Tag Archives: science

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Almost every article about non-practicing scientists participating in scientific research written recently begins with a review of what such a practice could be called: citizen science, public participation in scientific research, community-based monitoring, and volunteer monitoring, to name the most common. Some of the best-known citizen […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> We are happy to welcome Amy Freitag to the Ocean Science Trust! As a Science Integration Fellow, Amy will play an invaluable role in advancing our understanding of the potential role that citizen science can play in MPA monitoring. Amy’s wealth of experience includes time as […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Volunteers sample fish populations for the Milwaukee River Watershed Fish Passage Program. Photo credit: Ozaukee County Fish Passage Program. As we continue on this blog to explore questions about linking citizen science with adaptive management, we’ll be looking at individual programs, but also at networks, capacity […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Too often the problem of linking science and policy is either ignored, or misrepresented. With this article, recently published in the Guardian, my colleagues and I had two central aims. First, we wanted to clear up some fundamental misconceptions about the challenge of effectively integrating science […]