Community science projects begin when frontline leaders facing environmental injustice set goals. Projects follow a non-linear trajectory that may include organizing, mobilization, empirical documentation, and advocacy based on the results.

Read about milestones achieved by projects around the world on the Stories page.

Projects

Basic types of projects

There are a few main types of projects that collect environmental evidence to document reality and work towards locally held goals:

• Establishment of a baseline → change detection
• Environmental Surveillance (Internet of Things, Open Data, Trend Spotting)
• Watchdogging, Hotspotting, bounty hunting, environmental self-defense
• Study Design with a disprovable hypothesis

In Public Lab's educational work, we use the following framework: