This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
This is a course for anyone who wants to get involved in developing a citizen science research project.
Using off the shelf equipment, and free software, course participants will learn how to go from constructing a research question, to analyzing data, to communicating their findings.
This course follows the scientific method through a series of questions. In addressing these questions participants will develop and run their project.
This course seeks to both increase the scientific literacy skills of its participants, as well as increase their level of civic engagement through science.
At this point in a project you will also begin using other peoples' theories and models in framing your research. This holds true whether you use an established theory, such as using evolutionary theory in an ecology project, or if you modify an existing theory, such as using theories describing the spread of diseases to help describe the spread of ideas through a connected population. In either case you will want to justify what existing theoretical models you will be using.
Examples of theoretical models with regards to a topic such as atmospheric chemistry could be straightforward, such as the positive relationship between local air temperature and carbon dioxide concentration, or they could be be more indirect, such as the chemical pathways which describe how normally inert CFCs can break down ozone in the upper atmosphere.
What theoretical models will you be using directly, or in a modified form, for your project?
So, we decided that the UV LED's would be the best option for the traps. Therefore, we should buy in bulk. Found one site (Levi had said about 1000?), that is farely cheap.
Yay? Nay?
Unfortunately the shipping time is about 39 days from China.
We'll go with the same model, but from a closer distribution point:
1000 of these http://www.taydaelectronics.com/leds/round-leds/5mm-leds/uv-ultraviolet/led-uv-5mm-ultraviolet.html
400 of these http://www.bestbyte.net/merchant/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=BB&Product_Code=BALCMA2032&Category_Code=BACO
Ahh...ha. Good catch. Yeah... Let's go with those.
