No matter what your job or background if you are interested in helping climate scientists do their work there are ways you can volunteer or contribute and we have some suggestions for you:
Earthwatch Institute
Earthwatch Institute has been pairing volunteers with researchers that need help collecting data and it is all exciting and hands on work in the field and in the lab. Here are some of their Climate expeditions you can join:
CLIMATE CHANGE AND CATERPILLARS IN COSTA RICA
CLIMATE CHANGE AT THE ARCTIC’S EDGE
WILDLIFE IN THE CHANGING ANDORRAN PYRENEES
Discover more expeditions on Climate Change
Prefer to work online from the comforts of your own home or town? Well you can help with these apps and online citizen science options:
MPing
Brought to you by NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory and the University of Oklahoma and Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies this app lets you submit your weather observations from where you are.
Climate CoLab
From the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
"The goal of Climate CoLab is to harness the collective intelligence of thousands of people from all around the world to address complex societal problems, starting with global climate change" Get working!
SECCHI
"The phytoplankton in the sea account for over 50% of all photosynthesis on Earth and, through the food web they support, theyunderpin the marine food chain. Living at the surface of the sea the phytoplankton are particularly sensitive to" Climate Change. You can help by downloading the app.