February 2016 What is Citizen Science AKA crowd science crowdsourced science civic monitoring volunteer monitoring networked science participatory monitoringresearch Scientific research conducted in whole or in part by amateur or nonprofessional scientists ID: 670898
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Citizen Science
An Introduction
February 2016Slide2
What is Citizen Science?
AKA crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic monitoring, volunteer monitoring, networked science, participatory monitoring/research
Scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur or nonprofessional scientists
Photo credit: Brian F PowellSlide3
Jefferson
Powell
Thoreau
Early citizen scientistsSlide4
History of Citizen Science
Known by other names throughout history
Term first entered into Oxford English dictionary in 2014
Great increase in programs in the
1990s
Photo: Albert Herring, Wikimedia commonsSlide5
Dramatic
growth between 1997 to
2014 in publications featuring citizen science
Follet
and
Strezov
, PLOS
ONE
Prevalence of citizen science dataSlide6
The usefulness of citizen science data
North
American Breeding Bird Survey data have contributed to over 500 peer-reviewed publications
Christmas Bird Count, celebrated annually since 1900, is not only one of the largest, longest-running citizen science programs, it is one of the largest ecological datasets available
Cloned lilac project alone has yielded 58 peer-reviewed publicationsSlide7
www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/indicators/ecosystems/bird-ranges.htmlSlide8
Value of citizen science data
Volunteers contribute ~$2.5B annually to biodiversity researchSlide9
Scientific value often underestimated
Evaluated review of 10 claims of impacts of climate change on avian migration
No reference to “citizen science”
found in publications, although citizen
science contributed to 24-77% of references
Significance of citizen science to research greater than perceived
“Quality of data collected by volunteers, on a project-by-project basis, has generally been found as reliable as the data collected by professionals"Slide10
2012.
Primack
, R. B, Miller-Rushing, A.J
7 day average
61
years
2-3 week average
1999. Bradley, N.L., Leopold, C.A., Ross, J.,
Huffacker
, W.
Sandhill
crane and geeseSlide11
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