{"id":9261,"date":"2014-11-17T01:34:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T06:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9261"},"modified":"2014-11-17T01:34:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T06:34:47","slug":"video-citizen-science-can-science-harness-the-power-of-7-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9261","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8220;Citizen Science \u2013 Can Science Harness the Power of 7 Billion?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute<\/a> posts this video of a discussion at the SETICon2 \u00a0event last summer of the potential of citizen science. Here is a the list of the panelists (See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2GmwfNlwhEc\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube caption<\/a> for the full backgrounds):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Debra Ann Fischer\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Debra Fischer is a professor of Astronomy at Yale University. Her research is centered on the detection and characterization of planets orbiting other stars.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jon Richards<\/strong> &#8211; works on the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) software and hardware control systems.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alex Hall<\/strong> &#8211; now the Senior Director of the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, a private race to the moon designed to enable commercial exploration of space while engaging the global public, Hall brings a wealth of experience in both the private and public sectors in USA and Europe to the X PRIZE Foundation. As the co-founder and former CEO of Airship Ventures\u00a0&#8230;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dan Werthimer<\/strong> &#8211; is co-founder and chief scientist of the SETI@home project and directs other UC Berkeley SETI searches at radio, infrared and visible wavelengths, including the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ariel Waldman\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; founder of <a href=\"Spacehack.org\" target=\"_blank\">Spacehack.org<\/a>, a directory of ways to participate in space exploration, and the global coordinator of Science Hack Day&#8230;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Moderator<\/em>:\u00a0<strong>Dane Glasgow<\/strong>, SETI Institute Trustee is a Vice President of Global Product Management at Ebay, and former Director of Program Management at Microsoft Live Search.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2GmwfNlwhEc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SETI Institute posts this video of a discussion at the SETICon2 \u00a0event last summer of the potential of citizen science. Here is a the list of the panelists (See the Youtube caption for the full backgrounds): Debra Ann Fischer\u00a0&#8211; Debra Fischer is a professor of Astronomy at Yale University. Her research is centered on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9261\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: &#8220;Citizen Science \u2013 Can Science Harness the Power of 7 Billion?&#8221;<\/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":[3,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-education","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2pn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7526,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7526","url_meta":{"origin":9261,"position":0},"title":"Video: Intro. astronomy class on exoplanets, solar system origin, &#038; formation","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Bruce Betts of the Planetary Society continues with his on line\u00a0introductory\u00a0astronomy course. 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