ED012
Citizen Science: Increasing Diversity and Supporting Participant Action and Activism
Session ID#: 82231
Session Description:
Citizen science projects are a growing way to engage the public and connect citizen participants to professional scientists. Projects span scientific disciplines and include astronomy, biology, ecology, environmental justice, climate and weather, medicine, and physics, and chemistry. We invite presentations that highlight innovations in recruitment, retention, engagement, and co-creation of citizen science projects that help increase the diversity of participants, contributes to participant learning, and leads to participant action and/or activism. We encourage presentations of innovations that lead to change, evidence based presentations that demonstrate how programs have impacted different stakeholders, and perspectives from citizen scientists themselves related to these topics.
Index Terms:
0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
Primary Convener: Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States; University of Arizona, Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies, Tucson, AZ, United States
Convener: Richard Hechter, University of Manitoba, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Primary Liaison: Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
Incorporating visualization structure into citizen science datasheets improves data quality (503998)
Kendra Walters1, Jennifer Joan Long2, Sara Ludovise3 and Kaitlin Magliano3, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States, (2)University of California, Irvine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Irvine, United States, (3)Crystal Cove Conservancy, Irvine, CA, United States
Citizen science in schools: Environmental education and empowerment in a remote region of western Nepal (534983)
Jonathan D. Paul, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Katarzyna Cieslik, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Saugat Paudel, UNESCO, Kathmandu, Nepal, Neeraj Kumar Sah, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, Puja Shakya, Kathmandu, Nepal, Binod Parajuli, Practical Action Consulting Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, Art Dewulf, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands and Wouter Buytaert, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, United Kingdom
Building Diverse, Equitable, and Productive Public-Scientist Partnerships to Achieve Environmental Justice (Invited) (555610)
Monica Ramirez-Andreotta1, Leona Faye Davis2 and Shana Alysse Sandhaus1, (1)University of Arizona, Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
Globe at Night: Highlighting Innovations in Recruitment, Retention, Engagement, and Co-creation and Supporting Participant Learning and Action (574128)
Constance E Walker1, Elliot Kisiel2 and Mark Newhouse1, (1)National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Demographics, interests, and motivations of participants in a long-term citizen science project (581498)
Gregory R. Goldsmith1, Theresa M Crimmins2, Daisy Haas3, Monroe Roush3 and Monae Verbeke4, (1)Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, (2)USA National Phenology Network, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Orange, CA, United States, (4)Institute for Learning Innovation, Chicago, IL, United States
Citizen Scientists and University Researchers Assess Post-Hurricane Well Water Contamination in North Carolina Environmental Justice Communities (615925)
Kathleen Gray1, Kory Wait2, Rebecca Kriss2, Andrew George3, Marc Edwards4 and Kelsey Pieper4, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States, (4)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
PlastiX-Snow: A Citizen Science Project to Identify Microplastics in Snow (617764)
Laurel Zaima, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Marco Tedesco, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Margie Turrin, LDEO of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Patrick M Alexander, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Shujie Wang, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, David Felton Porter, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Elizabeth Fischer, NASA / GISS, Teaneck, NJ, United States
River Stories: Building science through stories (632620)
Jorge D Abad1, Evelyn Calderon1, Gabriela Flores1, Wan Chantavilasvong2 and Roger Marquez1, (1)Universidad De Ingenieria Y Tecnologia, Centro de Investigacion y Tecnologia del Agua - CITA, Lima, Peru, (2)Chulalongkorn University, Urban and Regional Planning, Bangkok, Thailand
