Resources for PPSR in Northern California
Thanks to the Northern California PPSR Regional Workshop participants for many of the documents and links below. Please let us know if you have others we should have here.
- Article: Conference on Public Participation in Scientific Research 2012: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference – the first national PPSR Conference in Portland, OR in August 2012
- Data Management Guide for Public Participation in Scientific Research (pdf), DataONE PPSR Working Group, February 2013
- Slides: Long-term, Single-Site, Charismatic Bird Species Monitoring with Stable Staffing in an Environmentally Liberal Region (pdf) – Volunteers and the GGRO,Allen Fish, GGRO
- Slides: West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project Overview (pdf), Margaret Gordon, WOEIP
- Handout: Thinking about potential and measured outcomes of PPSR in your region (doc), Joe Heimlich, Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State University
- Book: Taking Science to School (follow the link for free PDF download)
- Resources: Open Air Laboratories (OPAL), their Community Environment Report, and other resources “from classroom activities to advice on running your own BioBlitz”
- Report: Proceedings from the California Biodiversity Citizen Science Meetings (pdf), California Academy of Sciences
- Organization: Foundation for Youth Investment – Outdoor Youth Providers Database, which helps connect outdoor educators, including the Native American Network, to one another, and Native American Youth Best Practices initiative, “helping to build program capacity, identify best practices, and promote sharing of information to sustain culturally-relevant outdoor programs for Native youth.”
- Book: Practical Computing for Biologists – dealing with large data sets
- Organization: CA Regional Environmental Education Community (CREEC) – resources and regional partners, helping “to link all educators to Environmental Education activities and resources throughout California.”
- Teaching Resources: Lessons of Our California Land (LOCL), A Native American Land Curriculum for California Schools – Teacher Background, Maps, Videos, Links & Worksheets
- Paper: Intertribal Timber Council survey of tribal research needs, Chris Beatty & Adrian Leighton (permission required to download)
- Resource: Google Fusion Tables
- Resource: Google Refine
