We urge future use of consistent terminology and acknowledgement to facilitate tracking the
impact of citizen science across numerous disciplines.
Methods of citizen science are being opened up to projects in social science to study discrimination and human - rights abuses and to support local peoples in better representing themselves to outsiders.
Another
sign of citizen science's growing importance is a boom in products, many of them developed collaboratively, to help volunteers in the field.
Children of all ages will delight in this introduction to the science of climate change — a thrilling inspiration for one and all to get outdoors and experience the
adventure of citizen science.
Our team
of citizen science volunteers at Skeptical Science has published a new survey in the journal Environmental Research Letters of over 12,000 peer - reviewed climate science papers, as the Guardian reports today.
Federal agencies including NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), as well as nongovernment platforms such as the new open - source site CrowdCrafting, substantially expanded the number and diversity
of citizen science programs available in 2013.
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.
While conducting field surveys as a
part of his citizen science initiative «My laterite, My habitat,» independent researcher Mr Ramit Singal, who is one of the authors of the journal paper, spotted the frog in laterite habitats in and around the coastal town of Manipal, Udupi District, Karnataka State, India.
Co-author Dr Helen Roy from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said, «This study demonstrates the
value of a citizen science approach for tracking an invasive alien species in both space and time and understanding how environmental conditions may exacerbate spread.»
«The coupling
of citizen science approaches with global collaborations among researchers will provide the scale of information required to address some of the complex ecological questions that remain unanswered,» Roy says, explaining what the future holds for research related to the harlequin ladybird.
The day «celebrates the work of citizen scientists and the
diversity of citizen science projects across the world, encourages the public to get...
Have the great and the good at the Royal Society or the equivalent American organisations which spend millions trying to popularise science praised this
example of citizen science in action?
The event highlighted the contributions
of citizen science for addressing national priority challenges including coastal resilience, pollinators, and public health.
The NSF - supported Aurorasaurus project leverages the power
of citizen science by amassing data from thousands of aurora watchers around the world who help track the auroras in real - time.
It created the Massively Multiplayer Online Science concept - which is the seamless integration
of citizen science with major videogames using the MMOS Platform as the connecting service.
In fact,
because of citizen science efforts at Mass Audubon, the eastern whip - poor - will, one of the inaugural Birds to Watch, was recently listed as a Species of Special Concern in Massachusetts, affording it more protection.
While many researchers
think of citizen science as a way to engage children and teenagers, many of citizen scientists are adults, some of whom bring scientific expertise from other fields, she said.
Matching the right volunteers with the right projects is another way to make the
most of citizen science, Cawood said.
By measuring the length, width and height of moose craniums — on 662 skulls gathered on Isle Royale by
hundreds of citizen science volunteers over four decades — clear patterns emerge.
As an example, Bonney described a talk he gives each March to science communication students about the current
role of citizen science in research.
Help researchers classify Victorian - era science drawings and map the origins of citizen science
The experience, which included an introduction to the core
principles of citizen science and working with other participants to design and pitch a proposal for a citizen science - based project, was «very inspiring,» says Heil, who defended her thesis in December and is currently a postdoc in her Ph.D. lab.
Given the invisible
prevalence of citizen science in advancing this one area of global change research, we suspect it also common in many other areas of inquiry such as studies of land - use change, invasive species, and environmental pollutants, to name a few.
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.
Participants of this citizen science project assume all responsibility for following the rules and regulations of the areas in which they are surveying, including all notices of private property and no trespassing warnings.
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.
Another example of the
importance of citizen science data can be found in a study recently published in the journal Biological Conservation, which documents severe declines in monarch overwintering populations in California.
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In addition to that age old science story, I love the simplicity of the idea, the reference to Isaac Newton, and the
inclusion of citizen science.
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.
The goal of this workshop was to bring together local teachers with Arctic researchers to raise
awareness of citizen science and community - based monitoring in Arctic communities.