Mountain streams flushing litter to the sea – Andean rivers as conduits for plastic pollution

Honorato‐Zimmer, Daniela; Kiessling, Tim; Gatta‐Rosemary, Magdalena; Campodónico, Celeste Kroeger; Núñez-Farías, Paloma; Rech, Sabine; Thiel, Martín

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118166

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“…Teachers also submit the observations to the scientific team and are first to receive the collective results, ideally in a timely fashion so that they can share them with the schoolchildren who participated in the research. The scientific team also evaluates the data to answer the scientific questions, interprets the findings, prepares them for scientific publication and shares them with decision-makers and with the public via media outlets [246][247][248] .…”

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Citizen science in environmental and ecological sciences

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Citizen science, broadly defined as public participation in scientific research and knowledge production, is becoming an increasingly well developed and valued approach with global reach and used in a wide range of scientific domains [1][2][3] . Much of this growth is driven by the availability of information technology infrastructures such as mobile phones and low-cost sensors for gathering and reporting data, the internet for sharing data, and cloud storage for hosting and storing data 4,5 . Growing literacy levels and educational attainment in many parts of the world also make it possible for many more people to contribute to knowledge creation in a meaningful way 6,7 .Citizen science initiatives involve the public in the research process to generate genuine scientific outcomes [8][9][10][11] . These outcomes include discoveries, such as in astrophysics 12 and archaeology projects 13 ; new insights, such as in epidemiology 14 and socio-linguistics projects 15 ; evidence-based policymaking, such as in pollution-monitoring initiatives [16][17][18] ; interventions such as in public health research 19 ; and environmental governance, including in ecology and biodiversity monitoring initiatives [20][21][22] . Citizen science research can fill important data gaps across both time and space 23 , which might not otherwise be possible without the contribution of many participants, including people with local and lay knowledge 24,25 or Indigenous knowledge 26,27 .

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Section: Box 2 | Collaborative Creation Of Scientific Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%