Backyard Detectives

Backyard Detectives: Building community momentum for social change.

Backyard Detectives is an innovative and community-based ‘science project’ crowdsourcing information to contribute to the environmental challenge of coal dust in the atmosphere and the harmful effects it can have.

We aim to harness known local public health concerns through a crowdsourcing methodology to both prove the reality of the coal dust phenomenon through indicative data sampling, and to build community momentum towards social change.