PA23E:
Robust Science Results from Citizen Science Projects Across the Disciplines

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Session ID#: 23654

Session Description:
Citizen science has gained recognition due to new technologies, the open innovation movement, and federal sponsorship. Recent citizen science programs are often broad in scope and interdisciplinary in nature. They can be disruptive and go well beyond traditional outreach and education. These varied programs can have common elements, e.g. image analysis, crowd-sourced signals from social media, and geospatial visualization. Citizen science data can elucidate scientific problems at scales not otherwise tractable. Data have repeatedly been shown in multiple fields to be high quality and useful. This session focuses specifically on scientific results from these participatory programs, including published research and operational applications. Such results are naturally discipline specific; however, this session will provide an interdisciplinary forum for these results to be shared and discussed broadly to elucidate the scientific potential of the emerging field of citizen science across different fields.
Primary Convener:  Lin H Chambers, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Nathaniel A Frissell, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research - Physics, Newark, United States, Nathan Case, Lancaster University, Department of Physics, Lancaster, United Kingdom and Amy P. Kaminski, NASA, Office of the Chief Scientist, Washington, DC, DC, United States
Chairs:  Lin H Chambers, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Nathan Case, New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lin H Chambers, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Index Terms:

9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Massive Mortality of a Planktivorous Seabird in Response to a Marine Heatwave: A Citizen Science Case-study (295253)
Timothy Jones, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Julia Parrish, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Parker MacCready, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States, William T Peterson, NMFS, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Newport, OR, United States, Eric Bjorkstedt, NOAA Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center and Department of Fisheries Biology, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, United States, Nicholas A Bond, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle, WA, United States, Lisa T Ballance, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA, United States, Victoria Bowes, Animal Health Centre, Ministry of Agriculture, Abbotsford, BC, Canada, J. Mark Hipfner, Wildlife Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Delta, BC, Canada, Kirsten Lindquist, Greater Farallones Association, San Francisco, CA, United States, Jacqueline Lindsey, California State University, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Hannahrose M Nevins, American Bird Conservancy, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Hillary K Burgess, University of Washington, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Roxanne Robertson, Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystems and Climate (CIMEC), California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcata, United States, Jan Roletto, Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, San Francisco, United States, Laurie Wilson, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Delta, BC, Canada, Trevor William Joyce, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and James Harvey, California State University, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, United States
Model My Watershed - A Robust Online App to Enable Citizen Scientists to Model Watershed Hydrology and Water Quality at Regulatory-Level Standards (296420)
Melinda Daniels1, Steve Kerlin2 and David Arscott2, (1)Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale, United States, (2)Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale, PA, United States
Citizen Science into Action – Robust Data with Affordable Technologies for Flood Risks Management in the Himalayas (270974)
Bhopal Pandeya1, Madhab Uprety2, Jonathan David Paul3, Sumit Dugar2 and Wouter Buytaert4, (1)Imperial College London, Centre for Environmental Policy and Grantham Institute for Climate Change, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)Practical Action Consulting South Asia, Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (4)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Mitigating Mosquito Disease Vectors with Citizen Science: a Review of the GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper Pilot and Implications for Wide-scale Implementation (292689)
Holli Riebeek Kohl, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Russanne Low, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, United States, Rebecca A Boger, CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, United States, Theresa G Schwerin, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, VA, United States, Dorian Wood Janney, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and GLOBE Team

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