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Archive for August, 2007

Conference Session Announcement: Citizen Science in the Geosciences

This announcement was sent by Sandra Henderson of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. AGU is the American Geophysical Union; the meeting is in San Francisco on December 10-14.
Hello Colleagues,
I’d like to take this opportunity to inform you of a special session at the AGU Fall Meeting on Citizen Science in the Geosciences. Please [...]

All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) for Great Smoky Mountains National Park is an attempt to catalog all of the species found within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Scientists and volunteers are collaborating and expect to find over 100,000 species, and have even discovered hundreds of species new to science (mostly insects and [...]

The Unintended Consequences of Citizen Science

I’m interested in gathering stories about the unintended consequences of citizen science…stories that show why participating in these projects has value beyond the data.
I touched on some of this in the poster I did for the recent citizen science conference. What kind of unintended consequences could I be talking about? Try:

Curing depression
Teaching critical [...]