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Embrace the Bureaucracy: Navigating Institutional Barriers to Citizen Science Organizer: Lea Shanley - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This symposium explores the challenges to implementing citizen science across U.S. federal agencies and the bureaucracies and operating cultures they contain. The panelists will discuss how they have worked together and independently to address hurdles. In doing so, they will reveal how these organizations have evolved in their thinking about public participation in their activities. Moreover, this session provides a special case study of citizen science in large institutions and will offer potential strategies and solutions that may be useful to citizen science advocates seeking to implement citizen science projects in other organizations.
PRESENTATIONS:
Citizen Science at the US Environmental Protection Agency Alison Parker*, ORISE fellow hosted by the US Environmental Protection Agency; Barbara Martinez*, Conservation X Labs Citizen science in a world full of data Ethan McMahon, US EPA, Office of Environmental Information How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Citizen Science: Overcoming Institutional Barriers and Growing a Federal Community Lea Shanley, South Big Data Innovation Hub, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil Implementing citizen science projects within US Geological Survey: opportunities and challenges Jake Weltzin, USA National Phenology Network and US Geological Survey NASA's Public Participation Universe: Democratizing Innovation at the U.S. Civil Space Agency Amy Kaminski, NASA The Importance of Design in Open Innovation Efforts Sophia Liu, US Geological Survey
