citize science application

Are you headed to the lake today? A freshman computer science major won a competition at UC Davis for the best app proposal with his idea for the new smartphone app, “Citizen Science Tahoe”. The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center jumped on his proposal and launched the new app which may help scientists collect observational data from Lake Tahoe that can be shared in a database allowing scientists to have a better understanding of varying conditions in locations all around the lake.

If you would like to be a citizen scientist, you can download the app at www.citizensciencetahoe.org and start recording your observations. With the Citizen Science Application, the location of the observation, along with the date and time is recorded, and comments and photos can be added and send to the database providing more information on everything you may see at the beach. By submitting your observations more information can be collected to study the lake including information about the water quality, invasive species, algae, and the local wildlife.