Citizen Science Links
Piedmont Wildlife Center, Raleigh
Visit our webpage to become a box turtle citizen scientist!
http://www.piedmontwildlifecenter.org/citizen-scientists/
Project Noah, Worldwide, smart phone App
Project Noah is a worldwide citizen science based project that attempts to documents all different plant and animal species. All you have to do is download the app on any smart phone, take a picture and log it in on the app. If you can’t ID a species, you can ask for help. A great way to get involved and learn about the species that are all around you!
Piedmont Wildlife Center has created a mission on Project Noah. If you are at Leigh Farm Park and document any plants or animals, make sure you tag our mission. To do that, find the mission and instructions at: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/14932195
Wild Life of Our Homes, North Carolina State University
Request a kit to take samples of the microbes in your home. You never know what microscopic 
organisms might be lurking behind your sink or above your door!
http://www.yourwildlife.org/projects/wild-life-of-our-homes/
Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh
Several citizen scientists projects with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences including a box turtle project, watching nests, water stick habitat monitoring, weather monitoring, and monitoring macroinvertebrates at Prairie Ridge Ecostation.
http://naturalsciences.org/research-collections/citizen-science
Newest citizen science project at the museum:
Wading for Water Sticks is a citizen science project aimed at determining the habitat preferences and distributions of three water stick species in North Carolina. As a participant, you’ll join a network of North Carolina citizen scientists who sample bodies of water throughout the state to help survey our water sticks, large aquatic insects that live in a variety of habitats, and answer questions about their biology.
School of Ants, North Carolina State University
Scientists at North Carolina State University started School of 
Ants in order to collect information from all over the world about ants and where they live. Go to this website to see how you can participate in the School of Ants project!
Firefly Watch, Boston Museum of Science
Go to this website to find out how your yard measures up as firefly habitat AND participate in this research project, adding to their database of firefly populations across the US.
https://www.mos.org/fireflywatch/
Lost Lady Bug Project, Cornell University
Go to this website to find out how you can take photographs of the ladybugs you see and send them to the 
scientists!
Project FeederWatch, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Project FeederWatch is a winter-long survey of birds that visit feeders at backyards, nature centers, community areas and other locations in North America.
Winter-only. Cost: $15 (includes a research kit)
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/Overview/over_index.html
Science Starter
Here is a website with more than a hundred citizen science projects, ranging from nationwide studies to local inquiries.