Citizen Science 2017 – Filling the ‘ethics gaps’ in Citizen Science research

The workshop was organised by the ethics working group of the Citizen Science Association, and organised by Anne Bowser - Wilson Center; Lisa Rasmussen - University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Caren Cooper - North Carolina State University and North Carolina Museum of Nature Sciences. The charter for the working group was to identify what are the ethical …

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Citizen Science 2017 – Day 2 (Afternoon) – online projects insights and final reception with The Crowd and the Cloud

The afternoon session started with Web development insights Taking on the Challenges of Broadening Participation in Data Visualization and Analysis with FieldScope Daniel Edelson - BSCS - cover fieldscope that allow people to collect data, design the form, and visualise and analyse it. He covered the Chesapeake Watershed Water Quality study. The area that influences the …

Citizen Science 2017 – Day 2 (Morning) – Biohacking, traditional ecological knowledge, and science communication

Keynote by Dr. Ellen Jorgensen is co-founder and Executive Director of Genspace, a community biolab. She brings DIY-Bio to the conference. Her experience from the previous conference was the experience of "people want me only for my visual cortex" - contributory projects that are science led. Ellen interested in Public driven, public analysed of citizen science. …

Citizen Science 2017 – Day 1 (Afternoon) – Tools, overcoming barriers, and project slam

The Afternoon session started with Tools for people running projects including the presentation about Doing It Together Science project Breaking the Barriers to Citizen Science Artemis Skarlatidou* - University College London; Alice Sheppard - University College London; Muki Haklay - University College London; Claudia Goebel - European Citizen Science Association.  Alice Sheppard presented the talk, exploring the …

Citizen Science 2017 – Day 1 (Morning): Flint Water Study, EPA use of citizen science and engagement

Shannon Dosemagen introduces the keynote speakers by pointing that citizen science provides a way to question how science is done and how is doing it. Within citizen science, it is important to notice that scientific degrees don't always translate to leadership. The keynotes speakers where Dr. Marc Edwards (Virgina Tech) &  LeeAnne Walters (Coalition for Clean …

Citizen Science 2017 – workshops day and opening panel

The Citizen Science Association conference is held at the River Center in St Paul, Minnesota on 17th to 20th May. This post and the following ones are notes that were taken during the meeting in the sessions that I've attended. Wednesday was dedicated to workshops, and I joined the Citizen Science at College level workshop. Organised by Thomas …

Reblogged: CitSci2017 – Call for leading volunteers

It's time to start thinking about the Citizen Science Association (CSA) conference in 2017, but conference don't happen by themselves, so the CSA published CitSci2017: Call for leading volunteers - a call for the people who will form the core of the organising committee.