Citizen science involves members of the public participating in scientific research projects to contribute data and observations. This document discusses how the WildLab program uses a mobile app to engage students in citizen science projects related to birds, weather, and other topics. The app allows students to identify species, record observations, and share data with scientists. Teachers found the app easy to use and that it increased students' science content knowledge and interest in science careers. The goal is for students to use local technology to connect to global problems and become empowered citizen scientists of the future.
The Psychology of Energy Conservation: Are You Smarter Than A Refrigerator?swissnex San Francisco
The document summarizes the Stanford ARPA-E Initiative which aims to reduce energy usage through sensors, feedback, and information technology. It received $3.7 million in funding over 2 years from 37 awards. The interdisciplinary project involves 20 projects, 15 faculty, and 30+ students across 10 departments. It seeks to leverage wireless energy sensors, behavioral science, and user engagement to drive a 10% reduction in energy use through eliminating waste, encouraging efficient behaviors, and providing interactive feedback. A combination of energy sensors, web/mobile interfaces, and behavioral change interventions are integrated to motivate households to reduce their energy consumption.
Cloud-native machine learning - Transforming bioinformatics research Denis C. Bauer
Cloud computing and artificial intelligence transforms bioinformatics research
Denis Bauer, Transformational Bioinformatics Team
Genomic data is outpacing traditional Big Data disciplines, producing more information than Astronomy, twitter, and YouTube combined. As such, Genomic research has leapfrogged to the forefront of Big Data and Cloud solutions. We developed software platforms using the latest in cloud architecture, artificial intelligence and machine learning to support every aspect genome medicine; from disease gene detection through to validation and personalized medicine.
This talk outlines how we find disease genes for complex genetic diseases, such as ALS, using VariantSpark, which is a custom machine learning implementation capable of dealing with Whole Genome Sequencing data of 80 million common and rare variants. To support disease gene validation, we created GT-Scan, which is an innovative web application, which we think of it as the “search engine for the genome”. It enables researchers to identify the optimal editing spot to create animal models efficiently. The talk concludes by demonstrating how cloud-based software distribution channels (digital Marketplaces) can be harnessed to share bioinformatics tools internationally and make research more reproducible.
This document discusses citizen science and distributed computation. It provides examples of citizen science projects that involve volunteers collecting and reporting environmental data to help scientists study changes over broad areas and long periods. These projects employ distributed systems to facilitate communication between scientists and volunteers and to share and analyze the collected data. The document emphasizes that citizen science can further scientific understanding while also promoting science literacy among the public.
The document summarizes a proposal for a Water and Environmental Hub that would become an open source, web-based platform to connect water and environmental data, tools, and people. It notes that currently, a significant amount of time is spent trying to find data, which is dispersed across different sources. The Hub would make data openly accessible online using cloud computing and web technologies, reducing time and costs spent on data acquisition while enabling research, innovation, and economic opportunities. It would take a distributed approach, keeping data with owners but acting as a virtual database, and use standards to integrate water management, research, government, and other sectors.
The document outlines several student performance indicators related to using technology to complete projects on various topics:
1) Producing a digital story about a local event using interviews and multimedia editing software.
2) Creating an advertisement for a healthy diet by illustrating a poem about vegetable gardening and incorporating the illustrations.
3) Conducting a science experiment on weather trends using graphing software and online resources to track and present weather data.
4) Debating the effects of technology on individuals, society, and communities by conducting a poll and discussing ethical and social impacts.
The Psychology of Energy Conservation: Are You Smarter Than A Refrigerator?swissnex San Francisco
The document summarizes the Stanford ARPA-E Initiative which aims to reduce energy usage through sensors, feedback, and information technology. It received $3.7 million in funding over 2 years from 37 awards. The interdisciplinary project involves 20 projects, 15 faculty, and 30+ students across 10 departments. It seeks to leverage wireless energy sensors, behavioral science, and user engagement to drive a 10% reduction in energy use through eliminating waste, encouraging efficient behaviors, and providing interactive feedback. A combination of energy sensors, web/mobile interfaces, and behavioral change interventions are integrated to motivate households to reduce their energy consumption.
Cloud-native machine learning - Transforming bioinformatics research Denis C. Bauer
Cloud computing and artificial intelligence transforms bioinformatics research
Denis Bauer, Transformational Bioinformatics Team
Genomic data is outpacing traditional Big Data disciplines, producing more information than Astronomy, twitter, and YouTube combined. As such, Genomic research has leapfrogged to the forefront of Big Data and Cloud solutions. We developed software platforms using the latest in cloud architecture, artificial intelligence and machine learning to support every aspect genome medicine; from disease gene detection through to validation and personalized medicine.
This talk outlines how we find disease genes for complex genetic diseases, such as ALS, using VariantSpark, which is a custom machine learning implementation capable of dealing with Whole Genome Sequencing data of 80 million common and rare variants. To support disease gene validation, we created GT-Scan, which is an innovative web application, which we think of it as the “search engine for the genome”. It enables researchers to identify the optimal editing spot to create animal models efficiently. The talk concludes by demonstrating how cloud-based software distribution channels (digital Marketplaces) can be harnessed to share bioinformatics tools internationally and make research more reproducible.
This document discusses citizen science and distributed computation. It provides examples of citizen science projects that involve volunteers collecting and reporting environmental data to help scientists study changes over broad areas and long periods. These projects employ distributed systems to facilitate communication between scientists and volunteers and to share and analyze the collected data. The document emphasizes that citizen science can further scientific understanding while also promoting science literacy among the public.
The document summarizes a proposal for a Water and Environmental Hub that would become an open source, web-based platform to connect water and environmental data, tools, and people. It notes that currently, a significant amount of time is spent trying to find data, which is dispersed across different sources. The Hub would make data openly accessible online using cloud computing and web technologies, reducing time and costs spent on data acquisition while enabling research, innovation, and economic opportunities. It would take a distributed approach, keeping data with owners but acting as a virtual database, and use standards to integrate water management, research, government, and other sectors.
The document outlines several student performance indicators related to using technology to complete projects on various topics:
1) Producing a digital story about a local event using interviews and multimedia editing software.
2) Creating an advertisement for a healthy diet by illustrating a poem about vegetable gardening and incorporating the illustrations.
3) Conducting a science experiment on weather trends using graphing software and online resources to track and present weather data.
4) Debating the effects of technology on individuals, society, and communities by conducting a poll and discussing ethical and social impacts.
Crowdsourcing gene predictions & estimating population sizesBruno Vieira
Talk presented on the 28 February 2014, at the Queen Mary, University of London for a seminar of the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences.
HTML5 Slides: http://bmpvieira.com/seminar14
Citizen Social Science - Swarm and Nominet TrustSwarm
Citizen Social Science is an exploratory collaboration between Nominet Trust, Swarm and a wider community including citizen scientists, developers, game designers, data analysts, graphic/UX designers, data visualisers and social innovators.
1 Environmental Sustainability Ws Tony Vetterguest17df6
The document discusses how mobile applications can promote environmental sustainability. It describes several examples of applications that use mobile phones to track wildlife, engage citizens in environmental activism and monitoring, and enable participatory urban sensing projects. Some challenges to wider adoption are ensuring privacy, accuracy of data, and preventing misuse of sensor systems. Mobile technologies are a promising tool to address sustainability issues through observation, public engagement, and coordinated action on environmental threats.
The MYGEOSS project aims to stimulate use of open Earth observation data through innovative citizen apps. An initial call received 58 app proposals from SMEs, universities, and individuals across Europe. Ten winning apps were selected that use open data to address environmental and social issues like air quality, vegetation monitoring, invasive species tracking, and natural hazard alerts. The project seeks to raise awareness of the GEOSS open data portal and engage more user groups in GEOSS through these types of challenges. Lessons learned will help improve data findability and labeling to better support policy and research goals.
The document discusses the WeCare Solar Suitcase project, which aims to provide reliable electricity to rural health clinics through a portable solar energy system. It describes the project's open hardware competition that invited engineering teams to improve the design of the Solar Suitcase to reduce costs and expand access. The competition aims to leverage crowd-sourcing and an open source model to develop shared solutions for providing off-grid energy access to improve maternal health outcomes in developing areas.
Extreme Citizen Science - Public Participation in Scientific Research 2012Muki Haklay
Citizen science involves non-professional scientists volunteering to participate in scientific research projects, including data collection, analysis, and dissemination. The document discusses Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS), which aims to allow any community, regardless of literacy, to conduct bottom-up citizen science by collecting and analyzing data to address local issues. Examples are provided of ExCiteS projects involving air quality monitoring, community mapping, and enabling indigenous communities to report issues like poaching. Challenges addressed include ensuring data quality with low literacy, addressing cultural and ethical issues, and facilitating mutual learning between researchers and communities.
This document discusses policy informatics at a societal scale for massively interactive socially-coupled systems. It argues that policy modeling must be responsive to evidence-based policymaking and end simplistic prediction models. With embedded computing and social networks, individual reasoning is socially influenced. It proposes using synthetic data and simulations of interacting individuals and infrastructure to model these complex systems, while preserving privacy. This would involve generating synthetic populations and networks that represent regional interactions and integrate with built systems.
Location aware apps: patterns and solutions - Ben Butchart - Jisc Digital Fes...Jisc
This document discusses location-aware app design patterns and solutions. It describes several common patterns for location-aware apps, including pins on maps, points of interest near me, geofence notification, geofence soundscape, data capture/geo-tagging, scavenger hunt, activity detection, and more. Each pattern is defined and examples are provided. Considerations for power management, constraints, and related patterns are also discussed for each one. The document aims to provide guidance on building effective and efficient location-aware applications.
Acting as Advocate? Seven steps for libraries in the data decadeLizLyon
UKOLN advocates that libraries take seven steps to support data management and open science in the data decade:
1) Provide briefings on cloud data services in partnership with IT services.
2) Build usable data management tools in partnership with researchers.
3) Develop data sustainability strategies and articulate the costs and benefits.
4) Publish case studies on open science to show benefits of universal data sharing.
5) Present at university ethics committees to highlight open data issues.
6) Raise awareness of citizen science opportunities and guidelines for good practice.
7) Promote data citation and attribution to embed in publication practice.
Kevin T. Vayko has career interests in wastewater/water treatment, water quality management, atmospheric science, and meteorology. He has hobbies related to severe weather, astronomy, sports, music, art, and sustainability. His personal mission is to inspire excellent teamwork and make sharp observations. He has a B.S. in environmental engineering from Michigan Technological University with a minor in French. On campus, he is involved with the Green Campus Enterprise, Society for Environmental Engineering, and tennis. Through the Green Campus Enterprise, his current project involves studying the feasibility of occupancy sensors by gathering lighting and occupancy data to determine cost savings.
Infrastructure for Supporting Computational Social ScienceDerek Hansen
This document discusses the need for infrastructure research to support computational social science. It notes current limitations with relying solely on corporate or third-party tools for data access and analysis. Specifically, these tools are not designed for research needs, duplication of effort is required, APIs are limited and changing, and maintaining third-party tools is challenging. The document proposes a large-scale collaborative solution involving data handling and processing, human-computer interaction, and legal/social considerations to better enable social science research. Collaboration with groups like CASCI and DSST is suggested.
Green IT refers to using computing resources in an environmentally sustainable way by directly reducing the carbon footprint of an organization's computing operations. Some key issues in Green IT include a lack of transparency in ICT energy costs, material demands of hardware production, and insufficient understanding of ICT lifecycles. Green IT also faces challenges like ICT emissions accounting for an estimated 2-3% of global emissions by 2020, and up to a quarter of PCs being left on 24/7 while servers run idle using 60% of power. Potential solutions involve installing power management software, data center refits, making green IT departments responsible for power bills, and recognizing green IT as a solution rather than a problem.
This document summarizes the contributions of several pioneering women in computer science. It discusses Ada Lovelace as the first computer programmer, Admiral Grace Hopper's work developing programming languages like COBOL, and the six women who programmed the ENIAC computer in 1946. It also mentions Jean Sammet, Roberta Williams, Susan Kare, and several organizations that support women in technology fields. In conclusion, it notes that these pioneers helped pave the way for greater opportunities for women in modern technology careers.
Javier Fiol Vicmar Ordoñes InstrumentacionRuben Pantoja
Un virus informático es un malware que altera el funcionamiento de una computadora sin el permiso del usuario, reemplazando archivos ejecutables con código malicioso. Los macrovirus infectan documentos y hojas de cálculo al abrir archivos contaminados. Los gusanos se copian a sí mismos entre dispositivos para propagarse, a diferencia de los virus que requieren infectar otros archivos, mientras que los troyanos se hacen pasar por programas inofensivos para instalar software malicioso.
This document is an email newsletter from Michael Snowhite of California Educators Financial & Insurance Services providing updates on important topics. It discusses the Fortune 500 list for 2012, with Walmart regaining the top spot. It also discusses how the US is becoming a global oil superpower due to increased production from shale oil and gas extraction techniques, and is projected to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's top oil producer by 2020. Developing countries are also increasing their oil consumption and investments in refining.
Este documento describe una campaña llamada "Apadrina un Niño" que tiene como objetivo recolectar donaciones para familias de bajos recursos con el fin de que sus hijos reciban un regalo en Navidad. La campaña lleva 6 años funcionando y busca apelar a la solidaridad ciudadana para ayudar a niños en situación de pobreza. El documento explica cómo las personas pueden donar juguetes, dulces u otros artículos, así como también indica cómo y dónde hacer llegar las donaciones.
1) The document discusses the author's learning preferences and pathway for a class on using technology to maximize learning potential. The author scored balanced across learning preferences and chose the Learning Sage pathway to learn about a wide range of technologies.
2) The author discusses three technologies - screencasts, multimedia, and games/MMOs - and how they appeal to the author's visual and active learning preferences. The author provides examples of using these technologies outside the class.
3) By investigating different technology options, the author feels they have learned about various technologies that could be useful for their academic career, even if all are not used. The author's lifestyle also improved through a class activity, enhancing their learning.
This presentation summarizes a computer science diploma project for developing an online system called the Preparatory Programme for Excellent Student (PPES) System. Currently, the PPES coordinator manually enters student names, details, subjects and results for each semester to generate transcripts and calculate GPAs, which is an inefficient process. The project aims to design a database and develop an online system with administrator and student interfaces to allow viewing of student results. It will use PHP, HTML, CSS for programming, MySQL for the database, and follow a waterfall development methodology of planning, analysis, design, implementation and maintenance.
Este documento trata sobre el aprendizaje y proporciona información sobre varios temas relacionados como los estilos y estrategias de aprendizaje, los requisitos para el éxito académico, y los factores que afectan el aprendizaje escolar. Explica conceptos clave como qué es el aprendizaje, las necesidades de aprendizaje de los estudiantes, y las estrategias que pueden usar para mejorar su aprendizaje. El objetivo general es brindar una guía sobre el proceso de aprendizaje y cómo los estudiant
Listen to this recording of by IFLA's ENSULIB standing committee, to learn how libraries are working at the forefront of citizen science; the connection between NASA climate change science, citizen science observations, and mosquito-borne disease; how the international GLOBE Mission Mosquito citizen science campaign is providing a common language and approach for meeting the global challenge to ensure good health for all from mosquito-borne diseases; and examples of resources and partnerships that public, academic, and research libraries can leverage.
ECSA, the ECSA principles, and the ECSA Characteristics of Citizen ScienceMargaret Gold
The European Citizen Science Association aims to connect citizens and science through fostering active participation. Its mission is to encourage the growth of citizen science in Europe by mobilizing citizens to contribute to evidence-based sustainable development through citizen science projects. The association supports citizen science projects, interactions between groups and disciplines, and the participation of the general public. It also performs research on citizen science and shares best practices. Some focus areas of the association include projects, data, tools and technology; policy, strategy, governance and partnerships; learning and education; air quality; open science; bio blitzes; and global mosquito alert.
Crowdsourcing gene predictions & estimating population sizesBruno Vieira
Talk presented on the 28 February 2014, at the Queen Mary, University of London for a seminar of the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences.
HTML5 Slides: http://bmpvieira.com/seminar14
Citizen Social Science - Swarm and Nominet TrustSwarm
Citizen Social Science is an exploratory collaboration between Nominet Trust, Swarm and a wider community including citizen scientists, developers, game designers, data analysts, graphic/UX designers, data visualisers and social innovators.
1 Environmental Sustainability Ws Tony Vetterguest17df6
The document discusses how mobile applications can promote environmental sustainability. It describes several examples of applications that use mobile phones to track wildlife, engage citizens in environmental activism and monitoring, and enable participatory urban sensing projects. Some challenges to wider adoption are ensuring privacy, accuracy of data, and preventing misuse of sensor systems. Mobile technologies are a promising tool to address sustainability issues through observation, public engagement, and coordinated action on environmental threats.
The MYGEOSS project aims to stimulate use of open Earth observation data through innovative citizen apps. An initial call received 58 app proposals from SMEs, universities, and individuals across Europe. Ten winning apps were selected that use open data to address environmental and social issues like air quality, vegetation monitoring, invasive species tracking, and natural hazard alerts. The project seeks to raise awareness of the GEOSS open data portal and engage more user groups in GEOSS through these types of challenges. Lessons learned will help improve data findability and labeling to better support policy and research goals.
The document discusses the WeCare Solar Suitcase project, which aims to provide reliable electricity to rural health clinics through a portable solar energy system. It describes the project's open hardware competition that invited engineering teams to improve the design of the Solar Suitcase to reduce costs and expand access. The competition aims to leverage crowd-sourcing and an open source model to develop shared solutions for providing off-grid energy access to improve maternal health outcomes in developing areas.
Extreme Citizen Science - Public Participation in Scientific Research 2012Muki Haklay
Citizen science involves non-professional scientists volunteering to participate in scientific research projects, including data collection, analysis, and dissemination. The document discusses Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS), which aims to allow any community, regardless of literacy, to conduct bottom-up citizen science by collecting and analyzing data to address local issues. Examples are provided of ExCiteS projects involving air quality monitoring, community mapping, and enabling indigenous communities to report issues like poaching. Challenges addressed include ensuring data quality with low literacy, addressing cultural and ethical issues, and facilitating mutual learning between researchers and communities.
This document discusses policy informatics at a societal scale for massively interactive socially-coupled systems. It argues that policy modeling must be responsive to evidence-based policymaking and end simplistic prediction models. With embedded computing and social networks, individual reasoning is socially influenced. It proposes using synthetic data and simulations of interacting individuals and infrastructure to model these complex systems, while preserving privacy. This would involve generating synthetic populations and networks that represent regional interactions and integrate with built systems.
Location aware apps: patterns and solutions - Ben Butchart - Jisc Digital Fes...Jisc
This document discusses location-aware app design patterns and solutions. It describes several common patterns for location-aware apps, including pins on maps, points of interest near me, geofence notification, geofence soundscape, data capture/geo-tagging, scavenger hunt, activity detection, and more. Each pattern is defined and examples are provided. Considerations for power management, constraints, and related patterns are also discussed for each one. The document aims to provide guidance on building effective and efficient location-aware applications.
Acting as Advocate? Seven steps for libraries in the data decadeLizLyon
UKOLN advocates that libraries take seven steps to support data management and open science in the data decade:
1) Provide briefings on cloud data services in partnership with IT services.
2) Build usable data management tools in partnership with researchers.
3) Develop data sustainability strategies and articulate the costs and benefits.
4) Publish case studies on open science to show benefits of universal data sharing.
5) Present at university ethics committees to highlight open data issues.
6) Raise awareness of citizen science opportunities and guidelines for good practice.
7) Promote data citation and attribution to embed in publication practice.
Kevin T. Vayko has career interests in wastewater/water treatment, water quality management, atmospheric science, and meteorology. He has hobbies related to severe weather, astronomy, sports, music, art, and sustainability. His personal mission is to inspire excellent teamwork and make sharp observations. He has a B.S. in environmental engineering from Michigan Technological University with a minor in French. On campus, he is involved with the Green Campus Enterprise, Society for Environmental Engineering, and tennis. Through the Green Campus Enterprise, his current project involves studying the feasibility of occupancy sensors by gathering lighting and occupancy data to determine cost savings.
Infrastructure for Supporting Computational Social ScienceDerek Hansen
This document discusses the need for infrastructure research to support computational social science. It notes current limitations with relying solely on corporate or third-party tools for data access and analysis. Specifically, these tools are not designed for research needs, duplication of effort is required, APIs are limited and changing, and maintaining third-party tools is challenging. The document proposes a large-scale collaborative solution involving data handling and processing, human-computer interaction, and legal/social considerations to better enable social science research. Collaboration with groups like CASCI and DSST is suggested.
Green IT refers to using computing resources in an environmentally sustainable way by directly reducing the carbon footprint of an organization's computing operations. Some key issues in Green IT include a lack of transparency in ICT energy costs, material demands of hardware production, and insufficient understanding of ICT lifecycles. Green IT also faces challenges like ICT emissions accounting for an estimated 2-3% of global emissions by 2020, and up to a quarter of PCs being left on 24/7 while servers run idle using 60% of power. Potential solutions involve installing power management software, data center refits, making green IT departments responsible for power bills, and recognizing green IT as a solution rather than a problem.
This document summarizes the contributions of several pioneering women in computer science. It discusses Ada Lovelace as the first computer programmer, Admiral Grace Hopper's work developing programming languages like COBOL, and the six women who programmed the ENIAC computer in 1946. It also mentions Jean Sammet, Roberta Williams, Susan Kare, and several organizations that support women in technology fields. In conclusion, it notes that these pioneers helped pave the way for greater opportunities for women in modern technology careers.
Javier Fiol Vicmar Ordoñes InstrumentacionRuben Pantoja
Un virus informático es un malware que altera el funcionamiento de una computadora sin el permiso del usuario, reemplazando archivos ejecutables con código malicioso. Los macrovirus infectan documentos y hojas de cálculo al abrir archivos contaminados. Los gusanos se copian a sí mismos entre dispositivos para propagarse, a diferencia de los virus que requieren infectar otros archivos, mientras que los troyanos se hacen pasar por programas inofensivos para instalar software malicioso.
This document is an email newsletter from Michael Snowhite of California Educators Financial & Insurance Services providing updates on important topics. It discusses the Fortune 500 list for 2012, with Walmart regaining the top spot. It also discusses how the US is becoming a global oil superpower due to increased production from shale oil and gas extraction techniques, and is projected to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's top oil producer by 2020. Developing countries are also increasing their oil consumption and investments in refining.
Este documento describe una campaña llamada "Apadrina un Niño" que tiene como objetivo recolectar donaciones para familias de bajos recursos con el fin de que sus hijos reciban un regalo en Navidad. La campaña lleva 6 años funcionando y busca apelar a la solidaridad ciudadana para ayudar a niños en situación de pobreza. El documento explica cómo las personas pueden donar juguetes, dulces u otros artículos, así como también indica cómo y dónde hacer llegar las donaciones.
1) The document discusses the author's learning preferences and pathway for a class on using technology to maximize learning potential. The author scored balanced across learning preferences and chose the Learning Sage pathway to learn about a wide range of technologies.
2) The author discusses three technologies - screencasts, multimedia, and games/MMOs - and how they appeal to the author's visual and active learning preferences. The author provides examples of using these technologies outside the class.
3) By investigating different technology options, the author feels they have learned about various technologies that could be useful for their academic career, even if all are not used. The author's lifestyle also improved through a class activity, enhancing their learning.
This presentation summarizes a computer science diploma project for developing an online system called the Preparatory Programme for Excellent Student (PPES) System. Currently, the PPES coordinator manually enters student names, details, subjects and results for each semester to generate transcripts and calculate GPAs, which is an inefficient process. The project aims to design a database and develop an online system with administrator and student interfaces to allow viewing of student results. It will use PHP, HTML, CSS for programming, MySQL for the database, and follow a waterfall development methodology of planning, analysis, design, implementation and maintenance.
Este documento trata sobre el aprendizaje y proporciona información sobre varios temas relacionados como los estilos y estrategias de aprendizaje, los requisitos para el éxito académico, y los factores que afectan el aprendizaje escolar. Explica conceptos clave como qué es el aprendizaje, las necesidades de aprendizaje de los estudiantes, y las estrategias que pueden usar para mejorar su aprendizaje. El objetivo general es brindar una guía sobre el proceso de aprendizaje y cómo los estudiant
Listen to this recording of by IFLA's ENSULIB standing committee, to learn how libraries are working at the forefront of citizen science; the connection between NASA climate change science, citizen science observations, and mosquito-borne disease; how the international GLOBE Mission Mosquito citizen science campaign is providing a common language and approach for meeting the global challenge to ensure good health for all from mosquito-borne diseases; and examples of resources and partnerships that public, academic, and research libraries can leverage.
ECSA, the ECSA principles, and the ECSA Characteristics of Citizen ScienceMargaret Gold
The European Citizen Science Association aims to connect citizens and science through fostering active participation. Its mission is to encourage the growth of citizen science in Europe by mobilizing citizens to contribute to evidence-based sustainable development through citizen science projects. The association supports citizen science projects, interactions between groups and disciplines, and the participation of the general public. It also performs research on citizen science and shares best practices. Some focus areas of the association include projects, data, tools and technology; policy, strategy, governance and partnerships; learning and education; air quality; open science; bio blitzes; and global mosquito alert.
The ECSA Characteristics of Citizen ScienceMargaret Gold
An overview of the work and outcomes on the ECSA Characteristics of Citizen Science - full notes on https://zenodo.org/communities/citscicharacteristics
This is my presentation from the ISDE7 / WALIS / NRM Conference held in Perth. It focuses on my personal experiences with citizen science and the environment over the last couple of years.
This document discusses citizen science and its application in classroom settings. It begins by defining citizen science as involving non-scientists in scientific research projects to generate new knowledge. It then discusses benefits of engaging students in citizen science, such as increasing engagement and connecting science learning to real-world issues. Several examples of citizen science projects are provided that students could participate in. The document emphasizes the importance of collaborating with external partners and communities. It provides guidance on co-managing citizen science projects with communities.
Slides from Susanne Hecker and Muki Haklay talk in an ECSA webinar about the ECSA Characteristics of Citizen science https://zenodo.org/communities/citscicharacteristics/ - covering the methodology and the main features of the document. The webinar is available here https://zenodo.org/record/3859970
The State of Open Data Report by @figshare.
A selection of analyses and articles about open data, curated by Figshare
Foreword by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt
OCTOBER 2016
Software Metadata: Describing "dark software" in GeoSciencesdgarijo
This document discusses describing "dark software" or unshared scientific software in geosciences. It proposes using the OntoSoft ontology to capture standardized metadata about scientific software. This would allow software to be more discoverable, reusable and reproducible. The document outlines the types of metadata captured by OntoSoft and demonstrates how it can be used to describe software and facilitate search and comparison of different tools.
The power of cs in education moraitopoulou elina republica 2017Elina MORAITOPOULOU
Rapidly advancing scientific research is among the main transforming actors of our societies today. Citizen Science can promote public awareness, encourage meaningful contribution to research projects and empower local and global communities. How can we rethink school education through the prism of Citizen Science? And how can we start from schools to re-establish the links between scientific research and society, while promoting awareness and collaboration?
link to oral presentation >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN2Y-o3uM-c&t=264s
Citizen science involves members of the public in scientific research projects to support data collection and analysis. It has a long history but new technologies now allow wider participation. Examples include tracking bird populations and urban tree phenology. Ensuring high quality, trusted data is important. Projects provide training and guidelines for volunteers. Citizen science data can contribute to research in fields like ecology, climate change and public health. It is a valuable approach when professional researchers cannot cover all locations or needs.
This presentation was given at the EPA’s National Water Event 2019, which took place on 29 and 30 May 2019 in Galway. This presentation by Mary Kelly from UCD is on the concept and principles of citizen science.
An overview of how fundamental and use-inspired research and innovation are related. A presentation I made at the American Control Conference workshop on this topic.
This document discusses the opportunities of open data sharing in the big data era, including quicker responses to problems, more collaboration, and harnessing crowd-sourced efforts. It provides examples of open data enabling scientific progress, such as genome analysis that helped control an E. coli outbreak. Open data can provide credit to data sharers and incentivize open science. The document advocates for removing barriers to open data like paywalls and silos through initiatives like GigaDB and GigaScience that integrate publishing and data platforms to maximize data utility.
This document summarizes the agenda and discussions from the Genetic Engineering & Society Center's Internal Advisory Committee Meeting on August 30, 2017. The meeting included student presentations on various graduate research projects, as well as highlights from staff members and faculty. Staff highlights included an open philanthropy grant to promote biosafety practices in DIY biology labs and thoughts on redesigning the Center's communications materials. Faculty highlights included public engagement efforts for projects on synthetic biology and gene drives funded by DARPA and NSF/USDA. The discussion section focused on planning a future art and science exhibit.
Democratising biodiversity and genomics research: open and citizen science to...GigaScience, BGI Hong Kong
Scott Edmunds at the China National GeneBank Youth Biodiversity MegaData Forum: Democratising biodiversity and genomics research: open and citizen science to build trust and fill the data gaps. 18th December 2018
4º National Plan for Open Government - Mechanisms of Scientific Data Governan...ATMOSPHERE .
Alex Moura, Brazilian National Research and Educational Network (RNP) and Research Data Alliance (RDA) in Brazil - "4º National Plan for Open Government - Mechanisms of Scientific Data Governance to develop Open Science in Brazil"
8. Vision Every student (citizen) participates in scientific data collection related to their community Data is shared with scientists for analysis Open API allows others to build smarter apps, get better data
12. Outcomes 〈 Students enjoy the WildLab program. 〈 Students notice more/observe more than usual when outdoors. 〈 Students find the WildLab helpful, easy, and fun. 〈 Content knowledge increases. 〈 Interest in science careers increases. All teachers said they would participate again, because it: 〈 gives students exposure to the outdoors 〈 provides experiences with research & technology 〈 is easy to use 〈 offers experience with real data collection
14. Ask the world: hear an answer Method: Identify problem in community Follow scientific protocol & work with scientists Use local tech (front-end) --> connect to global problems (back-end) Design app that gets better with use Scientists, governments, public work together Create empowered citizen, future leaders
15. Ways to connect to issues, new entry points into science Courage not to be passive, but be citizens and in some cases, leaders. Face future environmental challenges
We created the WildLab to unlock the potential of location-based learning. (Think foursquare for nature.) The WildLab uses mobile technology to engage learners in citizen science activities that promote STEM learning and encourage local environmental stewardship. We are looking to: work on location-based mobile apps that take advantage of situated, ubiquitous learning (whether it be for science or other subject areas). We want to bridge formal school texts with informal learning activities happening outside of school that connect learners with their surroundings, and bring from prototype to finished product plug-in phone sensors for environmental data that could lead to a whole new lines of inquiry-based learning activities; build an API upon which others can build apps; and offer paid pro services on top of API.
How it works Birds: In 2009-2010, with support from the MacArthur Foundation, over 500 NYC students in 5th-12th grade collected thousands of bird sightings using the WildLab iPhone app. Students sent their sightings, tagged with GPS coordinates and other data, to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at the end of the program. Why birds? Birding is one of the largest recreational activities in America according to the U.S. Fish and WildLife service (~50 million people engage in some form of birdwatching). Also, there is a long (100+ years), rich data set for birds. Anyone can currently use what we built for free--the Web site and phone app. We have over 1,000 users of the bird application now; the market consists of millions of learners.
Vision: Every student in the country will participate in real scientific efforts over the course of their education (K-20). Learn new patterns of behavior required for future role of citizen. Envision sky, earth, and everything in between as the new classroom. Every museum, every scientific paper will have a citizen science component. We also develop the API around which others build apps and curricula. Fits IBMs corporate responsibility priorities in 1.) identifying social/environmental problems in communities worldwide, and 2.) developing and maintaining STEM skills. We connect local to global. IBM could use expertise to develop citizen science API and do back-end number crunching and statistical analysis of data; bring apps into the realm of what cities do.
Our curricula are inquiry-based . On the first day of fieldwork, we make observations, not just of birds, but of the general habitat. Why would a bird like to perch in that tree, or where would a bird go to find food? In what ways are the habitat and birds connected? The app and data sets can address specific hypotheses, and also lead to further on-going inquiry and study. While the application and curriculum deliver a specific known outcome that is relevant to the school or teacher's goals and a specific project, it also inspires learning on a broader level. Inquiry breeds more inquiry. Most students knew a few bird names but had no idea how to identify them. Most have been to the park but never really made careful observations of the nature around them. Once they started looking, they saw nests, berries on trees, insects, and birds themselves. They wanted to share their discoveries with their friends too. They wanted to make a difference : knowing that their data was going to be used in research made a huge impact.
The phones are media-enabled field computers--they give learners superpowers . The app, based on the user’s current location, filters out species that don’t occur there; it also shows what species were recently seen nearby (using Cornell’s eBird API). Students and educators helped us shape the bird app, which takes learners through the process-of-elimination a scientist goes through to make a correct I.D. Users select habitat, then shape (bigger than a warbler, smaller than a finch--round body, long neck like a pigeon). Clicking on a species leads to a larger picture, a range map, and the big favorite--being able to play the birdsongs. To enter a sighting into the database and map, users scroll the number, add notes if desired, and submit their sighting. Future goals include ordering by probability, color, and working with Cornell on their API. Quizzes, more feedback to user.
Students and learners can also share their sightings via Facebook/Twitter. If a friend clicks on the sighting in Facebook, it leads to more information on the species. The classrooms had no access to social media, or Youtube. We also created publish-then-filter methods by tweeting sightings in real-time on wildlab data--it is an interesting platform for this sort of data, though not necessarily deep enough for scientists. Other avenues to explore are game-like point systems and virtual currencies to incentivize data collection.
The WildLab supports key steps of the scientific process (like observation, mapping/analyzing data and coming up with a hypothesis). In informal education, volunteers at NYC Audubon use the WildLab for Project Safe Flight and other conservation/data collection initiatives. Informal public bird walks at Prospect Park Audubon Center use the WildLab to collect their bird data too.
Other apps: 3D species is a prototype of a field guide from the future, where details of objects under study can be seen and manipulated, i.e., seeing patterns of feathers up close. Horseshoe crab app (one-species protocol app) with the Cornell Cooperative extension (reaches hundreds of thousands of learners already participating in informal science ed programs) Herpetology app collaboration (with California State University and Gateway Science Museum) Weather app--crowd sourcing weather via sensor and reports; also crowd source CO2 and other gases Other location-based apps include history apps about neighborhood--tie it in to textbooks, nearby educational resources, activities outside of school that are shared in school.
How are we (and the people who are just now learning about climate change) going to deal with the future climate problems? How do we get away from participation through consumption, buying green products vs. being participants in our own communities. How will they connect to those problems, and what role are they going to play? There are 1 billion teenagers right now on the planet. There were one billion people on the planet in 1830. How do we participate: rollerskate to work? Wear sweaters when it is cold and recycle? Innovation and adaptation in massive collective ways to face environmental challenges. It was clear in our program that the technology wasn’t a barrier, but rather a tool. Brunelleschi, the great Renaissance architect and sculptor figured out how to span the great octagon that forms the base of the Duomo by inventing new tools. Rather than consume, what are we going to teach youth about these tools, and how does that form the knowledge they internalize as they go through life? Facts matter...data matters...critical interpretation of information to sift/synthesize discussion to form a vision. In schools, need to get out of the box--environment, health, well-being...what are the data? What are the diversity of opinions? What are the probabilities? How can we inspire young people to dedicate themselves to enrich the future...the citizen has to feel she or he has some ownership of the decision, which means they have to understand it. Not imposed upon. The citizen has to be participant. People in public office have to be able to discern between two competing theories--there are rules to this game.
Thanks. Amargosa toad from Nevada--how citizens can save a species http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131194364&sc=17&f=1001 Last night’s email: I work with a citizen science effort along the Rio Grande. For the past 13 years we have involved K-12 and university students in an effort to monitor key abiotic and biotic variables along the Rio Grande and its riverside forest, the bosque. Our program now has 25 permanent monitoring sites spread out across New Mexico. I am interested in learning how we might use your services to expand the scope of our program. Thanks, Daniel Shaw Co-Director, Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP) Faculty, Bosque School 4000 Learning Road NW Albuquerque, NM 87120 (505) 898-6388 voice (505) 922-0392 fax