The Neighborhood Nestwatch Program: Participant Outcomes of a Citizen‐Science Ecological Research Project

Evans, Celia A.; Abrams, Eleanor; Reitsma, Robert; Roux, Karin; Salmonsen, Laura; Marra, Peter P.

doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00s01.x

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“…Nests were found by participants in Neighborhood Nestwatch, a Smithsonian citizen science program (Evans et al 2005). All nests were in residential or suburban areas where robins fed on nearby lawns and from fruiting shrubs.…”

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Mosquito Landing Rates on Nesting American Robins (Turdus migratorius)

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Kilpatrick²,

Clark³

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Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

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We measured mosquito landing rates on adult and nestling American robins at nests with infrared cameras in Washington, D.C., and Maryland, United States. Mosquitoes landed on nesting robins almost exclusively between dusk and dawn. The mean number of mosquito landings per night was higher for adults (123.3 ± SE 32.8) than nestlings (37.26 ± 14.8). The fraction of mosquitoes landing at a nest on nestlings increased with decreases in adult brooding. Oral swabs from nestlings at these and 13 other robin, Gray catbird, and house finch nests were negative for West Nile virus (WNV). These results show that landing rates were higher on adults and that parental brooding reduces the landing rates of mosquitoes on nestlings.

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Mosquito Landing Rates on Nesting American Robins (Turdus migratorius)

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Clark³

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“…This research suggested that a variety of motivating factors brought people to the site, including a desire to contribute to research, an interest in the topic of astronomy and the incentive of looking at galaxies that no one else had seen before (Raddick et al, 2010(Raddick et al, , 2013. The importance of interest in the topic has been seen elsewhere, for example, in the research conducted by Evans, Abrams, & Reitsma (2005) which relied upon the citizen scientists' inherent interest in their local area when collecting data about birds in the environment nearby. Other studies have shown that reasons for engagement in such studies can change over the course of a study, and are affected by the levels of interaction between researchers and citizen scientists (Rotman et al, 2012).…”

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Exploring the effects of non-monetary reimbursement for participants in HCI research

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Cox

Gould

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When running experiments within the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) it is common practice to ask participants to come to a specified lab location, and reimburse them monetarily for their time and travel costs. This, however, is not the only means by which to encourage participation in scientific study. Citizen science projects, which encourage the public to become involved in scientific research, have had great success in getting people to act as sensors to collect data or to volunteer their idling computer or brain power to classify large data sets across a broad range of fields including biology, cosmology and physical and environmental science. This is often done without the expectation of payment. Additionally, data collection need not be done on behalf of an external researcher; the Quantified Self (QS) movement allows people to reflect on data they have collected about themselves. This too, then, is a form of non-reimbursed data collection. Here we investigate whether citizen HCI scientists and those interested in personal data produce reliable results compared to participants in more traditional lab-based studies. Through six studies, we explore how participation rates and data quality are affected by recruiting participants without monetary reimbursement: either by providing participants with data about themselves as reward (a QS approach), or by simply requesting help with no extrinsic reward (as in citizen science projects). We show that people are indeed willing to take part in online HCI research in the absence of extrinsic monetary reward, and that the data generated by participants who take part for selfless reasons, rather than for monetary reward, can be as high quality as data gathered in the lab and in addition may be of higher quality than data generated by participants given monetary reimbursement online. This suggests that large HCI experiments could be run online in the future, without having to incur the equally large reimbursement costs alongside the possibility of running experiments in environments outside of the lab.

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“…Due to the large number of skilled amateurs and willing volunteers, the field of ornithology has enjoyed many successful projects involving the public. Notable examples include the Breeding Bird Survey [5] started in 1966 and nest record counting, initiated by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and continued until today as one of the most prominent online citizen science projects Neighborhood NestWatch [9]. Today, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is supervising over 600 citizen science projects.…”

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ICT Services for open and citizen science

Morzy

2014

World Wide Web

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Ideas of open access, open data and open science are transforming the world of scientific inquiry as we speak. Every day thousands of ordinary citizens are engaging in data collection and data processing, giving rise to the new field of citizen science. Never before has the technology enabled scientists to reach out to such vast numbers of collaborators and show their work to the public. From pattern recognition in Hubble space telescope images of distant galaxies to field observations of migration patterns of birds in the rural areas of United States, the possibilities are countless. Certainly this new trend poses important problems and challenges, but it is also obvious that wide acceptance of citizen science can lead not only to great scientific results, but to the popularization of scientific method among the public. In the paper we examine the current state of citizen science, we outline some of the most interesting and difficult challenges in leading scientific projects on such scale, and we present typologies of citizen science projects. We also provide a survey of ICT tools available for citizen science projects.

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The Neighborhood Nestwatch Program: Participant Outcomes of a Citizen‐Science Ecological Research Project

Cited by 298 publications

References 13 publications

Mosquito Landing Rates on Nesting American Robins (Turdus migratorius)

Mosquito Landing Rates on Nesting American Robins (Turdus migratorius)

Exploring the effects of non-monetary reimbursement for participants in HCI research

ICT Services for open and citizen science

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