IN015
Citizen Science in Earth Sciences: Enabling New Ways of Answering Questions About Our Planet
Session ID#: 78404
Session Description:
Citizen science enables Earth science researchers to gather data and perform analyses that were previously impossible due to limited resources, including funding and personnel. It also provides new perspectives for understanding environmental problems. Despite its applicability to a wide range of Earth science topics, citizen science has only recently gained popularity to augment remote sensing due to questions about the validation and quality of data and analyses as well as the ability to engage and retain participants. For this session we are interested in projects that use citizen science in innovative ways to expand research in Earth science and satellite observations, focused on scientific questions, applications, and results. We are especially interested in how projects have been able to address questions of data collection, quality, and validation, as well as how working with the public has helped to improve analyses and procedures, including development of new techniques or instruments.
Index Terms:
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1999 General or miscellaneous [INFORMATICS]
Primary Convener: Amanda Whitehurst, ASRC Federal Holding Company, Beltsville, MD, United States
Conveners: Allison Leidner1, Lin H Chambers2 and Kevin J Murphy1, (1)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Primary Liaison: Amanda Whitehurst, ASRC Federal Holding Company, Beltsville, MD, United States
Improvements and Expansion of the Citizen-Enabled Aerosol Measurements for Satellites (CEAMS) Network for High-Resolution Measurements of PM2.5 and Aerosol Optical Depth (507807)
Bonne Ford1, Eric Wendt2, Casey Quinn2, Christian L'Orange2, Zoey Rosen3, Michael Cheeseman1, John Mehaffy2, Jessica Tryner2, Nicholas Good4, Daniel Miller-Lionberg5, Marilee Long3, Shantanu Jathar2, Jeffrey R Pierce1 and John Volckens2, (1)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Mechanical Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Journalism and Media Communication, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (5)Access Sensor Technologies, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Remote Sensing and Animal Distributions: Trailcams, Citizen Scientists and Satellites (Invited) (519763)
Philip A Townsend1, John D.J. Clare2, Benjamin Zuckerberg2, Nanfeng Liu2 and Jennifer Stenglein3, (1)University of Wisconsin, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Office of Applied Sciences, Madison, United States
Combining Citizen Science and Satellite Data to Better Understand Lakes (Invited) (523623)
Tamlin Pavelsky1, Shuai Zhang1, Faisal Hossain2, Sheikh K Ghafoor3, Grant Parkins1, Sarah Yelton1, Sarina Little4 and Megan Elizabeth Rodgers5, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, Seattle, United States, (3)Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, United States, (4)University of North Carolina, Department of Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (5)University of North Carolina, Institute for the Environment, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Global cloud cover: a comparison of satellite, model, and volunteer-reported data (537030)
Matthew Starke, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, United States, Helen Amos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Nathan Arnold, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Tina M Rogerson, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States and Marile Colon-Robles, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Using citizen science data to improve modeling of seasonal snow (554214)
Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Gabriel J Wolken, Dept. of Natural Resources, Fairbanks, AK, United States, David Hill, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Ryan Landon Crumley, Oregon State University, Water Resources Science, Corvallis, OR, United States, Anthony A Arendt, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Jonah Joughin, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Engaging Citizen Scientists in Characterizing Urban Heat Island at the Neighborhood Scale Using Satellite and Ground Observations (592972)
Anna Wheatley Liebowitz1, Elizabeth Anne Sebastian2, Claudia Yanos3, Matthew Bilik4, Justine Ginchereau5, Makini Valentine5, Kirk Xavier Barclay5, Sidney Montoya5, Marlon Rice6, Hamid Norouzi7 and Reginald Blake5, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)Fusion Academy, Brooklyn, United States, (3)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (4)Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (5)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (6)Magnolia Tree Earth Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (7)New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Development of a Low-Cost Citizen Science Soil Moisture Sensor (617929)
Anant Kanungo, Coppell, Texas, United States, Narendra N Das, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States and Erika Podest, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Monitoring avian diversity with bioacoustics analysis, remote sensing and species distribution modeling (619040)
Matthew L Clark1, Leonard Salas2, Scott J Goetz3, Patrick J Burns3, Steven Hancock4 and Shawn Newsam5, (1)Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, United States, (2)Point Blue Conservation Science, Climate Change & Informatics Group, Petaluma, CA, United States, (3)Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (4)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (5)University of California Merced, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Merced, CA, United States
Expanding Citizen Scientist Recruitment and Engagement to Understand Local Air Quality using Low-Cost Sensors (631998)
Prakash Doraiswamy1, K Mills1, Pawan Gupta2, Olga Pikelnaya3, Brandon Feenstra3, Robert C Levy4, Christine L Goforth5, Sagnik Dey6, Hem Dholakia7, Anne Marie Miller1, James Rineer1, Megan Tulloch1 and Andrea Polidori3, (1)RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, CA, United States, (4)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, United States, (6)IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India, (7)CEEW, Delhi, India
The NASA Space Apps Challenge: Leveraging the World’s Largest Hackathon for Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science (634119)
Sarah N Hemmings1, Shobhana Satyendra Gupta2, Ajay Mysore1, Paula S Bontempi1 and Patricia A Jacobberger-Jellison3, (1)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (2)NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (3)NASA HQ-Earth Science Div, Washington, DC, United States
