Citizen Science Award
Make your vote
The winner of the Citizen Science Award is being decided by a public vote – select your favourite project by clicking on the vote button below. Voting will close on the 4 October.
BSBI Atlas 2020
Atlas 2020 has been a landmark project and will be a landmark publication for understanding the state of the Scottish flora. Consisting of 3.3 million records of wild plants collected by hundreds of volunteers across a 19-year period, it demonstrates how citizen scientists can pioneer evidence-based conservation in our time.
MammalWeb
MammalWeb engages people, helping to connect them to the nature around them; empowers organisations, helping them to connect with their people; and builds knowledge of mammals far more effectively than the chance sightings that make up the majority of mammal data. Scottish data provide a rich resource for Scottish conservation.
Beachwatch
Beachwatch is the Marine Conservation Society’s beach cleaning and litter surveying citizen science project. Running for 29 years it involves thousands of volunteers across Scotland and the rest of the UK collecting vital beach litter data to drive change at public, business and government level to reduce litter entering our ocean.
Seabird Watch
Seabird Watch is a marine conservation project at the University of Oxford and University College Cork. We harness technology like timelapse cameras and drones to disentangle local and regional threats. To process the volume of images collected, we work with many citizen scientists and rapidly translate the evidence on seabird population health for decision-makers.
UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme
The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) has been tracking the fortunes of butterfly populations across the UK for over four decades. Volunteer citizen scientists are at the heart of this effort, counting the butterflies each week of the summer at almost 150 locations in Scotland.
Shorewatch
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation's Shorewatch Project sees citizen scientists’ cetacean surveys to help make sure that Scotland remains an amazing place to see whales, dolphins and porpoises. They've looked out for whales and dolphins more than 79,000 times, recording 18 different species! Their efforts contribute directly to the protection of these amazing creatures.