The current state of citizen science as a tool for ecological research and public engagement

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - Tập 10 Số 6 - Trang 291-297 - 2012
Janis L. Dickinson1,2, Jennifer Shirk1,2, David N. Bonter1, Rick Bonney1, Rhiannon Crain1, Jason Martin1, Tina Phillips1, Karen J. Purcell1
1Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2Department of Natural Resources Cornell University Ithaca NY

Tóm tắt

Approaches to citizen science – an indispensable means of combining ecological research with environmental education and natural history observation – range from community‐based monitoring to the use of the internet to “crowd‐source” various scientific tasks, from data collection to discovery. With new tools and mechanisms for engaging learners, citizen science pushes the envelope of what ecologists can achieve, both in expanding the potential for spatial ecology research and in supplementing existing, but localized, research programs. The primary impacts of citizen science are seen in biological studies of global climate change, including analyses of phenology, landscape ecology, and macro‐ecology, as well as in sub‐disciplines focused on species (rare and invasive), disease, populations, communities, and ecosystems. Citizen science and the resulting ecological data can be viewed as a public good that is generated through increasingly collaborative tools and resources, while supporting public participation in science and Earth stewardship.

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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Tập 10 Số 6

291-297

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