Sentences with phrase «using citizen science»

We are using the citizen science regional climate modelling project weather@home to perform large ensembles of the different experiments described below.

The study's authors encourage other directed research programs using citizen science to dedicate their efforts to photo - identification sampling at times and locations separate to regular tourism activities to encourage consistency and avoid data gaps.

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.

One section, for example, describes Stanford University ornithologist Terry Roots» climate change research, which uses citizen science data from Cornell and elsewhere to study shifts in bird migrations.

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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.

Using examples from a range of scientific controversies, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about how best science can contribute to policy - making and a healthy democracy.

Allan and his team used data obtained from agency reports, citizen - science databases and social media for the years 2000 through 2010.

The mission of CFS is to provide excellent laboratory services in support of the administration of justice and public safety for the citizens of Ontario by: 1) providing scientific examinations and interpretations in cases involving injury or death in unusual circumstances, and in crimes against persons or property; 2) presenting independent objective expert testimony to courts in Ontario; 3) conducting research; and 4) presenting educational programs on forensic science for agencies using forensic science services.

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.

«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 Pscience 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 PScience Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Program.

None of the studies mentioned in the review paper used the terms «citizen science» or «citizen scientist.»

She says more researchers should explicitly state when their research relies on «citizen science,» the term she uses to describe «research practices that relies on public contributions of data.»

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.

«Novel data sources from the weather surveillance radar network and the eBird citizen science database enable development of a migration phenology index that can be used to answer this question in future studies.»

The OU study conducted in the eastern United States uses two novel data sources, weather surveillance radar and eBird citizen science data, to build indices of bird migration timing.

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.

Examples of this shift include the familiar social media and social networking sites, like Twitter and Facebook, many people use on a daily basis as well as the likes of Wikipedia and other collaborative ventures, such as citizen science projects.

Although the Netherlands have a good track record in using innovative means to engage the general public in the science and technology debate — Van der Starre mentions the use of citizen panels, in which a diverse group of citizens gathers evidence and develops a statement on a particular scientific development or issue — both Schutter and Van der Starre think PCST can be improved.

Keeping science nonpartisan is a laudable goal, but scientists are human beings who work and live in societies — and have opinions as scientists and citizens when it comes to the use, or perceived misuse, of science.

He and the rest of the Galaxy Zoo science team used classifications provided by citizen scientists to select spiral galaxies across the Universe for the study.

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.

Today, the observatory remains the primary source feeding data to the groundbreaking SETI@home citizen science project, which uses idle computer time to scour the data for alien signals.

The goal is to use citizen - science classifications to create software that researchers worldwide can use to extract information from bat recordings, making it really easy to track bat populations.

The use of remote sensing and other technology, including citizen science, can revolutionize our understanding of air pollution and policies to address it.

But I think one of the things that scientists and other people concerned about science education in the country need to do is make it clear to publishers that as citizens and voters, wherever they live, whatever state or town that they live [in], they will make sure that their elected officials know that textbook X, Y or Z is not to be used in this district because of its bad science.

As a citizen science platform, Treezilla can be used to serve a wide variety scientific objectives.

«Our results highlight that we can use ourselves as Mechanical Turks through «citizen science» to improve and refine model fitting».

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.

«One of the slight difficulties with the kit we've been using is it isn't well suited for the widespread citizen science use,» notes Brewin, who is now testing five smartfins.

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.

Specifically, we urge use of the keyword phrase «citizen science» in papers that rely on scientific contributions from the public.

We urge future use of consistent terminology and acknowledgement to facilitate tracking the impact of citizen science across numerous disciplines.

Using data from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), citizen scientists are examining images of Mars» South Pole mapping the size and directions of seasonal fans.

The paper uses insights gleaned by the Zooniverse citizen science network to investigate strange dips in flux, or light, from the star KIC 8462852.

Whether the technology fuels a citizen - science project or whether the data is available from scientists for use by journalists to plumb for stories, it's a facet of data journalism that is particularly relevant to environmental reporting.

Therefore, we have undertaken a search for new disk - hosting M dwarfs using the Disk Detective citizen science project....

Editor's Note: Although Fran Koontz, the teacher shown in this video, retired in 2008, the Journey North continues to be actively used in schools all over the country, and is considered the nation's premiere «citizen science» project for children.

It was intended for primary school initially but we've found actually that people use it at all levels — universities, senior citizens, science centres, family fun days, that sort of thing.

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.

«What charter schools have done is dramatically expand the choices that consumers - our citizens - get to use so that there are all kinds of different types of schools - longer school days, more intensive language study, science and technology focus... we're giving our citizens more choice than they could ever have imagined 20 years ago.»

Mason et al. (2000) connected technology with development of citizens in democratic societies; Pope and Golub (2000) promoted technology as a literacy tool; Garofalo et al. (2000) and Flick and Bell (2000), respectively, focused on worthwhile mathematics and science in their technology use principles.

Smartphones have been used as tools for scientific discovery ever since they hit the market, from add on accessories for analyzing things found in nature to citizen science apps that use crowdsourcing to classify and track species of plants and animals.

In fact, the group serves as little more than a mouthpiece for Big Carbon and the modern Republican Party which, largely thanks to Citizens United in 2010, now eschews the use of actual science in the public sphere.

This is the same phone number and address Milloy has used for the Citizens for the Integrity of Science, Junkscience.com, NoMoresScares.com, and of course, the defunct The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition.

To do this we use a huge set of data from a citizen science project called Weather@home ANZ.

This lesson uses student - and citizen science - friendly microsets of authentic NASA Earth system science data from the MY NASA DATA project.

This lesson... (View More) uses student - and citizen science - friendly microsets of authentic NASA Earth system science data from the MY NASA DATA project.

uses student - and citizen science - friendly microsets of authentic NASA Earth system science data from the MY NASA DATA project.

Using examples of citizen science projects like Project Budburst, Journey North, and Frogwatch, the authors show that kids have already helped to observe and record how plants and animals change their habitats or behaviors as the climate changes.