scholarly journals Advancing Citizen Science for Coastal and Ocean Research

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Garcia-Soto ◽  
Gro I. van der Meeren ◽  
Jane Delany ◽  
Christine Domegan ◽  
Karin Dubsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Marine Policy ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Marine Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level

n Citizen Science, members of the general public collaborate with scientists to generate and use data relating to the natural world. For the many fields of marine research, this is a particularly powerful approach which should not be overlooked. The sheer scale of coastal and ocean environments mean that it would take several lifetimes for scientists to study them alone. By collaborating with citizens, a much greater number of people can be mobilized to gather a wealth of data and develop new scientific knowledge and understanding. The variety of data types which are amenable to Citizen Science, as outlined in the position paper, are great, meaning that there could be a project to suit everyone. Citizen Science can also enable participants to improve their Ocean Literacy, gain new skills and experiences, and can also empower them to participate in the process of delivering future marine policy.Now, more than ever, marine science research is needed to understand the impacts of a world undergoing change. The rise of Marine Citizen Science to help address this need is therefore timely. This paper highlights opportunities, challenges and best practice in Marine Citizen Science, and sets out a list of high-level strategic recommendations for the future development of Marine Citizen Science in Europe. It presents examples of existing Marine Citizen Science initiatives in Europe to illustrate good practice. Common concerns such as data quality and maintaining engagement are discussed, as are future opportunities such as increased use of technology and potential role of Marine Citizen Science in informing marine policy and conservation. The paper closes with a list of high-level strategic recommendations for the future development of Marine Citizen Science in Europe.

scholarly journals Marine Citizen Science: Towards an Engaged and Ocean Literate Society

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
European Marine Board
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
General Public ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Marine Policy ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Literate Society

Marine Citizen Science is an area which is rapidly gaining interest, and it’s easy to see why. Citizen Science is where scientists and the general public collaborate to co-generate greater knowledge and understanding of the natural world. For the marine environment, the applications are as varied as the ocean itself. Involving the general public in marine scientific research can bring the vast ocean closer to home, explaining its wonders and raising awareness of the challenges it faces, making Marine Citizen Science a powerful tool in striving for a truly ocean literate society. The wide variety of data amenable to Marine Citizen Science, along with advances in technology, also mean that there is a project for everyone. More than just as a means for education, Citizen Science is also a means to empowerment. Co-operation between science and society can enable the collection and analysis of data on much larger scales of time, space and sheer numbers than would be possible for science alone. This is turn can provide a concrete scientific basis of evidence which can inform and guide marine policy to truly make a difference.This policy brief answers the question “Why Marine Citizen Science?”, and presents the wide scope of applications in marine science research. It also looks at future opportunities with regard to the use of technology, as well as highlighting the potential for Marine Citizen Science to be a tool for marine policy. It finishes by presenting recommendations going forward, as both short- and long-term action areas, to ensure that Marine Citizen Science can continue to progress in Europe.

scholarly journals ERT Challenges in the Post-2015 Era

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-86
Author(s):  
Manzoor Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Rural Transformation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Future ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
High Level

This paper provides a background to the on-going discourse on post-2015 global development agenda. It mentions key points from the UN Secretary General’s report on MDG progress and the process of formulating the future development agenda. The recommendations of the High Level Panel on post-2015 agenda and the work of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) are examined from the perspective of Education for Rural Transformation (ERT). It is concluded that the premise and rationale of ERT has received scant attention in the future development agenda discourse. The arguments regarding the pertinence of ERT in combating poverty and promoting sustainable development are noted, drawing on the recent UNESCO- INRULED study on this topic. 

Research Status of Copper Foil Surface Treatment and Development of Novel Process

2017 ◽  
Vol 727 ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Wen Jing Wang ◽  
Xue Feng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Surface Treatment ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Copper Foil ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Foil Surface ◽  
Research Status ◽  
New Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
Brush Plating

Surface treated copper foil and its preparation is very important and widely used. The science research and enterprise competition always focus on the surface treated methods in the copper foil field. This paper summarized the typical surface treated processes of copper foil, and emphasized on research progress and problems of copper foil surface treated processes. The brush plating-dealloying treated process of copper foil was proposed based on the problems. The principle and research status of new process was introduced. At last, the future development of surface treated process and application prospect were forecast.

Three Frontiers for the Future of Biodiversity Research Using Citizen Science Data

BioScience ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey T Callaghan ◽  
Alistair G B Poore ◽  
Thomas Mesaglio ◽  
Angela T Moles ◽  
Shinichi Nakagawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
Science Data ◽  
Biodiversity Research ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Future

Abstract Citizen science is fundamentally shifting the future of biodiversity research. But although citizen science observations are contributing an increasingly large proportion of biodiversity data, they only feature in a relatively small percentage of research papers on biodiversity. We provide our perspective on three frontiers of citizen science research, areas that we feel to date have had minimal scientific exploration but that we believe deserve greater attention as they present substantial opportunities for the future of biodiversity research: sampling the undersampled, capitalizing on citizen science's unique ability to sample poorly sampled taxa and regions of the world, reducing taxonomic and spatial biases in global biodiversity data sets; estimating abundance and density in space and time, develop techniques to derive taxon-specific densities from presence or absence and presence-only data; and capitalizing on secondary data collection, moving beyond data on the occurrence of single species and gain further understanding of ecological interactions among species or habitats. The contribution of citizen science to understanding the important biodiversity questions of our time should be more fully realized.

The e-Social Science research agenda

2010 ◽  
Vol 368 (1925) ◽  
pp. 3761-3778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Halfpenny ◽  
Rob Procter
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
National Centre ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Uk

In this paper, we use the experience of the first 5 years of the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s National Centre for e-Social Science as a basis for reflecting upon the future development of the e-Social Science research agenda.

scholarly journals The Relationship between AI and Human in the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yide Song
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Potential Risk ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Basic Algorithm ◽  
The Future ◽  
Paper Review ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between human and Artificial intelligence (AI) is an arguable topic. In some fictions, AI has been considered as a potential risk for human. However, this topic has seldom considered from both technology and fictions. In this paper review the recent AI technology and fictions. This article presents the hope of AI in daily life and science research, creation and basic algorithm. It shows that people will rely more on AI, however it is impossible to replace human without breakthrough in future development. In the end, this paper justified that AI need restriction.

Obecny stan badań nad Zagładą na Ukrainie

2014 ◽  
pp. 889-915
Author(s):  
Anna Abakunkova
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Holocaust Studies ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Future

The article examines the state of the Holocaust historiography in Ukraine for the period of 2010 – beginning of 2014. The review analyzes activities of major research and educational organizations in Ukraine which have significant part of projects devoted to the Holocaust; main publications and discussions on the Holocaust in Ukraine, including publications of Ukrainian authors in academic European and American journals. The article illustrates contemporary tendencies and conditions of the Holocaust Studies in Ukraine, defines major problems and shows perspectives of the future development of the Holocaust historiography in Ukraine.

Remedies for Breach of Contract: The Future Development of Scots Law in its European and International Context

1997 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector L MacQueen
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
European Contract ◽  
Breach Of Contract ◽  
International Context ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
International Conventions ◽  
Law Commission

This paper,first presented on 21 October 1995 at ajoint seminar ofthe Scottish Law Commission and the Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, on the subject of breach of contract, considers the future development of the law in this area, first by considering its history and current state in comparative terms and drawing the conclusion that it is characterised by a mixture of Civilian and Common Law elements; second, by comparing Scots law with the provisions on breach contained in recently published proposals for a harmonised law of contract (the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the Principles of European Contract Law prepared by the Lando Commission, and the draft “code”for the United Kingdom prepared on behalf of the English Law Commission by Harvey McGregor in the late 1960s) and in international conventions on the sale of goods. Although Scots law emerges reasonably wellfrom this exercise, there are a number of points to be taken on board in any future reform, as well as some insights into important underlying principles.

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