Backyard Bird Count, participants of all ages count birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the...
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in.fondo.al.mar

brings the poisons afloat
Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description:  in.fondo.al.mar (under the sea) is an info-visualisation project about a series of sinkings and incidents in the Mediterranean Sea,...
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Opensecrets

center for responsive politics
Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: There is apparently a momentum emerging around opening up publicly relevant datasets: The nonpartisan watchdog group OpenSecrets, Center for...
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Project FeederWatch

Type: Website
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Description: Project FeederWatch is a winter-long survey of birds that visit feeders anywhere in the...
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The Owl Project

Type: Website
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Description:  The Owl Project is a community space for interacting with owls in their natural habitat. Use your cell phone to call owls and listen to their...
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Who is Sick

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: A Google Maps mashup that provides current & local sickness information to the public, without the need of dealing with hospitals or doctors....
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