How YOU Can Contribute to Scientific Research and Make a Difference...Anytime, Anywhere. 

On March 1 via Zoom, join the LBIF and Science Saturday co-host Darlene Cavalier as she discusses SciStarter.org (a popular citizen science portal and research platform connecting millions of people to real science they can do) and how we can all get involved in citizen science in easy and accessible ways.

Darlene is a professor of practice at Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society, a Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at ASU, and an Honorary Fellow at Southern Denmark University. Darlene is the founder of SciStarter, founder of ScienceCheerleaders.org (a non profit organization comprised of current and former NFL, NBA and college cheerleaders pursuing STEM careers), cofounder of ECAST: Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology and cofounder of ScienceNearMe.org. She is a Fellow at National Geographic, a member of NOAA's Science Advisory Board, a past member of the EPA's National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, appointed to the National Academy of Sciences "Designing Citizen Science to Support Science Learning" committee and named co-chair of America 250's Innovation, Science, and Entrepreneurism Advisory Council.  She is the co-editor of "The Rightful Place of Science: Citizen Science," author of "The Science of Cheerleading,"  and co-author of the Field Guide to Citizen Science (Timber Press) and co-author of "The Educator's Guide To Citizen Science" (Harvard Education Press 2026).