Citizen Science projects allow anyone who is interested to become proactively involved in the process of science by participating in large-scale scientific research.

By contributing your time, collecting data, and participating in other ways, you can help researchers who are trying to cure diseases, study global weather and discover and map outer space. 

Post a response to this task and introduce yourself to other peers who are beginning their journey towards becoming citizen scientists. As part of your response can you:

• Introduce yourself
• Describe a project that has benifitted from the support of citizen scientists
• Share what it is that has motivated you to begin this journey.