2026 Summer of Community Science Data Collection
Please fill out this form: June 25th - 30th / July 27th-July 31st / August 26th-31st Reach out directly to ambassadors@theclimateinitiative.org if there are files you can not upload in this form or if you have any questions. If you are emailing us, please use the subject line "Summer of Community Science." For the second page of questions- the questions are OPTIONAL, but highly encouraged. You are welcome to answer whichever of those questions are interesting to you. Those answers will be used to help bring future participants into the program and get more teens and adults to participate in action and research! We will be sharing answers from the second page on TCI's Substack account anonymously as part of our larger report out.
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Where are you located? (City/State)
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Which month are you submitting data for?
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July
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Weblink to your project
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Weblink to your second project (if applicable)
Weblink to your third project (if applicable)
Please provide a brief explanation of what your first project is, and what you are researching. (Only do this the first time that you are submitting data for a project, you do not need to complete this the second and third time you submit data)
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Please provide a brief explanation of what your second project is, and what you are researching. (Only do this the first time that you are submitting data for a project, you do not need to complete this the second and third time you submit data)
Please provide a brief explanation of what your third project is, and what you are researching. (Only do this the first time that you are submitting data for a project, you do not need to complete this the second and third time you submit data)
What type of research are you doing?
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Measuring Populations: Taking photos or videos of animals, plants or fungi and contributing to research that tracks populations
Sorting Data: Going through photos, videos or audio files that researchers collected and helping sort the data to the specifications of the researchers (If you are doing research that trains AI and you are checking the classifications, you can click this as well)
Testing soil, water or air quality
Other
What type of research are you doing? Please mark all that apply if you are doing more than one type of project
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Measuring Populations: Taking photos or videos of animals, plants or fungi and contributing to research that tracks populations
Sorting Data: Going through photos, videos or audio files that researchers collected and helping sort the data to the specifications of the researchers (If you are doing research that trains AI and you are checking the classifications, you can click this as well)
Testing soil, water or air quality
Digitizing historical data
Photographing the environment (EX: Bodies of water or night sky or anything similar where you are photographing the environment and uploading those photos to the project)
Other
If other, please explain what here
If you have a dashboard that keeps tack of how much research you have contributed. Please upload screenshots of your dashboard here. (Most people will, however some will not)
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If you are sorting data collected by researchers, please write the number of files you have sorted the past month
If you are taking photos of species and submitting them to a larger data collection please write the number of photos/videos you have submitted in the past month
If you are sampling and testing soil, air and water quality, please share the number of samples you tested and submitted in the past month,
Share photos of some of the data you have collected or sorted! These photos will go on our Substack and Instagram as we do report outs about the work that you have done. You are welcome to share photos of species you are documenting, photos you are sorting, samples you have collected, and of course if you'd like, photos of you doing research. Please be sure to have signed our photo release document if you want to include photos of your face. If you are not submitting photos of your face, you do not need to sign the photo release document.
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OPTIONAL: Provide a brief sentence or two description of your project, what overall goal is and what you are doing to support that goal. Why did this project stand out to you? Why did you want to sign up for it?
OPTIONAL: There are many different types of climate action that exist- why were you interested in participating in climate research? And what type of person do you think would also be a good fit for this type of action? (Our goal is that other folks might read your answers and say "hey that sounds like me" so they know this works for someone like them)
OPTIONAL: What has been your favorite/most rewarding part of this process?
OPTIONAL: What had your participation looked like? What is it that you are doing to contribute to your research project and how often are you doing it? (Our goal with this question is that other folks that are on the fence because of time and energy commitments can see that its easy to do and can be incorporated easily into their life)
OPTIONAL: How do you feel about the work you have done so far? Does it make you feel better to be involved directly in climate action? How would you say it has helped or alleviated your climate anxiety?
OPTIONAL: If you had to recommend this type of action to someone, who would you recommend it to? (In your answer please format it like this "I am [state what you are doing] I would say that [students/people who spend a lot of time indoors or outdoors/ people who like to take photos/ people who don't have a lot of time but want to get involved, any criteria you think someone could self identify with] would be a good fit to participate in this type of research"
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