Empire State College is now engaged in a new Citizen Science Project with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Along with several ESC colleagues, we visited the lab on July 11th for an informative tutorial with the education staff: Dr. Rhiannon Crain, Dr. Colleen McLinn, and Robyn Bailey. Project Yardmap is designed to engage people into science, and to help us think about how we can participate in data collection. The premise is for people to utilize a social internet platform to help map yard space, and to identify (to the best of their ability) as many components of their space as they can. This essentially builds a catalog of data, such as biodiversity, percentage of space usage, and identification (birds and plants). I encourage everyone to use Yardmap, especially in NYC, as it may allow us to think about green spaces in an urban environment.