Jelle Kabbes is assistant country coordinator for GLOBE in The Netherlands and a geography teacher at Rembrandt College. He co-designed a project for sustainable urban lighting called GLOBE National Light Measurement. Students all over the Netherlands build their own spectroscope in science or geography class. The teacher assigns the students a neighborhood by using a GIS-environment. The students visit the neighborhood and observe through their spectroscope which kind of lighting residents use: incandescent, compact fluorescent, or LED. Data is entered in GIS. Schools in urban environments have to be creative in finding research sites for citizen science. This is one example. Jelle is looking for partners for international citizen science projects studying weather and water on shared rivers. Besides the scientific goals and student development, he’s keen on the cultural, social, and language skills that citizen science can support. Mr. Kabbes’ plenary session shared lessons from GLOBE National Light Measurements and his thoughts on cooperatively researching the Rhine River. For more information on the COST Action Workshop on Synergies Between Education & Citizen Science, visit: http://alpineinstitute-las.org/science/cost-workshop-2018/

1. Citizen Science in urban environments Jelle Kabbes
GLOBE Netherlands
Teacher geography
Rembrandt College

3. Lifespan Light bulb 1500 hours
Lifespan Energy saving lamp 10,000 hours
Lifespan LED lamp 50,000 hours (33 times more durable than incandescent lamp)

4. Schipluiden, The Netherlands

5. Las Vegas, United States

6. Hongkong

7. Macau

8. Schipluiden, The Netherlands

9. “HOW SUSTAINABLE IS THE LIGHTING IN YOUR NEIGHBOORHOOD?
GLOBE Citizen Science project for geography and science students

11. National Light Measurement

12. Build your own spectroscope

13. Observe spectrum
Collect data

14. Enter and visualize data

15. Feedback and results
https://youtu.be/1edl-6PUH00

16. Possibilities for improvement
• Making year to year mapping comparisons possible
• Launch campaigns for sustainability and savings
• The search for topic related funding partners

17. Limitations to this project particulary
• Not all houses/rooms/lights are visible
• Seasonal research in darkest months only
• Privacy, you need to inform citizens

18. Limitations to this subject
“A central aim of the “lighting revolution” (the transition to solid-state
lighting technology) is decreased energy consumption. This could be
undermined by a rebound effect of increased use in response to
lowered cost of light.” (Science Advances 2017, American Association for the Advancement of
Science)

19. New goals for improvement
• Awareness of light polution
• Effect on biodiversity
• From cheaper to smarter
• Decrease unnecessary lighting

20. • “I want to work with NASA!”
• “It’s not a book, it’s REAL”
• “I can build and use instruments”
• “My teacher is so much happier when he
is outside”
Why do you think Citizen Science is fun?

21. • Explore, go outside
• Use senses, eyes, ears etc.
• Curiousity
• Sense of purpose
• Community Based
• Activate, do, make
• Unconventional, something different
• Together, share, compare and exchange
• Visual, mapping, noticeable
• Competetive element
Which ingredients form a blue-print for CS succes?

22. Which threats are there for CS in schools?
• Extra curriculary approach VS integrated in curricula
• Multi curriculary approach > Is it science? Is it geography?
• Traditional approach among teachers to education
• Figures/results VS growth
• Traditional approach towards time VS invest time

23. MEIN RHEIN
International Citizen Science Project
GLOBE water measurement protocols
A joint project from source in the Swiss
Alps to the Dutch delta’s
Schools within a range of 10km of the
Rhine
ICPR • International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine
IKSR • Internationale Kommission zum Schutz des Rheins
CIPR • Commission Internationale pour la Protection du Rhin
ICBR • Internationale Commissie ter Bescherming van de Rijn
Supported by:

24. Waterquality, floods, biodiversity, fish
migration
Measure, share, compare, explore, visit
Cultural diversity, community
MEIN RHEIN
ICPR • International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine
IKSR • Internationale Kommission zum Schutz des Rheins
CIPR • Commission Internationale pour la Protection du Rhin
ICBR • Internationale Commissie ter Bescherming van de Rijn
Supported by:

25. Interested in Mein Rhein?
Schools, scientists, experts on CS,
simular projects, watermanagement,
digital mapping etc.
j.kabbes@rembrandt-college.nl
jellekabbes@hotmail.com
ICPR • International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine
IKSR • Internationale Kommission zum Schutz des Rheins
CIPR • Commission Internationale pour la Protection du Rhin
ICBR • Internationale Commissie ter Bescherming van de Rijn
Supported by: