More than 500,000 people volunteer to help us learn more about Earth, and you can too!
Would you like to collaborate with NOAA to learn more about the world around us? People who volunteer to participate in the scientific process, through what is known as citizen science or participatory science, have a long history of valuable contributions to research and monitoring.
![Volunteers Eva Lagdamen and Benjamin Sankar are standing in the waters of an estuary, wearing waders, and show the camera a small eel, approximately the length of a finger, that they found in the river. (Image credit: Courtesy of Benjamin Sankar) Volunteers Eva Lagdamen and Benjamin Sankar are standing in the waters of an estuary, wearing waders, and show the camera a small eel, approximately the length of a finger, that they found in the river.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/2023-04/citsci2023bensankar1.jpg?h=e90a62e2&itok=ev7Sdfw3)
Benjamin Sankar and Eva Lagdamen proudly show off one of the juvenile glass eels they found during a session with Hudson River Eel. (Image credit: Courtesy of Benjamin Sankar)