Journal
SPACE WEATHER-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages 548-559Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015SW001214
Keywords
aurora; citizen science; alerts
Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [1344296]
- Los Alamos National Laboratory's Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP)
- Laboratory Directed R&D under the Van Allen Probes
- Laboratory Directed R&D under the NASA Goddard
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1344296] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A new, citizen science-based, aurora observing and reporting platform has been developed with the primary aim of collecting auroral observations made by the general public to further improve the modeling of the aurora. In addition, the real-time ability of this platform facilitates the combination of citizen science observations with auroral oval models to improve auroral visibility nowcasting. Aurorasaurus provides easily understandable aurora information, basic gamification, and real-time location-based notification of verified aurora activity to engage citizen scientists. The Aurorasaurus project is one of only a handful of space weather citizen science projects and can provide useful results for the space weather and citizen science communities. Early results are promising with over 2000 registered users submitting over 1000 aurora observations and verifying over 1700 aurora sightings posted on Twitter.
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