{"id":6535,"date":"2014-02-17T16:24:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T16:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6535"},"modified":"2014-02-17T16:24:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T16:24:56","slug":"zooniverse-passes-one-million-citizen-science-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6535","title":{"rendered":"Zooniverse passes one million citizen science volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zooniverse<\/a>\u00a0on gaining their one millionth volunteer for their many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\" target=\"_blank\">citizen science projects<\/a> after starting seven years ago :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zooniverse.org\/2014\/02\/14\/one-million-volunteers\/\" target=\"_d\">One Million Volunteers &#8211; Zooniverse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.zooniverse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">This map<\/a> shows the global distribution of volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of scientific publications resulting from Zooniverse activities: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/publications\" target=\"_d\">Zooniverse Publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A posting on the Planet Hunters blog about the milestone :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.planethunters.org\/2014\/02\/17\/15-percent-of-1-million\/\" target=\"_d\">15 percent of 1 million &#8211; Planet Hunters<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This accomplishment is yours too. Our estimate is over 280,000 people world wide (unregistered and registered volunteers) have participated in Planet Hunters. 150,000 registered Zooniverse volunteers have classified at least one Planet Hunters light curve. Roughly 15% of the 1 million registered Zooniverse volunteers have contributed to Planet Hunters science. That\u2019s a huge representation!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Zooniverse\u00a0on gaining their one millionth volunteer for their many citizen science projects after starting seven years ago :\u00a0One Million Volunteers &#8211; Zooniverse This map shows the global distribution of volunteers. Here&#8217;s a list of scientific publications resulting from Zooniverse activities: \u00a0Zooniverse Publications. A posting on the Planet Hunters blog about the milestone :\u00a015 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zooniverse passes one million citizen science volunteers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-science-and-technology","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1Hp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2177,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2177","url_meta":{"origin":6535,"position":0},"title":"Looking in on the Zooniverse citizen science space projects","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A scan of of what's happening with the space related citizen science projects at Zooniverse: Galaxy Zoo - To understand how galaxies formed participants help to classify them according to their shapes. 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