To show
the influence of citizen science on current research, Cooper and her colleagues evaluated a review paper written by 27 ornithologists.
For Cooper, these results showed both that researchers had strong confidence in data from volunteers and revealed that
the influence of citizen science on the study of birds and climate change was greater than is commonly acknowledged.
Not exact matches
Citizens» control over spending is not direct,
of course, but in most Western countries public attitudes
influence how well or how poorly appropriators fund
science.
The research made use
of the weather@home
citizen -
science project, part
of Oxford's climateprediction.net climate modelling experiment, to model possible weather for January 2014 in both the current climate and one in which there was no human
influence on the atmosphere.
As part
of this effort I have become acutely aware
of man's
influence on both these environments and set up CoralWatch, a
citizen science and education outreach program 12 years ago.