This session celebrates science that could not have happened without a wholly or largely public process or platform that enabled volunteers to participate in scientific work. From gaming to data analysis to fieldwork, public participation has pushed science forward in interesting, unexpected, and productive ways.

From questions tiny to gargantuan, local to global to universal investigations, and across the full spectrum of geoscience research and beyond, participatory methods are generating new knowledge, identifying new species and objects, and helping explicate natural processes. This includes research drawing on volunteer contributions in conjunction with machine learning, from refining training data to validating outputs, surfacing anomalies, revealing bias, enabling serendipitous discovery, and framing new questions. 

We invite submissions from all disciplines describing research findings made possible by the contributions of members of the public. In addition to the science, we welcome submissions sharing other impacts of participatory methods on science and society.

• EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
• OS - Ocean Sciences
• P - Planetary Sciences
• SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics