Links to Pollinator Citizen Science Projects run by us
Online Citizen Science Projects
(Run by us and suitable for all skill levels)
X-Polli:Nation
X-Polli:Nation (pronounced Cross-Pollination) is a citizen science project that encourages people, especially younger children, to create, maintain and monitor pollinator-friendly habitats. You can get information about how to create pollinator-friendly habitats, take part in pollinator surveys, learn about pollinators and how to spread the word about their conservation. X-Polli:Nation also researches how Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies can work alongside human intelligence in monitoring our environment, how people and AI can help each other in science learning, and how outdoor learning and citizen science can be incorporated into our primary and secondary schools.
Planting for Pollinators
We are a pollinator citizen science project collecting data on pollinator abundance and feeding behaviours. We are launching this site with a focus on bumblebee species and hope to extend out tools and surveys to flower beetles and butterflies during the spring and summer of 2021.
We have developed new technologies to benefit citizen scientists and nature conservation programmes Computer scientists and ecologists from the Open University, Aberdeen University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences are collaborating with a wide range of partners on retaining the best of the decade-old BeeWatch citizen science project and developing and updating it further.
Several computer science technologies have been developed for Planting for Pollinators: Natural Language Generation and Automated Image Recognition alongside a visual "key" help you to become familiar with bumblebee identification. Your data generates a better collective understanding of the distribution of these important pollinators within our country and their feeding habits.You can browse our citizen science data through our innovative pollinator-friendly plant recommender, or on a map showing where different species have been recorded.
iSpot Nature
iSpot is a citizen science project run by The Open University (OU) that was developed to help anyone learn about and engage with nature while sharing and building their wildlife
identification skills. Supported by a diverse and growing online community of nature enthusiasts, iSpot has grown into a database of over 1.5 million posted photos. There are hundreds of thousands of observations of species from a wide range of groups,
including amphibians and reptiles; birds; fungi and lichens; fish; invertebrates; mammals; plants and other organisms. iSpot is free and easy to use: share your
interest with a friendly community, look at the latest spots, take photos of
wildlife, add your own observations, join in discussions and get help
identifying what you've seen.
Online Citizen Science Projects
(Run by us and suitable for all skill levels)
X-Polli:Nation
X-Polli:Nation (pronounced Cross-Pollination) is a citizen science project that encourages people, especially younger children, to create, maintain and monitor pollinator-friendly habitats. You can get information about how to create pollinator-friendly habitats, take part in pollinator surveys, learn about pollinators and how to spread the word about their conservation. X-Polli:Nation also researches how Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies can work alongside human intelligence in monitoring our environment, how people and AI can help each other in science learning, and how outdoor learning and citizen science can be incorporated into our primary and secondary schools.
Planting for Pollinators
We are a pollinator citizen science project collecting data on pollinator abundance and feeding behaviours. We are launching this site with a focus on bumblebee species and hope to extend out tools and surveys to flower beetles and butterflies during the spring and summer of 2021.
We have developed new technologies to benefit citizen scientists and nature conservation programmes Computer scientists and ecologists from the Open University, Aberdeen University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences are collaborating with a wide range of partners on retaining the best of the decade-old BeeWatch citizen science project and developing and updating it further.
Several computer science technologies have been developed for Planting for Pollinators: Natural Language Generation and Automated Image Recognition alongside a visual "key" help you to become familiar with bumblebee identification. Your data generates a better collective understanding of the distribution of these important pollinators within our country and their feeding habits.You can browse our citizen science data through our innovative pollinator-friendly plant recommender, or on a map showing where different species have been recorded.
iSpot Nature
iSpot is a citizen science project run by The Open University (OU) that was developed to help anyone learn about and engage with nature while sharing and building their wildlife
identification skills. Supported by a diverse and growing online community of nature enthusiasts, iSpot has grown into a database of over 1.5 million posted photos. There are hundreds of thousands of observations of species from a wide range of groups,
including amphibians and reptiles; birds; fungi and lichens; fish; invertebrates; mammals; plants and other organisms. iSpot is free and easy to use: share your
interest with a friendly community, look at the latest spots, take photos of
wildlife, add your own observations, join in discussions and get help
identifying what you've seen.