Jan 22, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**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...
Jan 9, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**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...
Dec 17, 2013 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**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...
Dec 3, 2013 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**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...
Nov 27, 2013 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Through the California Citizen Science Initiative, we’re beginning to feel confident that we have identified all of the marine-related citizen science activity in the Central Coast –...
Nov 25, 2013 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> November marks the first anniversary of the online community – and our community is the heart of OceanSpaces. In our first year, we’ve grown to 600+ members, who are broadly engaged...
