Citizens and Scientists Team Up for Community Health
The MDI Biological Laboratory partners with citizen scientists, students and teachers on hundreds of data-collection projects around the globe, from Bar Harbor to the Bahamas, Spain and beyond.
Continue ReadingUNE, MDIBL Team up for Drinking Water Initiative
Collaboration with “Legacy Scholars” builds on the Laboratory’s “All About Arsenic” citizen science initiative
Continue ReadingMDI Biological Laboratory to Host Environmental Data Fellow
The old adage says that many hands make light work – and during the busy MDIBL summers, we’re thankful for all the hands we can get! The whole community is excited that MDIBL has been selected as a host site 2022 for an Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) Data Management Fellowship. The EDI’s mission focuses on...
Continue ReadingFrom Debris to Art
Original artwork completed by eco-artist Mariah Reading during MDI Biological Laboratory’s From Debris to Art project, is now on display at the Maine Center for Biomedical Innovation. While the campus remains closed to the public for COVID-19 safety precautions, the exhibition can be viewed in a virtual gallery on our project website. As soon as...
Continue ReadingFrom Debris to Art with Nature Links for Lifelong Learning
Nature Links for Lifelong Learning is a Blue Hill-based nonprofit offering continuing education opportunities for young adults with intellectual disabilities. For one of their classes, students took part in this year’s Art Meets Science project, “From Debris to Art,” with the help of their teacher Maddy Johnson. This post is slightly adapted from a piece...
Continue ReadingAnecdata Interns Bring Fresh Thinking
Elana Fortin is a senior Visual Communication Design major at Champlain College. In addition to her role at Anecdata, she is a digital communications intern at the Island Institute and a web designer in Champlain College’s marketing department. Turam Purty is working towards developing open-source tools and technologies to help empower people and...
Continue ReadingMDI Biological Laboratory Gets Children Involved Through Citizen Science
So far, schools in the program have collected 1,200 samples and 15% of them have had higher than recommended levels of arsenic (the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety level is 10 parts per billion). “All About Arsenic” aims to build scientific literacy and interest, and to show school-aged children that as citizen scientists they can...
Continue ReadingAnecdata.org: Citizen Science keeps us connected while we’re apart
MDI Biological Laboratory has moved quickly to continue providing opportunities for educational experiences and public engagement in scientific research. Anecdata.org, our online citizen science platform, is just one way we’re increasing our connectivity with like-minded people while we all need to stay apart to slow the spread of COVID-19. Based out of our Community Lab,...
Continue ReadingNext Generation Citizen Science Using Anecdata.org
This guest post on citizen science by Jane Disney, Duncan Bailey, Anna Farrell and Ashley Taylor is excerpted from an article that originally appeared in the Maine Policy Review.
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