Environment & Outdoors

"The more you know, the more power you have": citizen scientists move the knowledge needle

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published March 1, 2019 at 10:59 AM CST

Knowledge is power, especially when it comes to science.

And while we do live in a world with budgets, there's a lot that can be accomplished - including science - with volunteers.

Hartley Nature Center is joining with Boulder Lake Environmental Learning Center to train citizen scientists this month. It's a chance for folks who will already be enjoying those places anyway to make a really substantive contribution.

More information about the training sessions is available here.

Registration information is available here.

Citizen-scientists-in-training inspect tadpoles at Hartley Nature Center

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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