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D-08: Symposium: Evidence-based principles to guide project owners in the co-management of project participants within the SciStarter ecosystem [clear filter]
Evidence-based Principles to Guide Project Owners in the Co-management of Project Participants Within the SciStarter Ecosystem Organizer: Caren Cooper Citizen Science projects do not exist in isolation, but among a rapidly growing number of project offerings. Recruiting and retaining participants, as well as undertaking scholarly studies of participation, in single projects overlooks synergies that might occur as individuals engage with multiple projects. SciStarter is the largest repository of citizen science projects in the world. Within SciStarter, information about more than 1,500 citizen science projects and characteristics of their participation, design, outcomes, and impacts are compiled and curated. Through syndicated outreach, SciStarter has recruited 50,000+ people to join its community of citizen scientists. Thanks to a NSF-AISL Pathways award, SciStarter 2.0 tools offer each member a dashboard to manage and display their citizen science activities, track their progress in projects, network with others, and consent to have their online behavior tracked across citizen science projects. SciStarter 2.0 tools help project owners to promote their projects and recruit participants from specific locations or with certain skills, as well as learn about their participants' associations with other projects. Since 2010, SciStarter has directed people towards the projects most suitable to their interests, abilities, and location. Owners of those projects, however, rarely reciprocate, that is, they generally do not encourage their volunteers to join other projects or the SciStarter community. This symposium provides initial evidence, from quantitative and qualitative research, of the benefits of clustering projects online and fostering participation in multiple projects, and offers guidance to project owners for managing volunteers within a diverse ecosystem of projects with new SciStarter 2.0 tools.
PRESENTATIONS:
Designing Participation Experiences to Engage and Retain Long-Term Volunteers Snigdha Petluru*, University of Maryland-College Park; Andrea Wiggins
Divers vs dabblers: stronger science and conservation outcome when volunteers participate in multiple, varied projects Caren Cooper*, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University and SciStarter; Lincoln Larson
Presentation matters: how teachers assess citizen science projects for classrooms Jonathan Brier*, University of Maryland-College Park; Andrea Wiggins
SciStarter 2.0 Tools: A Digital Platform to Foster and Study Sustained Engagement in Citizen Science Catherine Hoffman*, SciStarter; Co-Authors: Darlene Cavalier, Caren Cooper
Using Marketing Strategies to Examine Volunteer Recruitment and Retention in Online Citizen Science Projects Alycia Crall, SciStarter
