Feb 6, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> We’ve reached a turning point in our citizen science blogging experiment on Facing West. Until now we’ve been exploring, here in these virtual pages, a wide range of topics relevant to the...
Jan 30, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Scientists, fishermen, tribal governments, and citizen groups from 30 organizations across eleven projects will work together to develop a baseline of ocean conditions and human uses in the...
Jan 29, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Professional scientists sit at the helm of some citizen science groups. For these groups, the scientific process exemplified is one very similar to a laboratory at a university. Lots of people...
Jan 24, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Due to a long history of perceived competing interests, recreational fishermen, academics, scientists and charter boat captains aren’t necessarily known for working well together. So how do you...
Jan 22, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> A common complaint about the increasing reliance on citizen science to understand our changing environment is that the information collected will not be as rigorous as from professional data and...
Jan 9, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Depending on the strain of citizen science, people point to cooperative weather observing, water quality, or birds as ‘the oldest’. Each arose in the cultural context of their time...
