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Archive for the 'Conferences and Events' Category

Class on Starting and Sustaining Watershed Groups

Here’s a fantastic class that happening in the San Francisco Bay Area that you’ll want to attend if you’re interested in ecological monitoring:
Basins of Relations: Starting and Sustaining Watershed Groups. It’s being taught by Brock Dolman, a fantastic instructor who will keep you entertained, engaged, enlightened and inspired:
This four-day intensive residential training is [...]

Event Tomorrow: Technebiotics

This event looks like it might have lots of things of interest to people working on citizen science projects:
Part science fair, part county fair, this interactive afternoon event will feature multiple live demonstrations and do-it-yourself workshops on a wide range of biological techniques and processes. Artists, scientists and educators will demonstrate how to spool [...]

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 [...]

Reflections on the Citizen Science Conference

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. [...]

Notes from Working Groups at the Citizen Science Toolkit Conference

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 [...]

Citizen Science Toolkit Conference

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 [...]