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Austin Mast
Austin Mast
amast@bio.fsu.edu
[amast@bio.fsu.edu]


Libby Ellwood
Libby Ellwood
eellwood@bio.fsu.edu
[eellwood@bio.fsu.edu]


Bruce J. MacFadden
Bruce J. MacFadden
bmacfadd@flmnh.ufl.edu
[bmacfadd@flmnh.ufl.edu]

Revision as of 15:06, 9 January 2015

Citizen science involves the public in the generation of scientific knowledge. With a ([1] new professional society) and an emerging journal, citizen science has reached a stage of explosive growth with new opportunities for citizen scientists appearing weekly. This course is open to graduate students from any discipline but might be of greatest interest to those in the sciences and education. Topics will include, but are not limited to, project typologies, best practices, project evaluation, user motivations, broadening participant diversity, and data quality. Both onsite and online engagement will be discussed.



Course Information

This course is being taught at FSU, King Life Science Building, Room 4009, Wednesday 4-5pm.

Concurrently, it is also being offered at UF, iDigBio Building 105, Room 310.

Remote participation is available via Adobe Connect.

For more information about the course, please contact:

Austin Mast [amast@bio.fsu.edu]

Libby Ellwood [eellwood@bio.fsu.edu]

Bruce J. MacFadden [bmacfadd@flmnh.ufl.edu]