One sweltering week last July, the UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Center took researchers and officials from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) on a reality tour of some of California’s most polluted communities. On the tour, scientists saw up close the environmental health issues residents faced — a glass factory next to an elementary school, an oil and gas facility in a residential neighborhood, a formerly agricultural community transformed into an industrial site through
Citizen science is when the public participates in scientific research. Citizen scientists can work independently or collaborate with professional scientists by collecting, reporting or analyzing data.
There are thousands of citizen science research projects going on around the world. These projects encompass a range of topics and disciplines from medicine, ecology and genetics to astronomy, engineering, psychology and more.
Learn which community groups, government agencies and non-profits are on the Community Stakeholder Advisory Committee at the UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Center.
