Citizen Science
Citizen science (also known as crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, volunteer monitoring or networked science) is scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur or nonprofessional scientists.
‘Citizen’-based contributions to mainstream scientific investigations are becoming increasingly important. Technology is helping to facilitate this by enabling projects to be more accessible to the public, providing greater effectiveness of communications between scientific practitioners and citizen scientists, and providing accessible data collection and management tools which improve the flow and quality of data.
‘Citizen’-based contributions to mainstream scientific investigations are becoming increasingly important. Technology is helping to facilitate this by enabling projects to be more accessible to the public, providing greater effectiveness of communications between scientific practitioners and citizen scientists, and providing accessible data collection and management tools which improve the flow and quality of data.
ACTIVITY 1
So to the Australian Living Atlas site - do a desktop survey of same area you did for Biodiversity Interactive Mapper. If you are having trouble getting site to do what you want see the link below for How to Guides http://www.ala.org.au/education-resources/teachers-guides/ ACTIVITY 3 Join Bowerbird and then join group CLM Students MP. Upload photos of plants and animals you know or would like to be identified for you. RECORD A SIGHTING - use Atlas of Living Australia to record bird survey data |
ACTIVITY 2
Review the following Citizen Science Sites, choose one to look at in detail - report back class - some ideas-what is it about, its goals, what you can do ? |