Armed with smartphones, test strips, and sample containers, citizen scientists are testing water for nitrates in Iowa, and assisting researchers in the process.
Bassmaster Elite Series Pro Brandon Card counts down the Top 6 smartphone apps every angler should have ready to go.
Google is partnering with the University of Michigan’s Flint and Ann Arbor campuses to launch a smartphone app that could help residents of Flint, Michigan, affected by the water crisis there. Hopes are that the app can...
A new mobile app developed with help from the Penn State University Extension may make citizen scientists out of people interested in protecting the health of streams in the state. The app is based on the First...
A startup company based in Paris has released a real-time map of air pollution worldwide, according to Grist. The map is based on data gathered from more than 11,000 environmental monitoring stations all over the planet. Plume...
An app developed at the University of California, Davis’ Tahoe Environmental Research Center is letting citizen scientists collect valuable winter-time data on Lake Tahoe, according to a release from the school. The data collected will help researchers...
A new app being developed by the University of California Berkeley could make it possible for phones to detect earthquakes and alert people to get away from unstable structures such as buildings or bridges. The app, called...
A new initiative through the University of Wyoming Biodiversity Institute, Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center and the Wyoming Natural Diversity Database has made it possible for hikers to log wildlife findings on a website so others can...
Delaware Sea Grant has recently updated its rain garden app, which gives users large amounts of information needed to successfully create their own rain gardens, according to a release from the University of Delaware. The update includes...
Not sure what plant or animal you’re looking at? There’s an app for that! Lookup Life, according to a Treehugger post, will help users identify the plants and animals they encounter. Lookup Life, from the makers of...
One water quality professional is so excited about the iSitu Water Monitoring App from In-Situ that he wrote a blog post about it on Medium. The app interfaces with the smarTROLL MP Handheld Water Quality Meter to...
An app developed by students and scientists at the Tahoe Environmental Research Center may soon help researchers gather important information about the lake, according to the Tahoe Daily Tribune. The smartphone app enables users to record data...
In light of ongoing drought conditions in California, a mobile app detailing water consumption beat out other entries in a University of Oregon design competition, according to a release from the school. The designers took home an...
NASA has released a smartphone application showing images of climate change over time, according to a release. The app is called “Images Of Change” and is currently available for download on the iTunes store. Officials from the...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed a new online water quality app to assess runoff from agricultural lands. Called the Water Quality Index for Agricultural Runoff, or WQIag, the application integrates multiple land use, soil, and nutrient...
Students at the University of California San Diego have developed a web app to let users help monitor the health of marine conservation areas, according to a release. The app will help San Diego Coastkeeper, an organization...