Sentences with phrase «citizen scientist research»

This year, you'll travel to sites we're working to conserve, where you'll participate in citizen scientist research, conservation service activities, or even go on an overseas adventure.

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Shedd acknowledges and appreciates all volunteer citizen scientists and extends its gratitude to organizations facilitating the research efforts, including the Park District of Highland Park, Urban Ecology Center, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Ridges Sanctuary, Door County Land Trust, Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission, and the Huron Mountain Club.

Led by Dr. Chuck Knapp, vice president of conservation research at Shedd Aquarium, the team of citizen scientists explored several cays on Andros Island in search of adult and juvenile iguanas for the aquarium's mark - recapture studies.

In late April, Shedd Aquarium's conservation research team and citizen scientists traveled to Andros Island in the Bahamas to study the endangered Andros Island rock iguana (Cyclura cychlura ssp.

The citizen scientists were indispensable for this research project, says Karine Prince, who is a postdoctoral research associate at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and is the lead author of the new report.

She calls, in particular, for the expanded use of autonomous platforms, telepresence — i.e., allowing scientists to participate in research cruises via satellite links — and crowd - sourcing («citizen science») approaches.

To improve the current culture, the team argues that increased data sharing will allow more diverse people to actively participate in research, such as early - career scientists and those from underrepresented groups; scientists from smaller or historically less - influential institutions; citizen - scientists; and scientists from the Global South, scientists from Africa, South and Central America, and much of Asia who are often excluded from leading research.

«These scientists combined citizen science observations with data from radar, satellites and weather predictions to understand the cues birds use in their migrations across continents,» said Liz Blood, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Program.

Background: Wild Life of Our Homes is a research project where citizen scientists help researchers study the species that live alongside us everyday — the bacteria, fungi and viruses that make up a home's microbiome.

The work was partially funded with a $ 100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's citizen science initiative, which encourages scientists to find ways to expand knowledge of and access to research.

Although scientists are considered international citizens, they are still bounded by rules and regulations implemented by funding agencies, research institutions, and political will of their nations.

Further, it opens up the door for citizen scientists to get involved with auroral research.

Wayne J. Riley, MD, MPH, MBA, MACP, president of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, said, «These findings reflect the breadth of subjects pursued by scientists at SUNY Downstate and illustrate how funded research is important to keeping our citizens both healthy and safe.»

The work of the 2.3 million volunteer citizen scientists who contribute to biodiversity research have an economic value of up to $ 2.5 billion per year, said Jennifer Gustetic, assistant director for open innovation in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President.

Parks can be hubs for basic and applied science where citizen scientists can take part in research, he said.

«The loss of fully trained citizen scientists from the research establishment is occurring at an increasing rate,» he says.

They argue that scientists are being led by the nose by citizens and that when you have ordinary people formulating research questions and hypothesizing or being involved in the study, it makes it illegitimate, it takes away the good science.

«It would have taken our researchers 18 months to do what citizen scientists did in just three months,» says Amy Carton, citizen science lead at Cancer Research UK.

As part of Zooniverse's Orchid Observers project, citizen scientists can photograph wild orchids throughout the summer of 2015 and annotate images of the London Natural History Museum's more than 10,000 specimens to contribute to climate change research.

«There is a $ 37 - billion - dollar - a-year industry for scientific research equipment that never saw individual users, like citizen scientists, as a market,» says Shannon Dosemagen, co-founder of DIY community Public Lab, which creates and sells tools, such as $ 10 mini-spectrometers, to collect and analyze data.

NG: Every scientist ought to be a citizen two or three days a year and see their two senators and see their House member, as citizens, and legitimately represent their beliefs about science and their beliefs about research investment and their beliefs about education reform.

Let us start anew with space - based research worthy of a great city, where schools and universities work together, where citizens and communities partner to ensure the success of future generations, where Houstonians lead the charge for students, teachers, parents, scientists and engineers far and wide.

But these protections were judged burdensome because they prevented the provision of benefits to certain other classes of people: the benefits to scientists of being able to pursue favored research, and the benefits to citizens of potential medical treatments.

With the help of citizen scientists, the research team has identified seven dust particles and residues - less than 1 millionth of a metre across - that are consistent with interstellar dust, which they have documented in an academic paper entitled «Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft» and published in the journal Science.

So Zooniverse — which enlists everyday people to help with big research projects — set up a website where citizen scientists like you can help map Mars» south pole, and the strange terrain that goes with it.

«There is considerable interest in the policy community, among scientists themselves, and among engaged citizens to understand how the fast - paced world of scientific inquiry and innovation is shaping our world,» Michael Dimock, the president of Pew Research Center, said in a statement.

Members of the OAIE can share resources and engage in online discussions, and, in doing so, will enhance stakeholder interactions and build well - informed communities working to respond and adapt to ocean acidification.The OAIE invites anyone working on ocean acidification to join, including but not limited to government, tribal, and academic research scientists, citizen scientists, experiential and formal educators, NGO employees, marine resources managers, policy makers, concerned citizens, aquaculturists, people in the fishing industry, technology developers, and data managers.

«With the additions that citizen scientists as detectives can make, professional research scientists will be able to conduct more research into our changing world, and do so much more effectively.»

Policy makers, scientists, and private citizens around the world who are interested in genomic research are discussing complex issues regarding ethics, social identity, and personal health.

As a public service scientist, Maria uses experimental research methodologies and knowledge of how humans behave in the real world to guide public policy challenges and to improve citizen services.

These crowd - sourced results are being published in the journal Icarus and highlight the ability of citizen scientists to advance planetary research.

Dr Michael Holick, the scientist who discovered vitamin D3 back in the 1970s and has devoted his career to researching it, estimates that 50 % of US citizens are deficient.

The project's aim is to allow the secondary school students to contribute to real world research as citizen scientists.

As an example, the science education research community uses the term science literacy to talk about the knowledge and skills needed to engage with science as both citizens and scientists.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is a science - based nonprofit group working for a healthy environment and a safer world and combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.

While nothing is prescriptive, outcomes from Turning the Tide could include identifying creative ways to use new technology to mobilize «citizen scientists» on behalf of environmental research; or a commitment from business leaders in attendance to support a public education campaign advancing the «triple bottom line» model of economic, environmental and societal success.

All our expeditions are hosted by Nicole Nasby Lucas from the Marine Conservation Science Institute and / or by our CEO and citizen scientist Martin Graf who will share their knowledge with powerpoint presentations of their research, instructions on how to identify the individual sharks and they are always available to answer questions.

Just as Paglen works with hobbyist astronomers, curator Tyler Stallings, whose show «Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration» will be seen next year at the Sweeney Art Gallery at the University of California, Riverside, comments that the «idea of citizen scientists, a burgeoning movement, shows a shift from scientists informing the public about what's good for them to research often done by amateurs.»

If a scientist speaking as an informed citizen leaves his or her research hat (and, in Dr. Hansen's case, NASA jacket) hanging on the wall while speaking as a citizen, is this possible?

I'd think anyone aspiring to the title of «citizen scientist,» or frequenting a blog where the idea of challenging mainstream assumptions is championed, would want to look directly at what the research says rather than having it filtered by bloggers of whatever bias or just making WAGs.

Scientists are making more and more of these observations, and the authors tell how young people in Siberia, Canada, Mexico, and throughout the U.S. are involved in such citizen science programs that support scientists in their climateScientists are making more and more of these observations, and the authors tell how young people in Siberia, Canada, Mexico, and throughout the U.S. are involved in such citizen science programs that support scientists in their climatescientists in their climate research.

The David Suzuki Foundation joined the U.S. - based SciStarter program, which connects scientists and community leaders to more than 1,100 citizen science projects and to anyone wishing to contribute to scientific research.

The most unforgiveable unethical behavior surrounding the entire issue of «hiding the decline» and similar biases in published research, is when climate change scientists who know about their — «cherry picking the data», — biased and selective presentation of all data pertinent to published paper conclusions, and — outright errors in their data and peer - reviewed papers, don't speak out loudly in the media outlets that have misled the general public in reporting about their flawed, misleading research, as well as, associated journals and professional societies, to stop politicians and government regulators from using their flawed and misleading research results to pass laws and regulations that have severe effects on the prosperity and quality of life of their fellow citizens of the US and the world.

Jacquie McGlade is a world renowned scientist who has pioneered research in the dynamics of ecosystems, citizen science and social and environmental informatics.

The pages can be adjusted so that they provide useful information for both a schoolchild and a research biologist alike, with an emphasis on encouraging «citizen - scientists» to add their sightings.

Through Galaxy Zoo «citizen scientists» take part in helping professional astronomers assemble valuable data for research and exploration.