ED24B:
New Approaches to Citizen Science: Intersection of Outreach, Crowd-Sourced Data, and Scientific Research Il

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Session ID#: 35398

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, including the recent Total Solar Eclipse 2017, ground-based pro-am observer synergies for missions (e.g., ESA/Rosetta, NASA/Juno), and self-organized citizen campaigns. 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 applications of citizen science to enhancing outreach, transformative approaches to science education, and the future of citizen science. Presentations are invited from all scientific disciplines: astronomy, planetary and space science, geology,
geophysics, seismology, biogeoscience, atmosphere and ocean sciences.
Primary Convener:  Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher, Space Science Institute Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States
Conveners:  Rachel Freed, InStAR, Sonoma, CA, United States and Constance E Walker, NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Constance E Walker, NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, United States and Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher, Space Science Institute Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Constance E Walker, NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, United States

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

0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
7509 Corona [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7594 Instruments and techniques [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Fireballs in the Sky: an Augmented Reality Citizen Science Program (233684)
Brian Hamilton Day, NASA Ames Research Center, Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Phil Bland, Space and Technology Centre, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia and Renae Sayers, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
Detection and Characterisation of Meteors as a Big Data Citizen Science project (Invited) (262946)
Maria Gritsevich, Science and Society Synergy Institute, Cakovec, Ukraine; Hipersfera d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia
Citizen seismology in Taiwan: what went wrong and what is the future? (219098)
Kate Huihsuan Chen, Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, Wen-Tzong Liang, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan and Yu-Feng Wu, Graduate Institute of Science Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Slow Earthquake Hunters: A New Citizen Science Project to Identify and Catalog Slow Slip Events in Geodetic Data (276908)
Noel M Jackson, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States
Why Citizen Science Without Usability Testing Will Underperform (284413)
Cia Romano1, Pamela Gay2, Ryan Owens2 and Grigori Burlea3, (1)Interface Guru, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Edwardsville, IL, United States, (3)Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Edwardsville, IL, United States
CrowdWater - Can people observe what models need? (247894)
Jan Seibert1, Ilja H.J. van Meerveld1, Marc Vis2, Simon Etter1 and Barbara Strobl1, (1)University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
New Dimensions of The PACA (Pro-Am Collaborative Astronomy) Project (284132)
Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher, Space Science Institute, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States

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