Incorporating citizen science to study plastics in the environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1392-1403 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. R. Zettler ◽  
H. Takada ◽  
B. Monteleone ◽  
N. Mallos ◽  
M. Eriksen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Marine Debris ◽  
Patchy Distribution ◽  
Global Problem

Plastic marine debris is a global problem, but due to its widespread and patchy distribution, gathering sufficient samples for scientific research is challenging with limited ship time and human resources.

Citizens of the future

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-144
Author(s):  
Colin Milburn ◽  
Melissa Wills
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
Technical Innovations ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Utopian Thought

Over the last decade, a variety of ‘citizen science’ projects have turned to video games and other tools of gamification to enrol participants and to encourage public engagement with scientific research questions. This article examines the significance of sf in the field of citizen science, focusing on projects such as Eyewire, Be a Martian!, Sea Hero Quest, Play to Cure: Genes in Space, Forgotten Island and the ‘Project Discovery’ experiments in EVE Online. The sf stories that frame these projects often allegorise the neoliberal assumptions and immaterial labour practices of citizen science, even while seeming to hide or disguise them. At the same time, the fictional frames enable players to imagine social and technical innovations that, while not necessarily achievable in the present, nevertheless point to a future of democratic science, social progress and responsible innovation - blips of utopian thought from the zones of crowdsourced labour.

scholarly journals Citizen Science, Communication, and Expertise: An Examination of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center's Plastics Project

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Wehner
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
Marine Debris ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
Project Staff ◽  
Educational Benefits ◽  
Science Projects

Citizen science projects have the opportunity to educate participants about environmental issues being studied first-hand and often in the field. The Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s Plastics Project utilized volunteers to collect and sort through samples of sand on beaches to estimate the abundance of plastic marine debris on beaches throughout the Puget Sound of Washington State. Volunteers were surveyed to determine if educational benefits were evident, if participants were educating others and with what frequency, what communication media were used and preferred, and who participants identified as experts. All participants reported being better educated about plastic marine and most reported changes in their consumer behavior. Participants who educated others on a regular basis also attended environmental and plastic marine debris-focused events, and interacted with experts regularly. No other demographic variables examined were able to distinguish more active educators from less active. Participants used and preferred email and in-person communication media while social media and postal mail were among the least utilized. Participants identified a wide array of experts, including university scientists and Plastics Project staff. Citizen science projects may be beneficial at inducing consumer behavior changes and educating participants, and should take care to explore lectures and other in-person communication approaches to increase opportunities for learning. Participants’ wide perception of expertise should be taken advantage of to increase opportunities for participant-expert interaction and address participant questions and concerns.

Student participation in a coastal water quality citizen science project and its contribution to the conceptual and procedural learning of chemistry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luís Araújo ◽  
Carla Morais ◽  
João Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Coastal Water ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Procedural Learning ◽  
Science Project ◽  
Coastal Water Quality ◽  
Chemistry Learning ◽  
Citizen Science Project

The active participation of citizens in scientific research, through citizen science, has been proven successful. However, knowledge on the potential of citizen science within formal chemistry learning, at the conceptual...

A visualization tool for citizen-science marine debris big data

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-88
Author(s):  
Graeme F. Clark ◽  
Jordan Gacutan ◽  
Robert Lawther ◽  
Emma L. Johnston ◽  
Heidi Tait ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Marine Debris ◽  
Visualization Tool

scholarly journals Exploring serendipitous dialogue

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. E ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Weitkamp
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Areas

Over the past decades there has been an increasing recognition of the need to promote dialogue between science and society. Often this takes the form of formal processes, such as citizen’s juries, that are designed to allow the public to contribute their views on particular scientific research areas. But there are also many less formal mechanisms that promote a dialogue between science and society. This editorial considers science festivals and citizen science in this context and argues that we need a greater understanding of the potential impacts of these projects on the individuals involved, both scientists and the public.

scholarly journals Mathematical Emergency Response Model of Rescue Services

2021 ◽  
Vol 2096 (1) ◽  
pp. 012124
Author(s):  
A V Maximov ◽  
A V Matveev ◽  
G N Zavodskov
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Simultaneous Optimization ◽  
Response Model ◽  
Rescue Services ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Emergency Response Model

Abstract The growing number of incidents and emergencies around the world is raising the issue of security. To improve security, states allocate huge amounts of money, both to support rescue services, and for scientific research in this area. The article reveals an approach to the development of a mathematical model of the rescue services functioning, taking into account the relationship between its individual types of forces and means, allowing simultaneous optimization of various types of material and human resources.

scholarly journals Citizen Science in Support of Digital Earth

2019 ◽  
pp. 593-622
Author(s):  
Maria Antonia Brovelli ◽  
Marisa Ponti ◽  
Sven Schade ◽  
Patricia Solís
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Digital Earth ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Responsible Research ◽  
Different Levels

Abstract Citizen science can be thought of as a tremendous catalyst for making Digital Earth a participation model of our world. This chapter presents a wide overview of the concept and practice of citizen science in terms of the technologies and social impact. Definitions of citizen science and various existing approaches to citizen involvement are described, from simple contributions to projects proposed by someone else to the design and planning of science as a bottom-up process. To illustrate these concepts, the relevant example of OpenStreetMap is described in detail, and other examples are mentioned and briefly discussed. Social innovation connected with citizen science is focused on to highlight different levels of direct citizen contributions to scientific research and indirect effects on academia, and studies driven by new questions that may support responsible research and innovation (RRI), governments and public administration in making better informed decisions. Despite its growth and success in relatively few years, citizen science has not fully overcome a number of persistent challenges related to quality, equity, inclusion, and governance. These themes and related complex facets are discussed in detail in the last section of the chapter.

scholarly journals Citizen science and crowdsourcing in the field of marine scientific research — the MaDCrow project

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (06) ◽  
pp. A09
Author(s):  
Paolo Diviacco ◽  
Antonio Nadali ◽  
Massimiliano Nolich ◽  
Andrea Molinaro ◽  
Massimiliano Iurcev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Marine Research ◽  
Scientific Institutions

Marine research is as important as very demanding since it requires expensive infrastructures and resources. Scientific institutions, on the contrary, have very limited funding so that the seas remain, still, mostly unexplored. Another serious concern is that society at large often resonates with fake news, while scientists sometimes tend to bias research with their backgrounds and paradigms. We think that all these issues can be addressed opening the process of knowledge building to the questions and needs of stakeholders and laypeople. The MaDCrow project proposed and tested several paths to attain these goals.

scholarly journals ASPECTS OF THE OPERATION OF INNOVATIVE COMPANIES ON THE EXAMPLE OF EASTERN POLAND

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwona Koza
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Economic Base ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject

Innovativeness is the subject of numerous studies in which researchers look for its conditions, causes and effects. The innovation process begins even before the commencement of scientific research in the enterprise, at the stage of creating an idea, and ends with the implementation of innovation and its dissemination. It is better to construct a wide range of indicators relating to the conditions or the determinants of functioning of innovative companies, including issues, such as, entrepreneurship, technological development and diversity. Particularly interesting can be a specification of these aspects in relation to Eastern Poland - a region with unfavorable conditions for business development because of insufficiently developed economic base, as well as underdevelopment of transport, economic and human resources infrastructure and local market.

scholarly journals AN EXTENSIBLE FRAMEWORK FOR OBSERVATORY SYSTEM BASED ON DOCKER CLOUD

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
J. Han ◽  
C. Cui ◽  
D. Fan ◽  
Y. Xu ◽  
C. Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Hardware Platform ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Great Progress ◽  
Utility Rate ◽  
High Utility ◽  
Full Consideration

Remote observatory is playing more and more important role in scientific research, astronomy education and citizen science. With many years' development, remote observatory whether hardware or software has made great progress. It supports single telescope well and has been very mature. For high utility rate of an observatory, more and more observatories has began to run multiple telescopes to provide more observation services. But it also takes some challenges, for example how to manage telescopes, how to manage lots of observers, how to update driver or application quickly and how to realize coordination and cooperation between different telescopes. After taking into full consideration of the problems, we propose an extensible framework for observatory system based on Docker cloud. It not only could solve that challenges from multi telescopes, but also could make software application to support more hardware platform easily.

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