Tag Archives: community science

**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 get such a diverse – and at times contentious – group to collaborate on a fisheries research project? […]

**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 that the data might be used incorrectly to support opinions rather than scientific conclusions. In our […]

**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 and consequently found their appropriate place among the accepted practices in science. Each has also weathered changes […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> While the goal of many citizen science programs is mainly to produce solid scientific data and better understand the world we live in, the elevator pitch about such programs often then leads to ‘oh, and it’s a great win-win-win because it increases scientific literacy, provides needed […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> A few weeks ago, in preparation for a meeting with Amy Freitag and Ryan Meyer about the California Citizen Science Initiative, a few staff and collaborators from NOAA’s San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) got together to talk about citizen science. Dr. Andy Chang, […]