IN21A:
The Priceless Science of Citizen Science: Questions, Q-Values, and QA/QC Posters

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Session ID#: 12794

Session Description:
Citizen science data in Earth and Space Science is priceless, providing both invaluable information and effort beyond the means of the largest research budget. People with smartphone accelerometers capture earthquakes for USGS, while online astronomy enthusiasts count craters. Insights into the changing Earth system also come from biology. Outdoor explorers record phenological data at more sites than could ever be reached by university or government staffers. Projects like the century-old Audubon Christmas Bird Count allow citizen ornithologists to go from spotting birds to contributing invaluable data. This single project - one of over 1500 in the SciStarter database - has accumulated 25 million volunteer hours. Now Big Data approaches convert those records into transformational results on bird migration and climate. This session invites leading academic/agency researchers working in a wide range of disciplines to describe results from citizen science, and address questions of QA/QC and implications for professional researchers.
Primary Convener:  Pamela Gay, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Edwardsville, IL, United States
Convener:  Theresa G Schwerin, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, VA, United States
Chairs:  Pamela Gay, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Edwardsville, IL, United States and Theresa G Schwerin, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Pamela Gay, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Edwardsville, IL, United States
Co-Organized with:
Earth and Space Science Informatics, and Earth and Planetary Surface Processes

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • H - Hydrology

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Index Terms:

1908 Cyberinfrastructure [INFORMATICS]
5419 Hydrology and fluvial processes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5420 Impact phenomena, cratering [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5475 Tectonics [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Past, Present and Future of the Meteorological Phenomena Identification Near the Ground (mPING) Project (117860)
Kimberly L Elmore, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
NASA's Science Mission Directorate and the larger Federal Government Citizen Science Effort (148555)
Michelle Thaller, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., DC, United States
GLOBE Goes GO with Mosquitoes (151607)
Rebecca A Boger, CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, United States and Russanne Low, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, United States
Science in the Wild: Adventure Citizen Science in the Arctic and Himalaya (174591)
Ulyana N Horodyskyj, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Climate Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Jorge Rufat-Latre, Boundless Focus LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, Jason D Reimuller, GATS, Inc., San Francisco, CA, United States, Patrick Rowe, Midwest ROV LLC, Concord, WI, United States, Benjamin Pothier, Planetary Collegium, Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts, Paris, France and Amrit Thapa, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
Lessons from COASST: How Does Citizen Science Contribute to Natural Resource Management & Decision-Making? (183593)
Jennifer Metes1, Heidi L Ballard1 and Julia Parrish2, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, United States
CosmoQuest:Using Data Validation for More Than Just Data Validation (193679)
Cory Lehan, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, United States and Pamela Gay, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Edwardsville, IL, United States
Turning K-12 Science Education Inside Out, Knocking Down Walls and Empowering the Disenchanted.  (194208)
Albert Yu-Min Lin, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
A Citizen Science Soil Moisture Sensor to Support SMAP Calibration/Validation (Invited) (195934)
Erika Podest, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Narendra N Das, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States

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