Citizen Science Day is April 14.

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew" - Marshall McLuhan.

To understand and protect California's unique natural resources, we need all the information we can gather across many different disciplines. Citizen science is one crowd-sourced approach to gathering that information. Find an activity and a discipline you're excited about! The collaborations that can occur through citizen science enable investigation at time and spacial scales that a single scientist could never dream of achieving on their own. The California Naturalist Program has incorporated citizen science in the training curriculum from the program's conception. One of our program's primary goals is to increase participation in resource conservation and community science projects throughout the state. It is not a leap to imagine how a scientifically informed public might also inform natural resource policy makers. Each partnering organization offering a California Naturalist certification course adopts a class citizen science project so that each course participant gains experience in data collection and entry. Course participants also get introduced to the interactive, on-line iNaturalist.org tool, where users can record observations from nature, develop on-line species lists and journals, meet other naturalists, contribute to research-grade observations. Find a project near you!

• California Naturalist Community Science Database 
• SciStarter Events