Elevate Local Voices: Fund the Citizen's Science Website

Hello ! Can You Help us fund our website?

We are Oscar, Imogene, and Hildegaard, writers, scientists, and optimists starting up an online and in-print journal to provide an outlet for local science writing based on work done by local and citizen scientists to inform neighbors of issues directly impacting them. The Citizen’s Science Quarterly (CSQ) will publish timely scientific articles that will enable/facilitate informed citizen decision-making. As editors, we are unpaid; however, we need to pay our webmaster. The website will be used for article submissions, issue archives, and to get the word out to people who need information. When possible, data referenced in our published articles will be available to readers through our website database.

The print edition of the Citizen’s Science Quarterly will be a quarterly supplement to the Red Hook Star Revue. It will feature articles about science in the region: the Brooklyn waterfront, New York City, and in areas that are geographically similar to South Brooklyn, topographically; low-lying coastal areas extremely vulnerable to climate change inundation and extreme weather, demographically; former or currently industrial or mixed industrial and residential, non-affluent, and mixed demographic.

The CSQ will be 3 to 5 pages, allowing for 6 to 10 articles. Our journalistic style will be driven by the need to inform a broad range of readers. Editorial staff will review and select articles for each issue. Associate editors can be asked to join on an annual basis or on a per-edition basis. Selection of articles will cleave to the challenges facing Red Hook and surrounding neighborhoods or similar locations.