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Tag Archives: research and monitoring
Focusing In: Program Profiles of Central Coast Citizen Science
February 6th, 2014
**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 […]
What is the role of peer-reviewed literature in citizen science?
January 29th, 2014
**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 […]
Goin’ Fishin’: Scientists, Anglers and Charter Boat Captains are Teaming Up on Collaborative Fisheries Research Project
January 24th, 2014
**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? […]
Good Science and Bad Science in Democratized Science
January 22nd, 2014
**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 […]