Welcome to the interactive web schedule for CitSci2017! For tips on how to navigate this site, visit the "Helpful Info" section. To return to the main Citizen Science Association website, go to: http://citizenscience.org/association/conferences/citsci2017/. All events will be held at the St. Paul RiverCentre unless otherwise noted. PLEASE NOTE: Adding agenda items to your schedule through this app does not sign you up for a session. If an agenda item says "pre-registration required" or charges an additional fee, you need to add the item to your registration through the online registration system (https://citizenscience.member365.com/ then select "manage event registrations"), or stop by the registration desk onsite.
Advancing Our Global Understanding of Citizen Science Engagement Through Cross Programmatic Research Organizer: Tina Phillips While there has been a surge in interdisciplinary research attempting to measure outcomes from citizen science, most studies rely on examinations of single projects, making it difficult to measure impacts across the field (Bonney et al. 2015, Phillips et al. 2012). In this session sponsored by the Research and Evaluation Working Group, we present four talks from across the globe, each describing cross programmatic research undertaken with at least two or more projects. The symposium will present research that describes individual engagement factors and patterns in both online and field-based citizen science projects. Each presentation will highlight research questions and constructs being examined across multiple projects, the various methods that can be employed to conduct this type of research, and the challenges and lessons learned when undertaking cross programmatic research. Findings from the presentations will advance our understanding of how people engage in different contexts, how learning might support recruitment and sustained participation, motivation for participating in citizen science, and factors that inhibit or enable participation. Synthesizing results across multiple projects also will provide insights for practitioners that can inform best practices for project design. Collectively, this information will further advance our understanding of impacts across the field of citizen science. We intend to present findings from the symposium in a CSA-sponsored blog.
PRESENTATIONS:
Environmental identity and citizen science Nina James, University of South Australia
How Can We Maximize Learning in Citizen Science? A Mixed-Methods Study Examining the Influence of Different Project Activities on Learning Outcomes Tina Phillips, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University
Short and Long-Term Engagement Among Volunteers in Human Computation Projects Lesandro Ponciano, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Why is education important for Citizen Science? Learning as a factor supporting long-term participation in Online Citizen Science Projects. Laure Kloetzer, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Exploring the Goals and Motivations of Citizen Scientists in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Suzanne Spitzer* - University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Caroline Donovan - University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; William Dennison - University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Instant-gratification Citizen Science Luigi Ceccaroni* - 1000001 Labs; Anne Bowser - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Jaume Piera - ICM-CSIC
Quantitative Predictors of Participant Retention: Survival Analysis of the CoCoRaHS Dataset S. Andrew Sheppard - University of Minnesota
Exploring a Continuum of Involvement in a Citizen Science Program Maria Sharova* - Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC); Alison Cawood - Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
The Process of Citizen Science. Lessons on Evaluating and Refining Citizen Science Projects Megan Mueller* - Rocky Mountain Wild; Erica Garroutte - Denver Zoological Foundation; Heather Batts - Denver Zoological Foundation
Understanding Participants: Research on Participant Motivation and How to Use It in Practice Anne Land-Zandstra* - Leiden University; Marjolein de Vries
Collaborative Modeling of Long-term Community-based Research Data in Rural Zimbabwe M Eitzel - University of California, Santa Cruz; Emmanuel Mhike Hove - The Muonde Trust; Abraham Changarara - The Muonde Trust; Daniel Ndlovu - The Muonde Trust; Jon Solera - Seven Points Consulting; Alice Ndlovu - The Muonde Trust; Kleber Neves - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Andre Veski - Tallinn University of Technology
Citizen Data Scientists - Combining Human and Machine Processing Frank Ostermann* - ITC, University of Twente; Menno-Jan Kraak - ITC - University of Twente; Raul Zurita-Milla - ITC - University of Twente
Foldit: Lessons, Discoveries, and Opportunities from 8 Years of Citizen Science in Computational Biochemistry Seth Cooper - Northeastern University
Role of Human-computer Interaction (HCI) in Advancing Citizen Science Tracy Lee* - Miistakis Institute; Danah Duke - Miistakis Institute; Brian Traynor - Faculty of Communication Studies, Mount Royal University
Design to Implementation: Creating an Effective Volunteer Monitoring Database Holden Sparacino - Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM)
How Do We Figure out What Works for Youth in Citizen Science?: Bridging Research and Practice to Collaboratively Develop Priority Education Research Questions for Youth-focused Citizen Science Organizer: Heidi Ballard Citizen science offers tantalizing opportunity for young people to learn and grow through action taken to address and answer pressing and relevant research questions. Potential outcomes for youth are numerous, including content knowledge, science skills, understanding of the nature of science, and increased science confidence. But in which contexts are which outcomes most likely for which youth? And how can we learn more about what works and for whom, and under which conditions? In this 2-part research and practice symposium, co-hosted by the Education and Research & Evaluation Working Groups, we will address these questions through 1) examples from the field and 2) facilitated group discussions. We begin with a panel of researchers focused on different aspects of youth learning in diverse settings (i.e. Ballard et al. 2016, Fee and Trautmann 2013). Each will share their research questions, methods, key theories, preliminary findings, and how program design or practice might incorporate research lessons . In the last quarter of the session, presenters and attendees will sort themselves into groups around topics of interest (e.g., specific outcome areas, role of adult mentors and professional scientists, student voice and choice) to generate lists of research questions and methods that would advance the practices of citizen science with youth. Each group will be asked to record their thinking and prioritize their questions according to feasibility and potential impact to the field. Following the conference, symposium organizers will summarize the work of the groups and share via a guest post to the CSA blog.
PRESENTATIONS:
Evaluating science identity in youth using BirdSleuth's Habitat Connections curriculum in afterschool and informal education settings Jennifer Fee, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
How can we improve learning about biodiversity and the environment through student engagement in short-duration citizen science events? Lessons from 2016 BioBlitzes Ardice Hartry, University of California, Berkeley
Learning from youth-focused community and citizen science (CCS): how do we know the impacts of participation on youth understanding and agency toward environmental science? Heidi Ballard, University of California, Davis
Stepping up: the roles youth play in citizen science projects and their relationship to place Colin Dixon, School of Education, University of California - Davis
Taking on the Challenges of Broadening Participation in Data Visualization and Analysis with FieldScope Daniel Edelson - BSCS
Patterns of Behaviour Across Online Citizen Science Chris Lintott* - Zooniverse.org; Helen Spiers - University of Oxford; Grant Miller - University of Oxford / Zooniverse; Lucy Fortson - University of Minnesota; Laura Trouille - Adler Planetarium
Validated Dynamic Consensus Approach for Citizen Science Projects Employing Crowd-based Detection Tasks Pietro Michelucci - Human Computation Institute
Working Together: Developers and Project Leads Robert Pastel - Michigan Technological University
How Do We Figure out What Works for Youth in Citizen Science?: Bridging Research and Practice to Collaboratively Develop Priority Education Research Questions for Youth-focused Citizen Science Organizer: Sarah Kirn Citizen science offers tantalizing opportunity for young people to learn and grow through action taken to address and answer pressing and relevant research questions. Potential outcomes for youth are numerous, including content knowledge, science skills, understanding of the nature of science, and increased science confidence. But in which contexts are which outcomes most likely for which youth? And how can we learn more about what works and for whom, and under which conditions? In this 2-part research and practice symposium, co-hosted by the Education and Research & Evaluation Working Groups, we will address these questions through 1) examples from the field and 2) facilitated group discussions. We begin with a panel of researchers focused on different aspects of youth learning in diverse settings (i.e. Ballard et al. 2016, Fee and Trautmann 2013). Each will share their research questions, methods, key theories, preliminary findings, and how program design or practice might incorporate research lessons . In the last quarter of the session, presenters and attendees will sort themselves into groups around topics of interest (e.g., specific outcome areas, role of adult mentors and professional scientists, student voice and choice) to generate lists of research questions and methods that would advance the practices of citizen science with youth. Each group will be asked to record their thinking and prioritize their questions according to feasibility and potential impact to the field. Following the conference, symposium organizers will summarize the work of the groups and share via a guest post to the CSA blog.
PRESENTATIONS:
Authentic science learning, focus on place, and changes in underserved students' views about science and its role in their future. Bill Zoellick, Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park
Unpacking assumptions about what matters to teachers and students in citizen science Emily Harris, University of California, Davis
