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You’re listening to informal chat with our speakers: Cliff Johnson, Cait Bailey, Carrie Seltzer, Greg Newman, Holli Kohl, Jessica Bean, Marc Kuchner.
We’ll start the program at 3:00 pm EDT.
Why choose an existing platform?
Pros:
Cons:
More choice = more better for more people!
September 21 event details:
3:00 Welcome - Sarah, Reanna, Marc
3:05 Cait Bailey, Anecdata
3:15 Greg Newman, CitSci.org
3:25 Cliff Johnson, Zooniverse
3:35 Jessica Bean, FieldScope
3:45 Carrie Seltzer, iNaturalist
3:55 Holli Kohl, GLOBE Observer
4:05 Discussion among panelists; Discussion with audience
4:28 Closing announcements
4:30-5:00 Informal chat with all who care to stay
Cait Bailey
Anecdata
The Anecdata team
MDI Biological Laboratory campus in Salsbury Cove, ME
About Anecdata
What projects work well?
Projects that work well on Anecdata:
Projects that (probably) would work best on another platform:
Who’s using Anecdata?
Active projects | > 300 |
Users | > 15,500 |
Observations | > 111,000 |
Photos and images | > 74,000 |
Participation Models
Ways to explore data
Tabular feed
Spatial
Analysis
These views can also be embedded on other websites!
Ways to communicate
Comment on observations
Post in project forums
Send direct messages
SciStarter integration
Project managers can opt in to share their project with SciStarter’s database of participatory science projects.
If you’re a SciStarter user and you’re participating in a SciStarter-enabled project, your participation in the project will also appear on your SciStarter dashboard.
General trends:
Topics:
Project Organizers:
Countries:
Languages:
Greg Newman
CitSci.org
CitSci - Your Free & Open Participatory Science Platform
Greg Newman, Stacy Lynn, Sarah Newman, Brandon Budnicki,
Guhan Dheenadayalan Sivakami, Lee Casuto
CitSci | Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
What’s Been Studied
Overview
Key Manager Features
Upload Monitoring Locations in Bulk
Key Participant Features
Flexible Membership & Privacy
Platform Integrations
Air Table is a powerful next-gen platform to streamline workflows that augments CitSci users workflows with additional graphing, charting, spreadsheet manipulation, and sharing of data. We make it easy for you to share CitSci observation data with your Air Table bases. Note - AirTable pricing may apply.
Air Table (New!)
SciStarter
Share project details with SciStarter and be listed on the platform. Note: we are fixing a glitch in the SciStarter Participant API which shares your CitSci observations with your SciStarter dashboard - we plan to have that back online soon. Also note that we are soon to enable single sign on (SSO) for logging into CitSci with your SciStarter account
In the Works - R Plugin and Google SSO
Good Fit:
Poor Fit:
Cliff Johnson
Co-Director & Science Lead
Adler Planetarium & Northwestern Univ.
Zooniverse
The Zooniverse…
…is a free, online platform for people-powered research.
~100 Active Projects
>400 Total Launched since 2009
~1 Launch per Week since 2017
2.6 Million Volunteers
Wide Range of Domains:
Astronomy, Ecology, Humanities, Biomedical, and more
>400
Publications
>150,000
Daily Classifications
Zooniverse Projects
Example:
Galaxy Zoo: DECaLS
314,000 images
7.5 million classifications
Typical Project
10k-100k Subjects
100k-1M Classifications
1k-10k Volunteers
Common Project Needs
Tasks / Tools: marking, multiple-choice question, text, dropdown
Flexible Data Formats: image, video, text, JSON data, audio
Free Project Builder: zooniverse.org/lab
Docs: help.zooniverse.org
Translations
Mobile App
Talk: Project Discussion Tool
Project Builder Features
Researcher Tools
Ready to build a project?
Build Project
Zoo Internal Review
Beta
Test
Launch!
Matchmaker, matchmaker…
Good Fit:
Poor Fit:
NASA-Zooniverse Partnership
12 active projects, 19 total projects during 3+ year partnership
Key NASA Grant Program:
Citizen Science Seed Funding Program (CSSFP)
10 awardees using Zooniverse Platform out of 24 total awards
Next Submission Deadline: 24 Jan 2024 (ROSES-2023)
Jessica Bean
FieldScope
FieldScope is a…
FieldScope empowers…
How does FieldScope serve community and citizen science?
fieldscope.org
FieldScope Projects by Geographic Size
International/ National
Statewide/ Regional
Local
FrogWatch USA
Akron Zoo (formerly AZA)
species monitoring
Budburst
Chicago Botanic Gardens
plant phenology monitoring
Journey North
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Species Migration Monitoring
Soil Testing USA
Citizens Science Community Resources (CSRC)
soil monitoring
Globe at Night
NSF Noir Lab
astronomical observation monitoring
Indigenous Mapping Community
Multiple Organizations
multiple environmental and cultural monitoring
WaterInsights
Water Insights Program
water quality monitoring
RiverWatch of Colorado
River Science and Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW)
water quality monitoring
Sharks of California
Ocean Sanctuaries
species monitoring
Stream Discovery
National Great Rivers Research and Education Center
water quality monitoring
Chesapeake Watershed Project
Multiple Organizations
water quality monitoring
#WeAreCoastal
Oceans Learning Partnership
water quality and trash monitoring
Clark County Student
Watershed Monitoring Network
City of Vancouver, Washington
water quality monitoring
The Indigenous
Observation Network
Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council
water quality monitoring
Citizens Restoring American Chestnuts
The Appalachian Laboratory and the American Chestnut Foundation
plant phenology monitoring
Inland Seas
water quality monitoring
Great Smoky Mountains Nat’l Park
National Park Service
Species & Environmental Monitoring
Tree Free Potomac Watershed Initiative
Alice Ferguson Foundation
trash monitoring
Loko Ea Foundation
Coastal Fish Pond Monitoring
species monitoring
Bat Activity Trends
Woodland Park Zoo, WA
Bat monitoring
Our Forests
Sierra Streams Institute
forest monitoring
Over 24,000 participants!
FieldScope is a platform used by citizen and community science programs to activate participants to collect, visualize, analyze and share their data. Projects hosted on FieldScope get access to these tools and more:
Shared Project Database
Tools for Project Managers
Management tools you can use to keep track of your participants and their contributions, manage and download project data, and more.
Tools for Groups
Does you have groups working within your project? FieldScope has the ability to have groups within a project for distributed project management across groups or chapters.
A mobile-friendly platform where you can upload past data from spreadsheets and invite your participants to add new data as they collect it, including when in the field and offline.
Visualization and Analysis
Your project’s data comes to life in a new way through our maps and graphs that you and your project participants can explore, analyze and organize into shareable data dashboards.
New offline mode!
Supports photos, audio, & video!
Embed visualizations in other websites!
Invitations to Inquiry
Project Goals
Provide large numbers of teachers and students with a first experience of conducting inquiry with authentic environmental data.
Rationale
https://bscs.org/resources/invitations-to-inquiry
Launching a FieldScope Project
Thank you!
Jessica Bean: jrbean@berkeley.edu
This project has been funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant GBMF9768.02 to UC Berkeley & Grant GBMF5241.01 to BSCS Science Learning.
Carrie Seltzer
iNaturalist
A platform for sharing biodiversity encounters
Good fit:
Poor fit:
“Collection”
Good for place & taxon based projects
Automatically collects observations
“Traditional”
Good if filters won’t work
Can have additional required “observation fields” (e.g. host plant)
A well-established platform
2.8M+ people worldwide
since 2008
This hour we expect:
Holli Kohl
Is The GLOBE Program a platform?
GLOBE is an international science and education program managed internationally through bilateral agreements between the US government and those of 127 participating countries.
GLOBE Observer is the app of The GLOBE Program.
Maybe not, but…
If you want to collect environmental data, there’s a good chance GLOBE is doing it already. Can you work with a GLOBE protocol?
Atmosphere: aerosols, air temperature, barometric pressure, clouds, precipitation, relative humidity, surface ozone, surface temperature, water vapor, wind, weather station
Biosphere: Arctic bird migration, biometry, tree height, carbon cycle, fire fuel, green down, green up, land cover classification, lilac phenology, phenological gardens, ruby-throated hummingbirds, seaweed reproductive phenology
Hydrosphere: alkalinity, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, freshwater macroinvertebrates, mosquitoes, nitrates, pH, salinity and titration, water temperature, water transparency
Pedosphere: bulk density, frost tube, soil characterization, soil fertility, soil infiltration, soil moisture (3 protocols), soil particle density, soil particle size distribution, soil pH, soil temperature
Earth as a System: agriculture bundle, air quality bundle, ENSO bundle, mosquito bundle, ocean bundle, river & lakes bundle, soils bundle, urban bundle, water cycle bundle, water quality bundle, weather bundle
Why use GLOBE for your project?
Tools for Building on GLOBE
GLOBE Teams allows you to organize a group for collective action. You can see who is in the group and access all of your group’s data from your team page. Anyone can create a team.
Tools for building on GLOBE
New science/community data request function in pilot in the United States for 4 app-based protocols (clouds, mosquito habitats, land cover, and trees). This allows you to request observations in a region you specific.
www.citizenscience.org/platforms
There are other platforms!
citizen science month
Questions to answer when shopping for platforms
What’s the main task I’m asking people to do?
What’s my ultimate goal? What’s my close second goal? What features do I need to achieve these?
What design support do I need?
What recruiting support will I need? Is my project open to anyone or for a discrete group?
What interaction do I want to have with participants? What interaction do I want to participants to have with each other?
What training do I need to provide?
How much of the scientific process do I want to involve participants in?
What are my specific data needs? Rigor, privacy of sensitive information, legal accountability
What are my specific data privacy needs? Protected data, protected species, private land?
Do I have funding for ongoing platform maintenance?
Discussion
Parting notes
4th Thursday NASA Citizen Science Office Hours
with Marc Kuchner, Sarah Kirn, and special guests!
NASA GLOBE Funding Opportunity
Submission Deadlines:
Step-1 Proposal: October 6, 2023 (REQUIRED; only 1-3 pages)
(Step-2 Proposal: December 20, 2023
Interested in an “in real life” conversation at AGU?
Reflect - and help us better serve you!
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See you next at:
NASA Cit Sci Project Clinics:
bring your challenge, solve it with colleagues and mentors.
Dates in October
Association for Advancement of Participatory Sciences (formerly CSA):
10 Year Member Celebration
(Oct. 5th, 3pm ET)