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The impact of citizen science on society, governance, the economy, the environment and science.
(MICS Project, 2022)The MICS project [mics.tools] has developed a state-of-the-art tool for assessing citizen science’s impact. The free-to-use, open-access platform is available to anyone looking to improve their impact assessment. MICS uses ... -
ECSA's Characteristics of Citizen Science. Version 1.
(European Citizen Science Association, Berlin, Germany, 2020)This document attempts to represent a wide range of opinions in an inclusive way, to allow for different types of projects and programmes, where context-specific criteria can be set.The characteristics outlined below are ... -
From goals to engagement— evaluating citizen science project descriptions as science communication texts.
(2023)Introduction: Attracting and recruiting volunteers is a key aspect of managing a citizen science initiative. Science communication plays a central role in this process. In this context, project descriptions are of ... -
Methods and tools for Citizen Participation and Co-Creation.
(Norwegian Research Centre AS (NORCE), Arendal, Norway, 2020)This document presents a selection of 40 tools or methodologies for citizen involvement in the form of meeting places, participation in planning processes, dialogue through digital tools, knowledge acquisition and new ... -
Assessing data quality in citizen science.
(2016)Ecological and environmental citizen-science projects have enormous potential to advance scientific knowledge, influence policy, and guide resource management by producing datasets that would otherwise be infeasible to ... -
Guidelines for collecting citizen observations on non-indigenous species (NIS).
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2021)Monitoring of non-indigenous species (NIS) is required through several international agreements and guidelines, such as the EU Regulation on Invasive Alien Species (The European Parliament and the Council of the European ... -
Best Practices in Citizen Science for Environmental Monitoring: Commission Staff Working Document.
(European Commission, Luxembourg, 2020)The volume of environmental knowledge generated by citizen science initiatives across the EU offers a unique opportunity to help deliver on the European Green Deal and other EU (and global) priorities, and to involve the ... -
On the impact of Citizen Science-derived data quality on deep learning based classification in marine images.
(2019)The evaluation of large amounts of digital image data is of growing importance for biology, including for the exploration and monitoring of marine habitats. However, only a tiny percentage of the image data collected is ... -
Citizen science for monitoring seasonal‑scale beach erosion and behaviour with aerial drones.
(2021)Sandy beaches are highly dynamic systems which provide natural protection from the impact of waves to coastal communities. With coastal erosion hazards predicted to increase globally, data to inform decision making on ... -
Community-based monitoring of Alaska’s coastal and ocean environment : best practices for linking Alaska citizens with science.
(Alaska Sea Grant College Program, Fairbanks, AK, 2015)A Community-Based Monitoring (CBM) workshop was convened in Anchorage, Alaska, on April 1-2, 2014. The purpose was to bring together scientists, practitioners, community members, and funders involved in CBM to identify ... -
Data Management Planning for Citizen Science.
(UK Environmental Observation Framework (UKEOF), Bailrigg, UK, 2020)This guidance note provides specific, practical advice to citizen science practitioners (specifically those involved in the planning, collection, storage or use of data) about the development of data management plans ... -
The Contribution of Citizen Scientists to the Monitoring of Marine Litter.
(Springer Open, Heidelberg, Germany, 2015)Citizen science projects are based on volunteer participation of untrained citizens who contribute information, data and samples to scientific studies. Herein we provide an overview of marine litter studies that have ... -
Defining principles for mobile apps and platforms development in citizen science [ Workshop results: December 2016, Berlin, April 2017, Gothenburg].
(2018)Apps for mobile devices and web-based platforms are increasingly used in citizen science projects. While extensive research has been done in multiple areas of studies, from Human-Computer Interaction to public engagement ... -
Advancing Citizen Science for Coastal and Ocean Research.
(European Marine Board, Ostend, Belgium, 2017)Citizen Science is an approach which involves members of the public in gathering scientific data and, in more advanced cases, also involves them in the analysis of such data and in the design of scientific research. ...
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