Citizen Science

Das wissenschaftliche Ziel von Dawn Chorus ist es, anhand von Tonaufnahmen und der Hilfe von Bürgerwissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftlern, die Vogelvielfalt über Jahre hinweg zu beobachten.

Research excavation in the Plattenkalke of Brunn/Upper Palatinate Since the mid-1990s, the association “Bildungs- und Dokumentationszentrum Ostbayerische Erdgeschichte e. V.” (Regensburg) has been conducting scientific fossil excavations in the former Pielenhofen forest quarry northwest of Regensburg in close contractual cooperation with and with the support of the Bavarian State Collection of Paleontology and Geology in […]

Wild bees and other biting insects are highly endangered and, like many other insects, strongly affected by species decline. To be able to protect these animals, it is important to reliably identify them and gather further knowledge about the species. With a new online image gallery of bees, wasps, ants and other hymenoptera, the Munich […]

Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology Geo- and biodiversity research, taxonomy (history of the earth)The Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology (SNSB-BSPG) has extensive collections of fossils and rocks from all over the world, in the precise identification, documentation and analysis of which the staff on site are also supported by volunteers. Some […]

Biodiversity research, taxonomy (especially in tropical countries) Many private collectors invest a considerable amount of time and money in their research, especially for collection building as well as for literature studies, museum visits, exhibitions, lectures and publication of research results. Between 80-100 volunteer entomologists (the majority of which are butterfly and beetle specialists), and about […]

50 years of teamwork between volunteers, science and nature conservation 110 years after Franz Vollmann of the Bavarian Botanical Society published his “Flora of Bavaria 1914,” the last comprehensive overview of Bavaria’s flora, a new, comprehensive “Flora of Bavaria” was published in 2024. This four-volume mammoth work is the result of more than 50 years […]