Proud to be this week’s volunteer spotlight for Project Phoenix: https://www.instagram.com/p/CwYSYmcvD6p/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== #birdwatching #communityscience #WildlifeConservation

Second round of watching birds for Project Phoenix. If you are in CA and want to know how to get involved, here’s the lowdown: https://www.project-phoenix-investigating-bird-responses-to-smoke.org #communityscience #birdwatching #wildfires

Good news for #bats! This weekend’s count showed that road construction done with the help of a wildlife mitigation expert resulted in a maternity roost continuing to be used and actually increasing! Great #WildLife news unless you’re a mosquito. I’m proud to be part of this #communityscience initiative.

We watched birds for science yesterday. If you’re in CA you can too! https://www.project-phoenix-investigating-bird-responses-to-smoke.org/our-project #birding #communityscience #ClimateChange

We have 67 observations for #ConeCounters - Lite so far. Would love to get more data. What's happening for NEW cone production on trees near you this year? All locations are welcome! To join, check out: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/cone-counters-lite #CommunityScience

We are excited to announce a call for abstracts for a special collection on AI and the Future of Citizen Science in the journal Citizen Science: Theory and Practice. Please find the details of the call here: https://lnkd.in/eN3dUiu7

In particular, note that the deadline for abstract submission is September 8, 2023. We encourage submissions from across the disciplines including domain researchers, educators, social scientists, ethicists and policy makers.

Lucy Fortson (University of Minnesota), Kevin Crowston (Syracuse University), Laure Kloetzer (Université de Neuchâtel), and Marisa Ponti (University of Gothenburg) will edit this Collection and encourage you to consider it as an outlet for a future research paper. Earlier submission is encouraged to allow time for revision(s).
#citizenscience #AI #communityscience

Another bat roost count is complete! #bats #CommunityScience

This paper which I was priviledged to co-author with two very knowledgeable and skilled amateur botanists is a strong testimony of the power of #communityscience in #botany - "Supplement to Faroe Islands botanical list with 64 species or subspecies including rare, new and potentially invasive species with comments" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/njb.03586

This paper which I was priviledged to co-author with two very knowledgeable and skilled amateur botanists is a strong testimony of the power of #communityscience in #botany - "Supplement to Faroe Islands botanical list with 64 species or subspecies including rare, new and potentially invasive species with comments" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/njb.03586

If you read early 20th c Norwegian handwriting well, University of Oslo Museum of Natural History is looking for folks to help them with a plant humanities project.

"Furthermore, the project is a collaboration between the humanities and natural sciences. This cooperation is necessary for a comprehensive understanding of human relationships with plants."

https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/research/projects/people-and-plants/

#CommunityScience #PlantHumanities #Botany

Tomorrow is the start of
#CityNatureChallenge aka time to be wildlife paparazzi for the sake of biodiversity research & bragging rights, go charge your cameras you animal lurkers

https://crosscut.com/briefs/2023/04/citizen-scientists-invited-track-wa-wildlife-their-phones

#wildlife #biodiversity #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #SciComm

Happy Earth Day! Join me and other community science & nature lovers all over the planet next weekend for the City Nature Challenge!

Here's some links:

The official Monterey Bay CNC project I'm organizing on iNaturalist- https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-monterey-bay-area-california

City Nature Challenge website-
https://www.citynaturechsllenge.org

Email me with any questions!
MontereyCNC@proton.me

#science #nature #CityNatureChallenge #iNaturalist #Monterey #SantaCruz #CommunityScience #ParticipatoryScience #EarthDay

(Chicago!) Come to the iNaturalist Identification/Social at Metropolitan Brewing on May 2nd at 6PM, hosted by Illinois Science Council for the #CityNatureChallenge

No expertise required - if you know "plant" vs "bird" you can be helpful! Laptop recommended.

RSVP at iscandcnc.eventbrite.com

#CommunityScience #CitizenScience #iNaturalist #Biodiversity #Nature #Chicago #Chicagoland #Illinois #Volunteering #Beer

UH GEO Assistant Professor Aurora Kagawa-Viviani is a recipient of the UHM College of Social Science Spring 2023 Research Support Awards. The funding will support her research, "Community Water Science: Urban punawai as incubators of participatory research and innovation." Congratulations!

@geography #Geography #CommunityScience

I love it when people who don't have degrees in a field make contributions and those contributions are recognized. https://blog.pensoft.net/2023/03/30/tax-man-turned-taxonomist-a-citizen-scientists-journey-into-botany/
#Taxonomy #Botany #CommunityScience

Geosciences in Action is published open-access: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000384826 Check it out & see examples of geoscientists advancing #Sustainability - I’m thrilled the #CommunityScience work I’ve done in OK is featured in Ch.4! Thank you to the authors, editors, American Geophysical Union (AGU) & UNESCO!

Do you know #KrystleHickman, aka @beesip on #Instagram? She is a must-follow for anyone interested #bees. She was just awarded a #NatGeoExplorer grant to continue her important work on #NativeBees. I took an online workshop with her through the L.A. County Arboretum and she is AMAZING. If you don't know about her, please click this link and check out what she does.

https://linktr.ee/BeeSip

#photography #science #CommunityScience #CommunityScientist #Beesip

"Since 2020, most @gbif records for most species have come from iNaturalist."

https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/76606-thank-you-for-helping-generate-most-gbif-records-for-most-species-since-2020

#iNaturalist #GBIF #BioDiversity #CitizenScience #CommunityScience

In case you are interested in our Quercus Quest! collaboration with US National Phenology Network, but couldn't attend last week's webinar, the information page is here: https://usanpn.org/nn/QuercusQuest

... and our recorded webinar from is here: https://youtu.be/a_SGZKQ1lrs

Please reach out with any questions. Thanks!

#oaks #phenology #communityScience

So far... nearly 7300 species of #birds have been reported worldwide in this year's #GreatBackyardBirdCount. Nearly 290,000 #checklists have been submitted! #birding #ornithology #monitoring #wildlife #science #CitizenScience #CommunityScience