CCS Fellowship
Cultivating Youth and Community Resiliency: A Community Science Approach to Land Stewardship for Wildfire Mitigation in Maui, Hawaiʻi
Highlighting our Community and Citizen Science in Conservation Fellows
Project Overview
In August of last year, I submitted
a proposal to the Citizen Science in Conservation Fellowship
program. This collaborative project is titled “Cultivating Youth
and Community Resiliency: A Community Science Approach to Land
Stewardship for Wildfire Mitigation in Maui, Hawaiʻi”. Through
this project, we seek to address a global environmental and
social issue -wildfire- through a place-based, culturally
responsive, and culturally sustaining, curriculum.
Partners and Supporters
Learning about coyotes in San Francisco from their scat
Read about research from Citizen Science in Conservation Fellow, Tali Caspi.
In recent decades, humans and
animals have increasingly co-occurred in high densities in urban
areas. Although declines in biodiversity are associated with
urbanization, numerous species have adjusted to and thrive in
cities. The success of urban animals is largely attributed to the
expansion of their diet to include human-provided food, resulting
in frequent conflicts with people.
#iluvbugs City Nature Challenge BioBlitz
Saturday, April 27, 2024
8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
UCD Arboretum Wyatt Deck
Register here
FREE Workshop: Using Community Science Apps to Study and Support Nature Near You
February 24, 2024
Conservation in Your Pocket: Using
Community Science Apps to Study and Support Nature Near You
Saturday, February 24, 2024
10:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Effie Yeaw Nature Center
Register here
Learn how to use apps to support Citizen Science in Conservation Fellow, Sage Madden, and UC Davis graduate students studying a local songbird!
Meet Our 2023 CCSIC Fellows
Congratulations to the 2023
Community and Citizen Science in Conservation Fellows! We are
excited about the projects these early career scientists are
pursuing. Each one demonstrates creativity and innovation in
community and citizen science. Learn more about the CCSiC
Fellowship program here, and stay tuned for
more updates from our fellows over the course of the next year.
Community and Citizen Science in Conservation Course
The Center for Community and Citizen
Science offers a 2-unit ”Community and Citizen Science
in Conservation” course at UC Davis. The course involves
weekly discussion and exploration of community and citizen
science (CCS) approaches and applications broadly related to
conservation. With an emphasis on recent academic literature,
each session focuses on a different topic such as
equity and justice, project design and implementation, and
participant and conservation benefits. Other topics are
identified and explored based on student interest. This course
allows students to develop ideas for CCS projects within
their own research.
Students who complete the course
are eligible to apply for the CCS in Conservation
Fellowship, offered annually by the UC Davis Center for
Community and Citizen Science.
If you have any questions, please contact Ryan Meyer, rmmeyer@ucdavis.edu, or Todd Harwell, taharwell@ucdavis.edu.