In 2013, a team
of citizen science volunteers who collaborate on the climate myth debunking website SkepticalScience.com published a paper finding a 97 % expert consensus on human - caused global warming in peer - reviewed research.
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.
In reviewing videos, Shanley «learned that a focus on the personal stories
of the citizen science volunteers themselves, and what motivated them to contribute to scientific research, made for a much more compelling story than a strict focus on the science.»
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.
Prairie Ridge offers a variety
of volunteer opportunities, including maintaining the Nature Neighborhood Garden and other groundskeeping activities, assisting with educational programs, leading Saturday
citizen science programs, and collecting and / or entering data for
citizen science projects.
In addition to activating teens, the aquarium is also opening the
citizen science project to its
volunteer base
of more than 800.
Varner's primary public engagement is through
citizen science engagement programs, which she views as an opportunity help
volunteers appreciate the natural world, consider local consequences
of climate change and participate in all aspects
of science.
While some
citizen science programs are modeled on the idea that
volunteers are strictly there to learn from professionals, Shirk said
citizen scientists also want to be part
of a discovery and help gather data relevant to a problem that interests them in calling upon programs to embrace learning together.
Varner is an assistant professor
of biology at Colorado Mesa University and a co-founder
of Cascades Pika Watch in Oregon, a collaborative
citizen science program that invites
volunteers to track populations
of pikas, tiny mammals that are vulnerable to the effects
of climate change.
A
citizen science project is seeking
volunteers to scour photos
of Kenyan rocks in a bid to reconstruct past landscapes and environments
«We know that
citizen science projects place huge value on
volunteers because the combined «wisdom
of crowds» achieves so much.
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.
Wide range
of opportunities Bonney was one
of the first to use the term «
citizen science» in 1994 as a way to more easily describe the types
of volunteer - based studies that had become more popular at the university since the end
of the 1980s.
He suggests that online
volunteering and
citizen science projects could incentivise participation by offering clearly defined opportunities for learning, while representing an effective way
of increasing scientific literacy and knowledge within society.
That's unfortunate because using
citizen science in studies would not only highlight
volunteers» role in
science, it could also could attract more investment into future research, said Rick Bonney, director
of program development and evaluation at the Cornell Lab
of Ornithology, who reviewed Cooper's study.
The research surveyed
volunteers on «
citizen science» projects and suggests that this type
of volunteering could be used to increase general knowledge
of science within society.
The
citizen science website is seeking
volunteers to look for fossils and stone tools and to classify rocks captured in aerial photos
of Kenya's Lake Turkana Basin.
Using data collected by thousands
of volunteers through «
citizen science» schemes, responses to recent climate change were seen to vary greatly from species to species.
Launched on April 15, Condor Watch is part
of Zooniverse, a collection
of of web - based
citizen science projects that use the efforts
of volunteers to help researchers deal with the flood
of data that confronts them.
And the ensuing analysis gives
volunteers the chance to see the results
of their
citizen science.
Therapist by day and amateur astronomer by night, Castro joined the NASA - funded Backyard Worlds: Planet 9
citizen science project when it began in February — not knowing she would become one
of four
volunteers to help identify the project's first brown dwarf, formally known as WISEA J110125.95 +540052.8.
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.
«Leveraging a digital control mechanism means we can give value to the millions
of observations collected by
volunteers» and «it allows a new kind
of science where
citizens can directly contribute to the analysis
of global challenges like climate change» say Hamed Mehdipoor and Dr. Raul Zurita - Milla, who work at the Geo - Information Processing department
of ITC.
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.
The GGRO was a
citizen science program long before the term «
citizen science» was invented; our annual team
of about 270
volunteers donate an estimated 44,000 hours
of field biology services each year to make the GGRO's work possible.
Volunteers are also trained to lead island hikes within the national park, participate in numerous local outreach events and to conduct
citizen science, including the collection
of valuable research on marine mammals and other important sanctuary and park resources.
In addition to their valuable education and outreach role, Channel Islands Naturalist Corps (CINC)
volunteers are also trained to conduct
citizen science, including the collection
of valuable research on marine mammals and other important resources within Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park.