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Become a Splatter Spotter. Join Project Splatter and help us reduce wildlife road casualties in the United Kingdom (UK) using your data.

Project Splatter collects UK wildlife road casualty data via Twitter and Facebook with an aim to identify roadkill hotspots. By collating your data across the country we can identify roadkill 'hotspots' for future mitigation projects and help preserve our wildlife.

The Roadkill Project was launched in 2009 to help determine how significant the threat of roadkill mortality is to Tasmanian devil populations, particularly those populations already decimated by Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD). The Roadkill Project aims to continue to monitor the threat of roadkill mortality and the spread of DFTD and to try to reduce Tasmanian devil roadkill. Involving the public helps to greatly extend our limited resources.

Anyone who is using Tasmanian roads can help by reporting any Tasmanian devil roadkill they see.

As the earth thaws and spring rains drench New Hampshire, thousands of salamanders, frogs, and toads make their way to vernal pools to breed. Many are killed when their journeys take them across busy roads. Each spring, AVEO trains volunteers to serve as Salamander Crossing Guards at amphibian road crossings throughout the Monadnock Region. Volunteers count migrating amphibians and safely usher the animals across roads during one or more “Big Nights.”

What should we do about climate change?

Somehow we have to answer this question. You can help. The Climate CoLab seeks to harness the collective intelligence of contributors from all over the world to develop solutions to the problem of global climate change.

In this online global forum, people can create, analyze and select detailed proposals outlining the actions they believe should be taken to address climate change.

The Reinforcers is a new crowdsourcing project sponsored by [ ] to encourage the public to take an active role in taking care of their local infrastructures supported by concrete (bridges, parking garages, tunnels, overpasses, etc).
[blurb about corrosive steel, etc...why this effort is important; how it can help] [links to existing educational materials and activities.]

Simple upload pictures to report suspicious-looking concrete structures in your neighborhood to help build a map to identify structures in need of review.

Your reports will be shared with the [xyz] who will review each picture and report those of concern to [ xyy] for further analysis.

The Acoustics Research Centre at the University of Salford is building a sound map of the world as part of a new study into how sounds in our everyday environment make us feel. We need your help!

We’re asking people across the world to use our new iOS app on their iPhones or iPads (or any recorder) to record short clips from different sound environments, or "soundscapes"--anything from the inside of a family car to a busy shopping centre. Then we ask volunteers to comment on their soundscapes and upload them to our virtual soundscape map.

Recordings and responses will be analyaed by acoustic scientists, and significant findings will be reported on this website.

Sound Around You aims to raise awareness of how our soundscape influences us, and could have far reaching implications for professions and social groups ranging from urban planners to house buyers.