List of 2017 March for Science locations
The March for Science was a series of protests that occurred across the United States and around the World on April 22, 2017. The protests were organized due to the perceived hostility of the Trump administration, as well as proposed budget cuts to federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institute of Health. A major goal of the march was convincing government officials to adopt policies in-line with the scientific understanding of issues such as climate change and vaccines. The organizers estimated that over one million people in 650 locations on all seven continents attended. Listed below are several hundreds of the affiliated marches.
March locations in the United States
State | City | Estimated attendance | Photo | Notes |
Wake Island | 3 | Underwater march. | ||
Auburn | 250 | |||
Birmingham | 2,000 | |||
Huntsville | 1,100 | The march ended at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. | ||
Mobile | hundreds | |||
Montgomery | 200 | Attendance according to organizers. | ||
Anchorage | 2,000 | |||
Atka Island | 1 | |||
Dillingham | 100 | |||
Fairbanks | 1,000+ | More than 1,000 met at Ryan Middle School for speeches, music and activities, and an up and down Airport Way. The event was preceded by a People's Climate Rally on the parking lot of Lathrop High School and followed by Earth Day activities at Barnette Magnet School | ||
Homer | 100 | |||
Juneau | 350-600 | The crowd rallied at the Alaska State Capitol before marching to the Renewable Juneau Fair at Juneau-Douglas High School. | ||
Ketchikan | ||||
Palmer | 400 | |||
Seward | ||||
Skagway | ||||
Tok | ||||
Toolik Lake | ||||
Chino Valley | ||||
Flagstaff | 1,000 | Protestors marched from Thorpe Park to city hall, where Representative Tom O'Halleran gave a speech. | ||
Lake Havasu City | 70+ | |||
Phoenix | 3,000+ | At 10 AM, the march started in front of the Historic City Hall with speakers and a rally. The protestors proceeded down Jefferson Street, then traveled to Fifth Street, up to Washington Street and ended their protest at First Avenue. A number of educational booths were set up at the protest site. | ||
Sedona | As the Women's March Sedona March for the Earth and March for Science | |||
Show Low | 200 | Officially named the White Mountains March for Science. | ||
Tucson | 2,500 ; 200 | A planned march had been officially canceled in favor of a rally due to budgetary concerns. However, about two hundred scientists and supporters of the "Women's March for Science" marched from Amory Park to El Presido Park, were 2,500 people had gathered for a rally. Tucson police blockaded traffic along the march route. | ||
Fayetteville | 500 | |||
Fort Smith | ||||
Little Rock | hundreds | Hundreds gathered in Little Rock; the march was organized by the local Sierra Club and the Museum of Discovery. | ||
Arcata | 3,000 | |||
Berkeley | 2,000 | The rally organized by University of California, Berkeley graduate students took place at Sproul Plaza. Speakers included integrative biology professor Nipam Patel, graduate students and others. After the rally, the march went through downtown Berkeley. | ||
Cambria | 50 | |||
Chico | 2,500-3,000 | |||
Crescent City | Held a teach-in rather than marching. | |||
Fort Bragg | hundreds | |||
Fresno | ||||
Fullerton | 1,000 | |||
Grass Valley | 150 | Attendance according to organizers. Held as the satellite march for Nevada County. | ||
Hanford | 15 | |||
Hayward | ||||
Hemet | 40-50 | |||
Indio | At the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival | |||
Kelso | In the Mojave National Preserve. | |||
Livermore | 300-400 | Participants gathered at Livermore High School. | ||
Long Beach | 500 | |||
Los Angeles | 50,000 | The march went from Pershing Square to City Hall with speeches by Lucy Jones, Tom Steyer and Allison Schroeder beginning at noon. Former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman led the rally in an electric vehicle. | ||
Modesto | ||||
Monterey | 1,000+ | |||
Ojai | 200 | |||
Olympic Valley | At Tahoe-Truckee Earth Day, both a morning March for Science and an afternoon Community March for Science were held. | |||
Pacifica | ||||
Palm Springs | 100+ | |||
Pasadena | 1,000 | |||
Quincy | 100+ | |||
Redding | hundreds | |||
Ridgecrest | 77 | |||
Riverside | hundreds | Hundreds marched from the Superior Court building to City Hall. | ||
Sacramento | 10,000–15,000 | |||
San Diego | 15,000 | Demonstrators marched from Civic Center to Waterfront Park holding a wide variety of signs. Climatologist Ralph Keeling of the UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography spoke to the crowd. Another march was held on a Scripps marine biology research cruise at sea. | ||
San Francisco | 50,000 | An "enthusiastic and peaceful crowd" gathered at Justin Herman Plaza, where scientists addressed the crowd before a march up Market Street to Civic Center, where activities and events were held. | ||
San Jose | 10,000 | The March for Science Silicon Valley left San Jose City Hall and traveled to Plaza de César Chávez, where Stanford University biophysicist and Nobel laureate William Moerner, neuroscientist and actress Mayim Bialik, U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren and others spoke. | ||
San Luis Obispo | Hundreds | Hundreds of people in "a jubilant and peaceful crowd" gathered at Emerson Park. | ||
Santa Barbara | 5,000 | |||
Santa Cruz | 4,000 | |||
Santa Rosa | 2,000+ | |||
Sonora | nearly 250 | |||
Stockton | 500+ | Crowd size according to organizers. | ||
Tehachapi | 100+ | |||
Walnut Creek | 1,500 | |||
Yosemite National Park | 150 | |||
Aspen | 300+ | Crowd size according to organizers. | ||
Avon | 100 | Crowd size according to organizers. | ||
Breckenridge | 300 | |||
Carbondale | 180 | |||
Colorado Springs | 800-1000 | Demonstrators gathered outside Colorado Springs City Hall in favor of science and opposed to anti-intellectualism and climate change denial. | ||
Denver | thousands | Thousands of scientists, teachers, students and supporters of science from cities across Colorado participated. | ||
Estes Park | ||||
Grand Junction | 750 | |||
Gunnison | ||||
Telluride | 200-250 | Crowd size estimate by organizers. | ||
East Haddam | ||||
East Lyme | 500–1,000 | |||
Hartford | 1,200 | On a rainy day, 1,200 people gathered at the Mortensen Riverfront Plaza. Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman spoke. | ||
New Haven | 1,000-2,000 | Protesters gathered in the East Rock neighborhood. The crowd was addressed by Senator Richard Blumenthal and Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Rob Klee. | ||
Lewes | 200 | |||
Newark | 600+ | The march started at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark. It then proceeded down South Main Street and South College Avenue. | ||
Clearwater | ||||
Fort Lauderdale | ||||
Fort Myers | 547 | Crowd size according to length of organizers' sign-in sheet. This march had to be moved from Naples to Fort Myers. | ||
Fort Pierce | 200+ | More than 200 people from across Florida's Treasure Coast region attended the rally along Seaway Drive. | ||
Fort Walton Beach | 300+ | |||
Gainesville | 1,000+ | The Associated Press reported that more than a thousand people participated, while the Gainesville Sun reported that nearly a thousand participated. Marchers walked from Ben Hill Griffin Stadium to Bo Diddley Plaza. | ||
Hudson | ||||
Jacksonville | hundreds | Hundreds gathered at Jacksonville Landing in downtown Jacksonville. | ||
Lakeland | 120+ | |||
Miami | 1,000+ | More than a thousand people rallied at Museum Park, where a number of speakers addressed the crowd. | ||
New Smyrna Beach | 425 | Crowd size according to organizers. | ||
Orlando | thousands | thousands marched through Lake Eola Park. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer attended. | ||
Pensacola | ||||
Sarasota | 1,000+ | |||
St. Augustine | 500 | Some 500 marchers walked through Lincolnville. | ||
St. Petersburg | 2,000-5,000 | Thousands marched at Poynter Park. | ||
Tallahassee | 4,000+ | More than 4,000 people marched from Railroad Square to the Old Florida Capitol. Florida State University oceanography professor Jeff Chanton and others spoke. A planned march in Panama City whose permits were not approved joined the Tallahassee march. | ||
Titusville | hundreds | |||
West Palm Beach | hundreds | Several hundred gathered at two events: a Meyer Amphitheater gathering and a march from Dreher Park to Trump's Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. | ||
Athens | hundreds | Marchers gathered outside the federal Courthouse. | ||
Atlanta | 4,000+ | Marchers assembled around Candler Park. Turnout is official Atlanta Police estimate; organizers estimate 8000–10000. | ||
Augusta | ||||
Brunswick | 250+ | Attendance according to organizers. | ||
Savannah | ||||
Statesboro | ||||
Hilo | 100 | |||
Honolulu | nearly 1,000 | Marchers walked from the University of Hawai'i to Stadium Park, and back. | ||
Lihue | 300+ | |||
Maui | A morning march was held in Kahului. Later in the day, about 50 participated in a Swim for Science. | |||
Boise | 1,000 | "Gag orders on some government science agencies, potential deregulation and cuts to others and a reliance on 'alternative facts' were some of the more jarring issues, they said from the podium on the steps of the Idaho statehouse Saturday morning." | ||
Idaho Falls | 413 | Attendance according to organizers. | ||
Pocatello | nearly 500 | |||
Twin Falls | dozens | Dozens of people from across the Magic Valley region protested in front of the county courthouse from 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM. Interviewed protestors stated that they had a peak number of sixty protestors. | ||
Carbondale | A morning march was held in conjunction with the All Species Puppet Parade, and a separate march was held in the afternoon. | |||
Champaign-Urbana | 5,000 | Protesters gathered in downtown Champaign near the Orpheum Children's Science Museum and marched. | ||
Charleston | 60 | Attendance according to organizers. | ||
Chicago | 60,000 | Police requested that people stop arriving when the event drew more participants than expected. | ||
Geneva | 300 | The march started at Geneva train station and ended at Island Park. Attendance was noted to be higher than expected. | ||
Normal | 100 | "Dozens upon dozens" of demonstrators gathered at Uptown Circle, marched through Uptown, and ended the march on the quad of Illinois State University. | ||
Palatine | 469 | Attendance according to a letter to the editor. | ||
Peoria | 500 | |||
Rockford | dozens | The protest started in Joe Marino Park. | ||
Springfield | 700+ | Over 700 protesters gathered in front of the Illinois State Capitol. Senator Dick Durbin addressed the crowd. | ||
Evansville | 500+ | |||
Indianapolis | 10,000 | |||
Lafayette | 400 | |||
South Bend | 1,128 | |||
Terre Haute | 172 | |||
Cedar Falls | 300 | The march and rally took place at Overman Park with Senator David Johnson as the first speaker. | ||
Davenport | 200 | The protest was held at Fejervary Park. | ||
Decorah | several hundred | |||
Des Moines | 3,000 | The demonstration took place at the Iowa State Capitol. | ||
Dubuque | Held on April 23. | |||
Independence | two dozen | |||
Iowa City | 400 | Several East Iowans spoke at the Pentacrest before a march through downtown Iowa City took place. | ||
Tipton | ||||
Manhattan | 200+ | |||
Topeka | ||||
Wichita | 1,000+ | |||
Bowling Green | 250 | |||
Lexington | hundreds | Hundreds marched in the rain. | ||
Louisville | hundreds | The march was postponed to Sunday, April 23 due to Thunder Over Louisville, an annual airshow and firework festival. Protesters marched from City Hall to the Kentucky Science Center and back. | ||
Paducah | 80+ | Marchers from western Kentucky participated in cold and damp weather. | ||
Baton Rouge | hundreds | Hundreds of pro-science demonstrators gathered at North Boulevard Town Square and marched to the Louisiana State Capitol. | ||
Lafayette | 200 | |||
Monroe | 50+ | |||
New Orleans | hundreds | Hundreds gathered at New Orleans City Hall, including a "sizable contingent" of scientists belonging to the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, which was holding its annual conference in the city. The AAPA had canceled its plenary session so that participants could attend the March for Science. | ||
Shreveport | 250 | |||
Gouldsboro | ||||
Machias | 75+ | |||
Orono | 200-300 | Despite a cold drizzle, an estimated 200 to 300 rallied on the University of Maine campus. | ||
Portland | 1,000 | |||
Sanford | ||||
Unity | ||||
Annapolis | 400-450 | |||
Ocean City | ||||
Amherst | hundreds | Hundreds of people from across western Massachusetts participated. | ||
Boston | 70,000 | Held on Boston Common on a rainy day, speakers included former Environmental Protection Agency director Gina McCarthy, who warned that EPA budget cuts "could roll back progress on our air and water quality that could weaken health protections for millions of Americans," and George M. Church of Harvard and MIT. An estimated 70,000 people attended. | ||
Falmouth | 600 | The protest was held on the Falmouth Village Green. Members of a number of scientific organizations in Cape Cod such as Marine Biological Laboratory, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and International Fund for Animal Welfare attended. | ||
Great Barrington | 180 | |||
Pittsfield | Over 250-400 | |||
Worcester | 300 | |||
Alpena | 250 | |||
Ann Arbor | 10,000–15,000 | Thousands rallied on the Diag at the University of Michigan. | ||
Big Rapids | ||||
Cheboygan | 45+ | Attendance according to organizers. | ||
Detroit | 3,000 | Thousands joined the March for Science Detroit at Hart Plaza. | ||
Grand Rapids | hundreds to thousands | |||
Houghton | 500 | |||
Kalamazoo | hundreds | Marchers gathered at Western Michigan University and marched down Michigan Avenue to Bronson Park | ||
Lansing | 2,500 | An estimated 2,500 gathered on the Michigan State Capitol lawn. Speakers included Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and former state Senator Gretchen Whitmer. | ||
Marquette | 250+ | |||
Midland | 500+ | |||
Petoskey | hundreds | |||
Sault Ste. Marie | ||||
Ypsilanti | 300 | |||
Alexandria | ||||
Bemidji | 300 | Protestors marched from Bemidji State University to the city's Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues, where a round dance was held. The protesters then returned to the university for a science festival. | ||
Brainerd | 300 | |||
Duluth | thousands | |||
Grand Marais | 165 | |||
Grand Rapids | 130+ | |||
Moorhead | nearly 200 | |||
Morris | 225 | |||
New Ulm | 100+ | |||
Northfield | ||||
Park Rapids | nearly 40 | |||
Rochester | 900 | |||
Saint Paul | 50,000 | The march proceeded from Cathedral Hill Park to the Minnesota State Capitol. | ||
Hattiesburg | Held with the Women's March for Progress, which had been postponed in January due to a tornado. | |||
Jackson | Postponed on advice of city officials and police. | |||
Long Beach | 100 | |||
Oxford | 100 | The march started at the University of Mississippi. | ||
Columbia | hundreds | Hundreds of people of all ages from the Mid-Missouri region gathered at a rally at the Boone County Courthouse, followed by a march at Eighth Street and Peace Park. | ||
Joplin | 200+ | |||
Kansas City | 5,000 | |||
Maryville | ||||
Rolla | 100+ | |||
Springfield | nearly 1,000 | "State Representative Crystal Quade says, 'I'm with what looks like almost 1,000 people in support of science.'" | ||
St. Joseph | "dozens" | |||
St. Louis | thousands | The march commenced at Union Station and ended at the Gateway Arch, where a number of speeches were given. | ||
Billings | Rally held rather than a march. | |||
Bozeman | hundreds | The protest started at Montana State University, where a number of speeches were given. | ||
Great Falls | 200+ | |||
Helena | 600 | |||
Missoula | hundreds | Protestors assembled in Caras Park. | ||
Hastings | 50 | |||
Kearney | ||||
Lincoln | hundreds | Started at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and marched to the Nebraska State Capitol. | ||
Omaha | 1,000 | A thousand marchers walked from Elmwood Park to Aksarben Village. | ||
Las Vegas | hundreds | |||
Reno | 2,000 | |||
Spring Creek | ||||
Concord | 2,000 | A couple thousand protesters gathered at the State House plaza, marched for a few blocks downtown then returned to the State House for a rally. | ||
Portsmouth | hundreds | Several hundred from around the Seacoast Region rallied at Market Square. | ||
Atlantic City | 150-250 | |||
Princeton | 2,000+ | |||
Trenton | nearly 1,000 | Marchers walked from Trenton War Memorial to the New Jersey State House Annex, calling for environmental protection and climate change action. | ||
Alamogordo | 40-45 | |||
Albuquerque | 4,000 | About 4,000 science supporters gathered at Civic Plaza; scientists from the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Nature Conservancy spoke at the event. | ||
Las Cruces | 600 | The march began and ended in Plaza de Las Cruces. | ||
Roswell | 15 | |||
Santa Fe | thousands | The local crowd, estimated to number a few thousand people, filled downtown streets in a march to the Capitol for a rally in support of scientific pursuits and against what they see as attacks on everything from climate change to vaccinations. | ||
Silver City | 100+ | |||
Socorro | 200-300 | |||
Taos | ||||
Albany | thousands | Thousands gathered at West Capitol Park in front of the New York State Capitol. | ||
Binghamton | 100+ | |||
Buffalo | 2,000 | An estimated 2,000 people marched from Soldier Circle to Delaware Park. | ||
Corning | Official name was the Twin Tiers March for Science. | |||
East Meadow | ||||
Ithaca | 500+ | More than 500 participants gathered at Ithaca Commons. | ||
New York City | 40,000 | Amidst rainstorms, thousands gathered in midtown Manhattan on Broadway from 59th Street to Times Square, calling upon Trump "to reconsider proposed government budget cuts that could affect the future of the field." | ||
Plattsburgh | 100+ | |||
Poughkeepsie | hundreds | Science March Hudson Valley took place in Poughkeepsie, where hundreds marked down Main Street to Waryas Park. | ||
Rochester | 1,800+ | |||
Rockville Centre | ||||
Saratoga Springs | 300-400 | |||
Schoharie | ||||
Stony Brook | 500 | |||
Syracuse | 1,500 | The rally was held in Clinton Square. | ||
Utica | 250 | Attendance estimate by organizer. | ||
Watertown | 100+ | |||
Asheville | 2,000 | The march started at Aston Park and continued to the Vance Monument. | ||
Beaufort | 250 | Protestors marched to the county courthouse, where they listened to several speeches. At 3 PM, a tree was planted at the courthouse to commemorate Earth Day. | ||
Charlotte | 1,000 | |||
Elizabeth City | ||||
Greensboro | nearly 1,000 | |||
Morganton | ||||
Raleigh | thousands | Protesters marched from Shaw University to Moore Square. | ||
Washington | 250+ | |||
Wilmington | 750 | |||
Grand Forks | hundreds | |||
Athens | 300+ | |||
Cincinnati | thousands | Protestors gathered in Fountain Square, where they listened to speeches from scientists. They then marched to City Hall and the Cincinnati Public Library. | ||
Cleveland | 10,000+ | The rally took place in Public Square in downtown Cleveland. "No immediate crowd estimates were available, but the crowd appeared to be as large as the one here for January's Women's March, which drew 15,000. Late in the day, city event planners estimated that 10,000 participated." | ||
Columbus | 2,000-3,000 | Thousands rallied at the Ohio Statehouse, followed by a march to Columbus Commons where other events were held. | ||
Dayton | 1,200-1,500 | |||
Delaware | ||||
Findlay | ||||
Mansfield | Activities and outreach, no marching. | |||
Mount Vernon | ||||
New Philadelphia | Official name was the Tuscarawas County March For Science. | |||
Oxford | hundreds | |||
Toledo | hundreds | |||
Wooster | several hundred | Attendance given by an attendee. | ||
Yellow Springs | ||||
Youngstown | 200 | |||
Zanesville | 24 | March was scheduled for April 29, they had bad weather although some participated, and another march is planned for May 20. | ||
Oklahoma City | 2,000+ | |||
Tulsa | hundreds | A few hundred people participated in the Tulsa Science March at Johnson Park, and about 500 attended the annual Earth Day festival over the course of the day. | ||
Ashland | 150 | A planned parade was canceled after organizers were unable to pay over-time fees for the city staff needed to manage traffic. Despite the cancellation, around 150 people marched from Garfield Park to ScienceWorks, a local museum. | ||
Astoria | 50 | |||
Bend | 600 | Crowd size given by an attendee. Sisters did not hold its own satellite march, but rather joined the march in Bend. | ||
Coos Bay | ||||
Corvallis | 4,000-5,000 | |||
Eugene | 2,000 | Participants rallied at the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene before marching to the federal courthouse. U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio spoke. | ||
Grants Pass | hundreds | |||
Klamath Falls | 100+ | The march started in the downtown area of Klamath Falls at noon. Organizers claim that more than one hundred protestors attended the march. | ||
Newport | 600+ | |||
Pendleton | 225 | " Mann, who used to work for the USDA, says a lot of researchers and scientists who work for the federal government locally don't feel as if they can risk attending the march." | ||
Portland | thousands | Thousands of demonstrators, including many young families, turned out to the Tom McCall Waterfront Park for Portland's March for Science rally. U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici and Earl Blumenauer, among others, addressed the crowd. | ||
Roseburg | 150+ | |||
Salem | 1,000+ | More than a thousand people demonstrated on the Oregon State Capitol grounds. | ||
St. Helens | ||||
Beaver | ||||
Bethlehem | 500+ | Protestors gathered near city hall and listened to six speakers. | ||
Bradford | ||||
Doylestown | hundreds | |||
Erie | 600+ | |||
Hawley | ||||
Lancaster | hundreds | Hundreds rallied in Penn Square. | ||
Meadville | 100-110 | Attendance estimate by organizers. | ||
Philadelphia | 10,000–20,000 | Event organizers said that more than 20,000 people had participated, while Philadelphia police estimated that 10,000 people participated. The march took place in Center City; among the many participants was Dr. Paul A. Offit, co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine. | ||
Pittsburgh | hundreds | Hundreds rallied outside the Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh campus. | ||
Selinsgrove | ||||
Sharon | 135+ | |||
State College | 200+ | |||
Wilkes-Barre | 100+ | |||
San Juan | 600+ | Attendance figure by organizer. | ||
Providence | hundreds | Hundreds rallied at the Rhode Island State House. U.S. Representative David Cicilline spoke. | ||
Charleston | hundreds | |||
Columbia | 1,000+ | |||
Greenville | A few hundred | The Clemson satellite march joined Greenville rather than hold a separate march. | ||
Myrtle Beach | Held in the form of a community beach cleanup. | |||
Spartanburg | ||||
Aberdeen | 30 | |||
Pierre | 30 | |||
Rapid City | nearly 1,000 | Participants marked from the Surbeck Center at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to the Earth Day Expo at Central States Fair Grounds. Attendance was higher than expected by organizers. | ||
Sioux Falls | hundreds | |||
Chattanooga | 1,000 | Around a thousand people gathered in Chattanooga's Main Terrain Art Park to show support for science and oppose the Trump administration's proposed cuts to science research. | ||
Knoxville | 500+ | Participants rallied at the Ayres South Lawn on "the Hill" at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus, then marched to the John J. Duncan Federal Building downtown. | ||
Memphis | hundreds | |||
Nashville | 4,000 | Some 4,000 people turned out for the March for Science and Climate, held in downtown Nashville's Legislative Plaza. | ||
Alpine | ||||
Amarillo | 300 | |||
Austin | thousands | Thousands gathered on the south lawn of the Texas Capitol, beginning the event with teach-ins. "On the local march's Facebook page about 10,000 expressed interest in going. Close to 6,000 said they went." | ||
Beaumont | ||||
College Station | ||||
Corpus Christi | dozens | Dozens of local citizens marched along the city's bayfront. | ||
Dallas | 3,000 | The march went from Dallas City Hall and ended at Fair Park. | ||
Denton | 400 | |||
El Paso | hundreds | |||
Fort Worth | 1,000+ | The march began outside the University of North Texas Health Science Center. | ||
Georgetown | ||||
Houston | 15,000 | The Houston event, which started at Sam Houston Park and ended at City Hall, was expected to be one of the largest in the nation. Organizers initially anticipated about 10,000 marchers, but they estimated as many as 15,000 showed up. | ||
Lubbock | 200+ | |||
Midland | ||||
San Antonio | hundreds | Hundreds rallied at San Pedro Park and marched at San Antonio College, "advocating for a broad spectrum of scientific concerns." | ||
Sherman | 30 | |||
Wichita Falls | ||||
Charlotte Amalie | ||||
Frederiksted | ||||
Cedar City | nearly 200 | |||
Logan | 500 | |||
Moab | 100+ | |||
Park City | 350 | |||
Salt Lake City | thousands | Several thousand people marched in Salt Lake City, gathering at City Creek Park and walking to the Utah State Capitol. Nobel laureate Mario Capecchi, a professor at the University of Utah, addressed the crowd. Rallies were also held at four other cities in Utah: Logan, Moab, Park City, and Saint George. | ||
Springdale | Part of the Zion Canyon Earth Day celebration. | |||
St. George | ||||
Brattleboro | ||||
Burlington | ||||
Montpelier | hundreds | The rally took place on the Vermont State House lawn. | ||
Rutland | 70 | About 70 people gathered for talks at the Rutland Free Library before marching. | ||
Blacksburg | hundreds | |||
Charlottesville | hundreds | |||
Lynchburg | 30+ | |||
Martinsville | 60+ | Attendance figure by organizers. | ||
Norfolk | hundreds | |||
Richmond | ||||
Staunton | 75 | |||
Williamsburg | dozens | Protestors marched around Colonial Williamsburg. Organizers had not obtained a protest permit, so protestors were divided into groups of fifteen to fall beneath gathering limits. | ||
Winchester | 250 | |||
Bellingham | 2,000 | The protest was held at city hall. A number of speeches were given, including by former astronaut Wendy Lawrence. | ||
Chehalis | 75 | |||
Coupeville | ||||
Ellensburg | 150 | |||
Olympia | 4,000-5,000 | Demonstrators gathered for a rally at the Legislative building and marched to Heritage Park, where more speakers addressed the crowd and additional activities were held. | ||
Port Angeles | Satellite event was a Celebration of Science, no indication of a march, per se. | |||
Pullman | 1,000 | |||
Richland | ||||
Seattle | 20,000 | Thousands marched from Cal Anderson Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood to Seattle Center. Biochemist and University of Washington professor emeritus Eddy Fischer, the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, attended. | ||
Shelton | 60+ | |||
Spokane | thousands | At one point, the marchers who filled the street stretched nine city blocks. | ||
Tacoma | 1,000+ | More than a thousand marchers gathered at Tollefson Plaza. | ||
Wenatchee | hundreds | |||
White Salmon | 330 | Attendance estimate by organizers. | ||
Yakima | 200 | |||
Buckhannon | ||||
Huntington | 300 | Around 300 supporters filled Heritage Station. A planned march in Charleston was canceled, with marchers encouraged to participate in Huntington. | ||
Morgantown | 500 | About 500 people gathered outside West Virginia University's Woodburn Hall before the march. | ||
Appleton | 400+ | |||
Ashland | hundreds | |||
Eau Claire | nearly 350 | |||
Green Bay | 450 | |||
Hayward | Protestors stopped at the Sawyer County Courthouse and later to U.S. Route 63. | |||
Kenosha | 250+ | |||
La Crosse | 250+ | |||
Madison | 4,000-5,000 | March ended at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Library Mall. Speakers included chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri and Tia Nelson, daughter of Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson. Madison also held its Climate March the same day. | ||
Marshfield | 427 | |||
Milwaukee | 2,000 | Rally participants gathered at Red Arrow Park and marched in downtown Milwaukee. In addition to the Trump administration's proposed cuts to science and research, rally participants also expressed opposition to the administration's proposals to cut the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative from the federal budget. | ||
Minocqua | 200+ | |||
Oshkosh | 300 | |||
Rice Lake | 100+ | |||
Webster | 3 | |||
Cody | 170+ | |||
Jackson Hole | hundreds | |||
Laramie | hundreds | |||
Pinedale | 50+ | |||
Yellowstone National Park | At Old Faithful. The protest could not hold a literal march. |
March locations outside the United States
Listed below are 109 marches outside the United States in support of the 2017 March for Science.Country | City | Estimated attendance | Photo | Notes |
Neumayer-Station III | 7 | Seven German scientists, stationed in the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research's Antarctic research station Neumayer-Station III over the winter, exited the station to show their support for the march. Weather conditions were reported to be below freezing with twenty-six mile per hour wind gusts. | ||
Adelaide | 220 | Attendance estimate by organisers. | ||
Brisbane | 1,000+ | Marchers walked from Reddacliff Place to Parliament House, Brisbane | ||
Cairns | 500+ | |||
Canberra | 1,000+ | More than 1,000 people gathered at Parliament House. Karlie Noon, a graduate student in Astronomy and Astrophysics ; Geoff McNamara, the 2014 recipient of the Prime Minister's Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Secondary Schools; Emily Banks one of the 2015 recipients of the Medical Journal of Australia/MDA National Prize for Excellence in Medical Research ; and Will Steffen spoke at the march. | ||
Hobart | ||||
Launceston | 50+ | |||
Melbourne | 4,000 | Marchers walked to Parliament House, Melbourne. Former Labor science minister Barry Jones addressed the crowd. | ||
Perth | hundreds | |||
Port Macquarie | 60 | Attendance figure by organisers. | ||
Sydney | 3,000 | University of New South Wales climate scientist Angela Maharaj, sociologist Eva Cox, and former Liberal Party leader John Hewson addressed a crowd of 3,000. | ||
Townsville | ||||
Vienna | 1,600 | |||
Hope Town | ||||
Dhaka | A small group of protestors gathered around Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University. | |||
Brussels | hundreds | Marchers protested against cuts in the grants available for science and the upcoming rise of pseudoscience. Charlotte Thorley and comedian/scienceblogger Lieven Scheire were the initiative takers. | ||
Manaus | 300-400 | The march started at 4:45 pm in downtown at the intersection of Sete de Setembro and Eduardo Ribero, and continued on the Praça do Congresso. Attended mainly by professors, researchers and students from UFAM, INPA, UEA and Fiocruz. | ||
São Paulo | 200 | Organizers were unable to obtain a permit to hold a march, so a number of educational tents containing information on scientific research were set up in the city. The University of São Paulo displayed scientific artifacts, including their insect collections and hominid skull casts in some of the tents. | ||
Cane Garden Bay, Tortola | ||||
Calgary | hundreds | |||
Edmonton | hundreds | Several hundred people attended a rally at the Alberta Legislature Building. | ||
Halifax | 250 | |||
Hamilton | 300+ | |||
Lethbridge | 25 | |||
London, Ontario | ||||
Montreal | hundreds | |||
Ottawa | 600-700 | |||
St. John's | ||||
Saskatoon | 200 | |||
Sudbury | dozens | |||
Toronto | 3,000 | Marchers walked from Nathan Phillips Square to Queen's Park to "celebrate Canadian science and the role that science plays in our society... and to stand in solidarity with American scientists who are facing obvious struggles with the current government and its support for science." | ||
Vancouver | 500+ | At least 500 marchers made their way to Science World. | ||
Victoria | 750 | |||
Waterloo, Ontario | hundreds | |||
Windsor, Ontario | 100+ | |||
Winnipeg | nearly 200 | |||
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia | ||||
George Town | ||||
Little Cayman | 23 | Attendance according to organizers. | ||
Santiago | ||||
Zagreb | 1,000+ | |||
Copenhagen | 5,000 | |||
Urcuquí | 250 | A claimed 250 protestors attended the march. The march started at Yachay University and ended at the town plaza. | ||
Bordeaux | 300 | |||
Grenoble | 250 | |||
Lyon | 400 | |||
Marseille | 500 | Organizers and police estimate 500 people gathered at the :fr:Hôtel de ville de Marseille|Hôtel de Ville, and marched around the Vieux Port to the , though some news outlets reported attendance of "approximately a thousand". | ||
Nantes | 200 | |||
Paris | 5,000 | |||
Rennes | 200 | |||
Strasbourg | 350 | |||
Berlin | 11,000 | Marching took place between the Humboldt University and the Brandenburg Gate. | ||
Dresden | 2,000 | |||
Frankfurt am Main | 2,500 | |||
Freiburg | 25,00 | |||
Göttingen | 1,400 - 2,500 | |||
Greifswald | 300 | |||
Hamburg | 2,000 | |||
Heidelberg | 1,800 | |||
Jena | 1,000 | The march started at the University's main building and ended at Ernst-Abbe Square. | ||
Kassel | 250 | |||
Köln/Bonn | 1,000 - 1,500 | |||
Leipzig | 950 | |||
Munich | 3,000 | |||
Rostock | 250 | |||
Stuttgart | 250/400 | |||
Tübingen | almost 3,000 | |||
Accra | March for Science supporters conducted a teach-in at a hotel near Accra's beachfront. They taught about issues important to Accra's citizens, such as the damage plastic waste was causing to local aquatic wildlife. | |||
Kangerlussuaq | 20 | About 20 people in this tiny outpost of 499 people participated. The rally was organized by a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado who is studying the ice sheet. | ||
Hong Kong | Did not hold a march as part of their gathering. | |||
Budapest | The March started at Széchenyi István tér, in front of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' building, and ended at Fővám tér. | |||
Reykjavík | ||||
Coimbatore | 120+ | Attendance figure by organisers. | ||
Dublin | 600 | An estimated 600 scientists and science supporters marched to the Dáil. | ||
Rome | thousands | |||
Carmine Superiore | 1 | Only 2 people live here and one was away at the time of the March. Neutral attendees included 7 sheep and 9 cats. | ||
Tokyo | 50-60 | The march started at Hibiya Park and ended at Tokyo Station. | ||
Blantyre | 70 | Doctors, researchers, clinicians and science supporters gathered to . Much of the work in Malawi is funded by agencies threatened by U.S. budget cuts. | ||
Mexico City | hundreds | Marchers protested against cuts to the National Council of Science and Technology and to the accused theft of state funds by the former governor of Veracruz. The march started at the Angel of Independence and ended at Zócalo. | ||
Amsterdam | 3,000 | |||
Maastricht | hundreds | |||
Auckland | 300-400 | Protestors marched up Queen Street. After the march, the protestors assembled in Albert Park to listen to speakers, including microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles and James Shaw, a co-chair of the Green Party. | ||
Christchurch | 250 | Participants gathered in front of Canterbury Museum and marched to Cathedral Square, where a rally was held. | ||
Dunedin | 300 | |||
Palmerston North | 230 | |||
Wellington | ||||
Abuja | ||||
3 | Three researchers displaying a March for Science Banner walked over 140 miles to collect data on snow depth for NASA climate research. They had planned to stay at the North Pole through April 22, but left on the 21st after melting ice threatened the integrity of their runway. | |||
Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard | 40 | An estimated forty scientists marched through the research town, which is located in the Arctic Circle. A team of seven Norwegian scientists posed in front of a statue of Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen in support of the march. | ||
Tromsø | 200 | A number of speeches were given in the town's market square. Speakers included local politicians and Jan-Gunnar Winther, the director of the Norwegian Polar Institute. | ||
Quezon City | 200 | Members of 350.org gathered at the Quezon Memorial Circle to show support for the scientific community. | ||
Cluj-Napoca | 50 | The march took place on the route Union Square – Heroes' Avenue – Avram Iancu Square – 21 December 1989 Boulevard – Union Square. | ||
Cape Town | ||||
Durban | 200 | The march started at city hall and ended at the South African Research Council. Organizers encouraged women and young participants to pursue work in scientific fields. | ||
Seoul | 1,000 | Organizers set up fifteen educational booths in front of the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts to communicate information about various scientific fields, including biology and robotics. Ten speeches were given starting at 2 PM. At 3 PM, protestors marched from the Sejong Center to the Gwanghwamun district and back. | ||
Barcelona | hundreds | A roundtable discussion was held that included journalists, scientists and science policy officials. A "pro-science manifesto" was read in Spanish, Catalan, and English. | ||
Madrid | ||||
Gothenburg | 250-500 hundreds | |||
Stockholm | 2,500 | |||
Geneva | 600 | |||
Kampala | ||||
Kiev | ~ 100 | |||
Bristol | hundreds | |||
Cardiff | A few hundred | Crowd estimate by attendee. | ||
Edinburgh | 2,000+ | |||
London | 10,000 | Marching took place between the Science Museum and Parliament Square. Jon Butterworth called the issue "not very partisan" in the UK. | ||
Manchester | hundreds | Protestors assembled in Albert Square outside Manchester Town Hall. | ||
Ho Chi Minh City | 6 |