ED53B:
Era of Citizen Science and Big Data: Intersection of Outreach, Crowd-Sourced Data, and Scientific Research II Posters


Session ID#: 10492

Session Description:
The traditional method of outreach to formal, informal, science and non-science audiences has undergone a fundamental change with recent advances in technology, social media and crowd-sourced data, giving way to citizen science with many applications. With increasing “Big Data” projects, active partnerships between professional, amateur and data scientist communities are necessary. Innovative design, sustainability and evaluation of these projects is as important as the citizen science they generate.   This session invites papers from scientists, educators and as well as those who design, facilitate, evaluate or fund such programs. Topics may include methodology, applications of citizen science to enhancing outreach, transformative approaches to science education, lessons learned, and the future of citizen science.  Presentations are invited from all scientific disciplines: astronomy, planetary and space science, geology and geophysics, seismology, biogeoscience, atmosphere and ocean sciences.
Primary Convener:  Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher, Space Science Institute Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States
Convener:  Constance E Walker, NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher, Space Science Institute Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States and Elizabeth S Cochran, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Rachel Freed, InStAR, Sonoma, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

0820 Curriculum and laboratory design [EDUCATION]
0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The network of Subterranean Electric Observations: Exploiting Crowd-Sourced Low-Cost Multielectrode System Improving Views of Tectonic Hazards on a Global Scale (82255)
Vadim Bobrovskiy, Distant School Cosmic-Meteo-Tectonics, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, Russia
The Auroral Zone: A citizen science project to classify auroral imaging data (84928)
Darren Chaddock1, Emma Spanswick1, D. Megan Gillies2, Annie Quinney3, Eric Donovan1 and Maribeth S Murray1, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada, (3)Arctic Institute of North America, calgary, AB, Canada
Crowd-Sourcing Seismic Data: Lessons Learned from the Quake-Catcher Network (70343)
Elizabeth S Cochran, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, CA, United States, Danielle F Sumy, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology - IRIS, Washington, United States, Robert M DeGroot, United States Geological Survey - Earthquake Science Center, ShakeAlert Project, Pasadena, CA, United States and Robert W Clayton, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Using Citizen Science to Close Gaps in Cabled Ocean Observatory Research (85011)
Kate Moran1, David J. Riddell2, Maia Hoeberechts3, Ryan Flagg1, Jodie Walsh2, Michael G Morley1, Rod Dobell2 and Justin Longo4, (1)Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)Ocean Networks Canada, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (4)University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada
Citizen Monitoring during Hazards: The Case of Fukushima Radiation after the 2011 Japanese Earthquake (80869)
Carolynne Hultquist, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University, Palisades, United States and Guido Cervone, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geography and Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, University Park, PA, United States
The NorWeST project: Crowd-sourcing a big data stream temperature database and high-resolution climate scenarios for western rivers and streams (59227)
Dan Isaak, US Forest Service Boise, Boise, ID, United States, Seth Wenger, University of Georgia, River Basin Center - Odum School of Ecology, Athens, GA, United States, Erin Peterson, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, Jay Ver Hoef, National Marine Mammal Lab, Seattle, WA, United States, Charles H Luce, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID, United States and Steve Hostetler, USGS, Corvallis, OR, United States
Advancing the Potential of Citizen Science for Urban Water Quality Monitoring: Exploring Research Design and Methodology in New York City (79641)
Diana Hsueh, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, David J Farnham, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States, Rebecca Gibson, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Wade R McGillis, Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States, Patricia Jane Culligan, Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, NY, United States, Caren Cooper, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States, Lincoln Larson, North Carolina State University, College of Natural Resources, Raleigh, United States, Brian Justin Mailloux, Barnard College, Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States, Robert Buchanan, Eugene Lang College, The New School, Public Engagement, New York, NY, United States, Nancy Borus, New York City Water Trail Association, New York, NY, United States, Nina Zain, The River Project, New York, NY, United States, Diana Eddowes, Earthwatch Institute, Boston, MA, United States, Lizzette Butkiewicz, HSBC, New York, NY, United States and Steven A. Loiselle, University of Siena, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, Siena, Italy

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