Reflections on the Citizen Science Conference
I really enjoyed the conference. I got the chance to meet some really wonderful people and learned that there are countless cases of citizen science happening, on a number of different fronts. It was a jam-packed three days, and yet there was tremendous energy in the closing session. [...]
The mornings and afternoons at the conference were mostly structured like this: A half-hour opening talk, followed by three or four 15-minute focus talks, and then a 90-minute breakout discussion session in our working groups. In the working groups, we’d discuss questions that were designed to lead us towards the goal of establishing what [...]
Attending the Citizen Science Toolkit Conference was an amazing experience. It was a lot of fun to be with such a smart, energetic group of people for three and a half days at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. There are amazing projects and people doing amazing things out there! Thanks to the [...]
While at the conference, it’s become clear that a directory of cool web tools might be helpful. Here’s a number of free and low-cost tools available online that can be helpful for citizen science groups, especially for building community. Please add your own suggestions to the comments!
Docs and Photos
Flickr – THE photo sharing service; [...]
I’m here in Ithaca to attend the Citizen Science Toolkit Conference hosted by the venerable Cornell Lab of Ornithology. In just a couple of hours, I’ll be heading over to the lab and getting a chance to visit Sapsucker Woods for the first time. I’m really excited!
As part of the conference, I’m presenting [...]
I’m happy to announce a new social network for citizen scientists using Crowd Vine, social networking software created by my friend, Tony Stubblebine.
It’s my hope that the social network will be a tool for people to get visability as a community of citizen science enthusiasts, regardless of the projects they participate in.
To join the community, [...]
I’ve been working on some community features for the CitizenSci.com web site, and here’s the first one: the Citizen Science Projects Flickr pool! Add your photos to the pool so we can check out your projects or see you and your fellow citizen scientists in action. We’ll be adding a feature to this [...]
Unusual numbers of Horned Puffins, usually found nesting in the arctic during this time of year, are being noticed along the California Coast.
The folks at eBird have put out a call for a special count of Horned Puffins for tomorrow, Saturday June 9:
Calbirders
Well it looks like we’ve got roughly 50 people heading out [...]
