When: March 18, 4:00 - 5:00 pm EST
Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/citizenscience-fsu
Speaker: Greg Newman Director, CitSci.org; Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
Title: "Supporting field-based citizen science: The CitSci.org cyberinfrastructure"
Citizen science involves the public in the generation of scientific knowledge. With a new professional society (http://citizenscienceassociation.org/) and an emerging journal, citizen science has reached a stage of explosive growth with new opportunities for citizen scientists appearing weekly.
Imaging Blitz participants photograph specimens.
FSU's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium is pleased to announce a crowdfunding campaign running from December 1–15 to raise $2000 to provision six 1-day citizen science events in 2015.
iDigBio and the Florida Museum of Natural History co-sponsored a half-day introductory workshop to the website/application iNaturalist on Friday, September 26, 2014, at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
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FLMNH and iDigBio are hosting an iNaturalist half-day workshop Friday, September 26th, in the McGuire Conference Room.
Libby Ellwood will present an overview of the field of public participation in the digitization of biodiversity specimens at the Botany 2014 meeting in Boise, Idaho. Libby's talk is 9:15-9:30 in room Payette at the Boise Center.
Austin Mast will present on iDigBio's prototype system for managing public participation in digitization of biodiversity specimens at Botany 2014 in Boise, Idaho. It will occur from 8:45-9 a.m. in room Payette in the Boise Center.
UPDATE: See CitStitch Hackathon Wiki
The CITSCribe Hackathon, co-organized by Zooniverse's Notes from Nature Project and iDigBio brought together over 30 programmers and researchers from the areas of biodiversity research and digital humanities for a week to further enable public participation in the transcription of biodiversity specimen labels.
Public engagement in scientific research (sometimes referred to as citizen science) is not new, but new web resources (e.g., from the Zooniverse, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and USA National Phenology Network suites of projects) provide scientists with opportunities to engage the public in ways and at scales not previously possible. At the same time, the public is increasingly provided with opportunities to
