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Top 20 Citizen Science Projects of 2020

Citizen science has seen significant growth during the pandemic. In 2020, these were the top projects on SciStarter.org.

Credit: Snapshot Serengeti and the University of Minnesota Lion Center

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Citizen Science Salon is a partnership between Discover and SciStarter.org.

As the pandemic reshapes learning and pushes some toward new hobbies and passions, citizen science is seeing significant growth. Thanks to nearly 100,000 registered SciStarter users and many other visitors in 2020 alone, we collectively helped scientists accelerate research about COVID-19, monitor light pollution and climate change, catalogue biodiversity all around the globe and understand our world in so many other ways.

In 2020, registered SciStarter users contributed data more than three million times to SciStarter Affiliate projects.

Below we've curated this year's most popular projects. We've also cast a spotlight on five projects that made our annual top 20 stats for the first time this year. All of these projects and more can be found using SciStarter's Project Finder.

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