Citizen science for policy development: The case of koala management in South Australia. Environ. Sci. Policy 47, 126-136.Hollow, B., Roetman, P. E. J., Walter, M., & Daniels, C. B. (2015). Citizen science for policy development: The case of koala management in South...
Citizen science is an increasingly acknowledged approach applied in many scientific domains, and particularly within the environmental and ecological sciences, in which non-professional participants contribute to data collection to advance scientific research. We present contributory citizen science as a valuab...
Traditional data sources are not sufficient for measuring the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. New and non-traditional sources of data are required. Citizen science is an emerging example of a non-traditional data source that is already maki
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Citizen science Marine debris Marine litter Plastic pollution Marine litter is widespread and has made it even to Earth's remotest environments such as the deep ocean floor and the Polar Regions (Bergmann et al., 2017). Still, there is a peculiar, several orders of magnitude mismatch between ...
Penn will lead the maiden voyage leg from the U.K. to the Azores, which sets sail on Oct. 8, 2019. "We are partnering with theUniversity of Plymouthto develop a science program that will give us a clearer picture of the impact of plastics and toxics around the world," she says...
Along with scientists from Australia's national science agency, theCSIRO, and theInstitute for Marine and Antarctic Studies(IMAS) at UTAS, divers will now closely monitor the species and search for undiscovered populations. To keep volunteers engaged, Reef Life Survey conducts regular surveying weekend...
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known," wrote Carl Sagan. And now you can be the one to find it, thanks to Zooniverse, a uniquecitizen sciencewebsite. Zooniverse volunteers, who call themselves "Zooites," are working on a project calledGalaxy Zoo, classifying distant galaxie...
"We know that citizen science projects place huge value on volunteers because the combined 'wisdom of crowds' achieves so much. For example, Galaxy Zoo, which asks volunteers to analyse galaxies and the data helps astrophysicists develop a better understanding of the evolution of the universe. Th...
The work presented here, describes a citizen science scoping study using accessible stand-alone smartphone technology. Paper discolouration in a single journal type, the Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser published from the dates 1876–2004 was chosen as the f