There are a few excellent resources for locating citizen science projects, covering topics from water sampling to galaxy classification. These include scistarter.com and citsci.org.
This page contains a list of all current and recent citizen science project that have microbiology as a primary component. Please comment with any additional suggestions!
- Project MERCCURI (Microbes in Spaaaace!)
- Wild Life of Our Homes
- Home Microbiome Study
- Pilot Citizen Science Study of Distributed Domestic Water Heater Microbiology Diversity
- Aquarium Sampling Study
- Bioweathermap
- uBiome
- American Gut project
- Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project
- Beach Environmental Assessment, Communication, and Health (BEACH) Project
- State of the Oyster
How ’bout da Wolbachia project at discover.mbl.edu
Thanks! Added to the list.