Tag Archives: community science

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Karina Nielsen loves going to the beach as much as any Californian — and may love it even more than most. That’s because as a marine ecologist, she knows those long sandy stretches that look so empty are actually busy with life. “So many of the […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Standing in front of the large kelp forest tank at the Monterey Bay aquarium, volunteer SCUBA divers with the Reef Check program look at the list of species held within like a checklist. “I’ve seen all but one of these” says one. “And sometimes there’s a […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> This is the first in a series of longer articles profiling the citizen science programs of the Central Coast based on our research efforts (see the introduction here). Stay tuned for others as we analyze the data we’ve collected and start to make sense of the […]

**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 challenge of connecting citizen science with management. At the same time we’ve been venturing […]

**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 collect data, then one person sits down, analyzes the data, writes up a manuscript about […]