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The Seward Park Environmental & Audubon Center invites public audiences and local citizen scientists to utilize our lab, equipment, and natural surroundings to expand upon your own scientific interests as well as help us with our ongoing research and monitoring. Please contact us with your proposals and for more information about Citizen Science opportunities.

Current Citizen Science Opportunities

Below is a sampling of scheduled Citizen Science projects at Seward Park Environmental & Audubon Center. Citizen Science encourages all people of all ages and skill levels to participate. Please let us know if you’d like to be involved!

• Microscopic Wonders of Lake Washington – Let’s keep an eye on our Lake! Is that green gunk harmful, harmless, or actually good for the Lake? Join us in the Citizen Science lab as we explore the tiny plants and animals that inhabit Lake Washington. Learn how to use a microscope and identify common (and not-so-common) aquatic micro-flora and fauna. Bring the whole family, and get involved with your Lake! To view the program description, click here.
• Winter Waterbird Walks – Join Audubon staff and local experts once a month from October to April as we circumnavigate Seward Park and survey for wintering waterbirds. Learn about avian ecology and identification techniques, and help monitor trends in diversity, distribution, and abundance.
• Feathered “Fingerprints” – Want to participate in Citizen Science, but can’t commit to regular meetings? Then this is the project for you! Help us create a DNA fingerprint database of all the bird species in Seward Park. As you are walking around the Park, pick up feathers and deliver them to the Audubon Center. Using samples from these feathers and a gel electrophoresis kit, we will learn which birds inhabit our area.