Combining citizen science and public engagement: the Open AirLaboratories Programme

Riesch, Hauke; Potter, Clive; Davies, L. Ceri

doi:10.22323/2.12030203

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“…Also important is ensuring diversity and inclusion among citizen science participants to encourage broad participation that may foster in-depth scientific learning-by-doing (Bela et al 2016). Practitioners also must understand the range of scientific outcomes that can be communicated to different audiences (Riesch et al 2013), and they should increase and improve collaborations among citizen scientists and professional scientists, across disciplines, to enhance the reach, innovation, and impact of citizen science projects ). In addition, the benefits and impacts of public participation in science will be better measured and understood when projects label themselves under the umbrella term of citizen science.…”

Section: Demonstrate Scientific Benefits Of Citizen Science: Creatingmentioning

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Innovation in Citizen Science – Perspectives on Science-Policy Advances

Hecker

Bonney

Haklay

et al. 2018

CSTP

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Section: Demonstrate Scientific Benefits Of Citizen Science: Creatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Innovation in Citizen Science – Perspectives on Science-Policy Advances

Hecker

Bonney

Haklay

et al. 2018

CSTP

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“…We therefore re-assessed the requirements for usable data and shifted our focus from public engagement to collaboration with an outdoor science school on the third year, effectively trading spatial coverage for usable temporal resolution. This tradeoff between breadth and depth has been previous identified as a potential difficulty facing researchers who delve into citizen science [Riesch, Potter and Davies, 2013].…”

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Challenges and successes in engaging citizen scientists to observe snow cover: from public engagement to an educational collaboration

Dickerson‐Lange¹,

Eitel²,

Dorsey³

et al. 2016

JCOM

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Whereas the evolution of snow cover across forested mountain watersheds is difficult to predict or model accurately, the presence or absence of snow cover is easily observable and these observations contribute to improved snow models. We engaged citizen scientists to collect observations of the timing of distributed snow disappearance over three snow seasons across the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A. . The primary goal of the project was to build a more spatially robust dataset documenting the influence of forest cover on the timing of snow disappearance, and public outreach was a secondary goal. Each year's effort utilized a different strategy, building on the lessons of the previous year. We began by soliciting our professional networks to contribute observations via electronic or paper forms, moved to a public outreach effort to collect geotagged photographs, and finally settled on close collaboration with an outdoor science school that was well-positioned to collect the needed data. Whereas the outreach efforts garnered abundant enthusiasm and publicity, the resulting datasets were sparse. In contrast, direct collaboration with an outdoor science school that was already sending students to make weekly snow observations proved fruitful in both data collection and educational outreach. From a data collection standpoint, the shift to an educational collaboration was successful because it essentially traded wide spatial coverage combined with sparse temporal coverage for dense temporal coverage at a single, but important location. From a public engagement standpoint, the partnership allowed for more intensive participation by more people and enhanced the science curriculum at the collaborating school. Abstract Citizen science; Science education Keywords ContextThe spatial pattern of snow cover across a forested mountain watershed is easily observed by outdoor enthusiasts who readily make note of snow disappearance patterns at a range of scales when they avoid skiing into tree well, change a hiking route after encountering a snow field, or capture a photograph of patchy snow across a valley. Whereas these patterns are obvious to an observer, reproducing such a pattern via a computer model is an ongoing research challenge [Essery et al., ArticleJournal of Science Communication 15(01)(2016)A01 1

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“…In a study of scientist's engagement in Citizen Science, Golumbic et al (2017) suggest three characteristics revealed by the researchers themselves and the current literature in the form of inclusion, contribution and reciprocality. This definition seems to be in close relation to Lewenstein's original theory of the participation and engagement of non-scientists and scientists, including the decision-making and democratic processes (Lewenstein, 2004, p. 1), but with regard to the aspects of reciprocality Golumbic et al (2017) include dissemination of scientific information to the public as potentially valuable, as it can serve as an important factor in science communication and in raising Public Understanding of Science (Bonney et al, 2016;Golumbic et al, 2017, p. 3;Riesch, Potter, & Davies, 2013) as well as Public Engagement of Science (Brossard & Lewenstein, 2009). As AHF includes an external media partner, this dimension seems particularly relevant for that project.…”

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A New Trend in Media and Library Collaboration within Citizen Science? The Case of ‘A Healthier Funen’

Overgaard

Kaarsted²

2018

Liber Quarterly

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Beginning in 2017 three major institutions on the island of Funen, Denmark, collaborated on a Citizen Science project: "A Healthier Funen" (AHF). The partners were a university, a university hospital and a regional broadcaster. The project invokes citizens to vote for the allocation of research funding. In the case study presented here, we analyze the Citizen Science aspects of AHF and the roles of libraries as collaborators, we examine the results and the reach of the project, and we argue that this strand of Citizen Science could be a possible new trend for Library, Faculty and media collaboration. Seen against the background of the scope and definitions of Open Science and LIBER's Open Science Roadmap, the case of AHF suggests that the field of Citizen Science bears great potential in regard of providing a new level of innovation for Libraries: through a collaborative professional approach to science communication, libraries can assume a strategic role together with the Faculty staff. In the context of reciprocality within Citizen Science, the Library can build skills for engaging in projects, adopt toolkits or models, as well as A New Trend in Media and Library Collaboration within Citizen Science?

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Combining citizen science and public engagement: the Open AirLaboratories Programme

Abstract: Citizen Science (or "Public Participation in Scientific Research")

Cited by 53 publications

References 35 publications

Innovation in Citizen Science – Perspectives on Science-Policy Advances

Innovation in Citizen Science – Perspectives on Science-Policy Advances

Challenges and successes in engaging citizen scientists to observe snow cover: from public engagement to an educational collaboration

A New Trend in Media and Library Collaboration within Citizen Science? The Case of ‘A Healthier Funen’

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