We urge future use of consistent terminology and acknowledgement to facilitate tracking
the impact of citizen science across numerous disciplines.
An additional consequence of the invisibility of the scientific
impact of citizen science is that projects may miss the broader social impacts of their work.
Not exact matches
Citizen cientists use their eyes, ears and smartphones to protect birds, frogs and other wildlife - Medill Reports Chicago - October 21, 2016
Citizen science recruiters seeking new volunteers shared the
impact of ongoing projects at The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's inaugural
citizen science fair on Saturday.
Cruickshank aims to promote infection awareness and enable access to
science for all including Manchester's non-native English speakers, and to work with communities to understand allergies and the
impacts of pollution via
citizen science (#BritainBreathing).
Explicit recognition
of citizen science in published papers could promote the communication linkages necessary for broader
impacts by helping shift public discourse associated with modern climate change from controversy to acceptance.
By printing out the
citizen science sheets included here and following the instructions you can join The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback's team to assess the
impacts of a future flock
of passenger pigeons in your own backyard or favorite recreational area.
This searchable database provides a government - wide listing
of citizen science and crowdsourcing projects designed to improve cross-agency collaboration, reveal opportunities for new high -
impact projects, and make it easier for volunteers to find out about projects they can join.
Such technologies also are changing the face
of citizen science, enabling students to enlist in projects through school (or on their own initiative) that have an
impact off campus.
«I think the
impact of having my students do
citizen science and investigations that are connected to the real world is the knowledge sticks,» Hanna says.
STEM helps students understand how the academic principles
of science, technology, engineering and mathematics
impact their world and prepares them for a successful life as a global
citizen.
This is all good for understanding more regional / local
impacts — for adaptation, for strengthening the
science, and inspiring people to implement mitigation measures — but from an ecological
citizen's view, all we need to know at a low level
of confidence is that AGW will be causing some bad things or other to be happening somewhere or other, sometime or other, to people and other creatures to feel the heavy responsibility to mitigate here and now.
For an example
of how that «
citizen science» can really work, look at what Ron Broberg and Zeke Hausfeather are doing with the weather station data — they aren't sitting around declaring that «it can't be done» or that the GISTEMP / CRU / NCDC methods are fixed, they are going into the data, making choices, seeing what
impact they have and determining what is robust.
Because a high percentage
of the arguments made by most proponents
of climate change policy have been focused on adverse climate
impacts that
citizens will experience where they live, while ignoring the harms to hundreds
of millions
of vulnerable poor people around the world that are being affected by GHG emissions from all - high emitting nations, along with claims that mainstream climate
science is credible and has been undermined by morally reprehensible tactics, there is a need to make more people aware
of: