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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"citizen science"”.
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Smartphone Privacy in Citizen Science
… such as smartphone-based crowdsensing and citizen science. A prototype named GROUPSENSE was developed to support anonymous-yet-accountable crowdsensing with SRBE in Android devices. From this prototype, an Android crowdsensing application was implemented to support privacy in citizen …
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Co-created citizen science for community action
‘Co-created citizen science for community action’ explores how co-created approaches to citizen science practice can be utilised to support communities to take action on the issues that matter to them. Co-created citizen science is the participation of citizens in the whole of the research process, …
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Public Engagement Technology for Bioacoustic Citizen Science
… the potential for such devices to be used by citizen scientists interacting with bioacoustic data such as birdsong. This thesis describes design research and field evaluation, in collaboration with conservationists and educators, and technological artefacts implemented as mobile applications …
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Organizing Rural Communities for Effective Citizen Science Programs
Citizen science, or the use of volunteers for scientific projects, is becoming a popular way for agencies and organizations to collect data. The benefits of citizen science include saving the agency or organization resources, educating the community about conservation issues, and promoting land …
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Organizing Rural Communities for Effective Citizen Science Programs
Citizen science, or the use of volunteers for scientific projects, is becoming a popular way for agencies and organizations to collect data. The benefits of citizen science include saving the agency or organization resources, educating the community about conservation issues, and promoting land …
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Empowering Citizen Science: A Generic Data Collection Framework
Citizen Science (CS) is collaboration between scientists and citizens to expand opportunities for scientific data collection and problem solving. Recent advancements such as the Internet, social networks and smart devices have created a technological platform for CS to engage more citizens to work …
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The scientific and sociocultural value of citizen science
At its best, conservation science serves as an interface between multiple disciplines, bringing together innovation and insight from the humanities, arts, business and economics, health, natural and social sciences to address the most pressing challenges facing the planet and its biodiversity. …
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Characterizing Novelty as a Motivator in Online Citizen Science
<p>Citizen science projects rely on the voluntary contribution of nonscientists to take part in scientific research projects. Projects taking place exclusively over the Internet face significant challenges, chief among them is the attracting and keeping the critical mass of volunteers needed to …
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Evaluating population estimates of mountain goats based on citizen science
Citizen science programs that use trained volunteers may be a cost-effective method for monitoring wildlife at large spatial and temporal scales. However, few studies have compared inferences made from data collected by volunteers to professionally collected data. In Glacier National Park (GNP), …
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Evaluating population estimates of mountain goats based on citizen science
Citizen science programs that use trained volunteers may be a cost-effective method for monitoring wildlife at large spatial and temporal scales. However, few studies have compared inferences made from data collected by volunteers to professionally collected data. In Glacier National Park (GNP), …
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Understanding Seahorse Distribution and Ecology in Malta through Citizen Science
… it was deemed a good candidate for a sub-aquatic citizen science initiative. In this study, citizen science approaches were compared to systematic surveys. The surveys found very few seahorses, whereas, once well publicised, records of seahorses from citizen scientists were relatively frequent in …
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Citizen Science: Training Pet Dogs to Detect the Spotted Lanternfly
Dogs have been used alongside humans as detection tools for centuries. There have been a multitude of studies published that demonstrate the accuracy and utility of detection dogs, more specifically conservation scent detection dogs. With ubiquitous agricultural threats in the United States, there …
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Online citizen science projects: an exploration of motivation, contribution and participation
The number of online citizen science projects has increased significantly over the past decade, yet some aspects of participation are poorly understood as is the motivation behind the involvement of the scientists who set up these projects, and the citizen scientists who take part. This thesis …
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Exploring the transformative potential of citizen science in marine governance processes
… examining the participatory research practice of citizen science, examining the potential that it has to transform two key challenges facing regimes of marine governance: (i) knowledge rationalisation and (ii) the marginalisation of local communities. Although participatory research is far from a …
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Designing and evaluating participatory cyber-infrastructure systems for multi-scale citizen science
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The ecology of community environmental groups: Integrating restoration, partnerships and citizen science
… participation in environmental monitoring (citizen science) is recognised as an important mechanism for producing robust data that contributes to research, management and policy development, and for enhancing scientific and environmental literacy. New Zealand, however, lags far behind …
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Analyzing perceptions of citizen science as part of an international learning experience
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Establishing the Citizen Science Stream Index (CSSI) to monitor water quality in freshwaters
… data hampers efforts to improve water quality. Citizen science projects involve non-experts contributing to scientific data voluntarily and have been identified by the EU as a growing field of practice that is likely to yield significant outcomes for water quality and data capture. In this …
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