Center for Community & Citizen Science Blog
New Publication: Examining youth participation in ongoing community and citizen science programs in 3 different out-of-school settings
Maryam Ghadiri Khanaposhtani, a postdoctoral scholar, and Heidi Ballard, founder and faculty director of the Center, recently published Examining youth participation in ongoing community and citizen science programs in 3 different out-of-school settings, a research paper investigating youth participation in three Community and Citizen Science (CCS) programs led by natural history museums and influential setting features.
Job Opening: Student Assistant
Student Assistant
POSITION OVERVIEW
The UC Davis Center for Community and Citizen Science (CCCS) is hiring three student interns for the UC Davis Summer Session. Each position (described below) has the potential to extend through the 2022-2023 academic year.
Center for Community and Citizen Science supports expanded efforts in participatory monitoring of the Elwha River dam removal
On April 18-19th, 2022, researchers from the Center joined the scientific community working on the Elwha River in Washington State to think through the potential for growing public participation in future monitoring of the largest dam removal project in the world.
New Publication and Webinar Series: Teacher Call to Action for Environmental Literacy
As educators and researchers, the Center for Community and Citizen Science is focused on joining young people in the work of learning, doing, and using science to improve the world we share. This means thinking about young people as community leaders and people who do science. We have been working to support educators and educational leaders at both the district and state levels to better understand ways in which citizen science and environmental literacy more broadly can be used to deepen both student learning and development of environmental science agency.
Collabinar: Teaching Citizen Science-Some Insights from the University College London
Teaching Citizen Science: Some Insights from the University College London
Monday, May 2
from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Job Opening: Our Forests Postdoc
Postdoctoral Scholar: Youth Community Action and Science in Our Forests
Position Overview
The Center for Community and Citizen Science (CCCS) seeks an accomplished science education researcher to join a collaborative team working on a large-scale National Science Foundation DRK12-funded research and development project.
Collabinar: Citizen Science in Teacher Education
April 25th, 3pm-4pm PST
Citizen Science in Teacher Education: Increasing Rigor, Relevance, and Representation in Science Education
Monday, April 25
from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST
Collabinar: The Role of Community and Citizen Science in California’s Marine Protected Areas
March 7th, 11am-12pm PST
Check out below to see the details of our Collabinar event
The Role of Community and Citizen Science (CCS) in California’s Marine Protected Areas
Monday, March 7th
from 11:00am-12:00pm PST
Recording available
here
New reports on Community and Citizen Science in California’s Marine Protected Areas
The Center’s analyses will inform the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Decadal Management Review of MPAs
Since Spring 2021, two project teams at the UC Davis Center for Community and Citizen Science have been collecting and analyzing data related to the contributions of community and citizen science participants in coastal monitoring activities within and surrounding marine protected areas (MPAs) throughout the State of California.
Collabinar: Community-Based Research, Education, and Engagement with the Miridae Living Labs
February 7th, 11am-12pm PST
Check out below to see the details of our first Collabinar event of 2022!
Community-Based Research, Education, and Engagement with the Miridae Living Labs
Monday, February 7th
from 11:00am-12:00pm PST
Recording available
here
Social learning in conservation and natural resource management: taking a sociocultural perspective
This post introduces a recently published paper authored by Christopher Jadallah and Heidi Ballard. You can access the full paper, published on Ecology and Society, here.
Engaging College Opportunity Programs, Researchers and Students through Citizen Science: Reimagining Possibilities of STEM and CTE
In January of 2020, the UC Davis Center for Community and Citizen Science (CCCS) began a new research practice partnership exploring STEM opportunities and developing teacher professional development with the college opportunity program GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs), serving students across Glenn, Colusa, and Tehama counties.
Chris In The Creek: Community-Based Monitoring with the Watershed Education Network
Originally posted in the Watershed Education Network
This post was originally posted on September 28, 2021 on the Watershed Education Network.
Link to the original post: https://www.montanawatershed.org/blog1
Chris Jadallah is a PhD candidate in Science and Agricultural Education at the University of California, Davis where he works with the Center for Community and Citizen Science.
Expanding community engagement through science
Originally posted in UC Davis Public Scholarship and Engagement
This post was originally posted on January 20, 2021 on the UC Davis Public Scholarship and Engagement Website.
Link to original post: publicengagement.ucdavis.edu/stories/heidi-ballard
An Overview of the City Nature Challenge
Alexandria Tillett Miller
What is the City Nature Challenge?
The City Nature Challenge is a collaborative international bioblitz that started in 2016 as a competition between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The objective for the challenge is to motivate people in their surrounding area to get outside and document wildlife and general biodiversity. In 2017, the City Nature Challenge went national, and one year later, became a world-wide event.
Invasive Tamarisk Removal: A youth-led project
Mireya Bejarano
This post was authored by Mireya Bejarano, an undergraduate student studying Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at the University of California, Davis. She has been working with the Center for Community and Citizen Science as a research assistant since 2020. She is interested in the positive impacts that citizen science and conservation can have on each other when combined. She plans to pursue a career in conservation post graduation. Her favorite bird native to California is the Loggerhead Shrike.
Special Issue on CCS in Cooperative Extension
We’re proud to announce a new special issue of California Agriculture exploring the many ways that community and citizen science (CCS) are playing a role in cooperative extension. Ryan Meyer, Sabrina Drill, and Chris Jadallah served as guest editors of this collection, which spans a wide range of topics while illustrating the many different ways that CCS is used by extension professionals to advance their work.
How to teach an experiential field course online
This post was developed by Laci Gerhart-Barley, Christopher Jadallah, Sarah Angulo, and Greg Ira, who have recently published a paper about their work adapting an experiential field course (with significant citizen science components) to an online setting during Covid-19. You can access the paper, published in Ecology and Evolution, here
Birds Near and Far – Students investigate local environmental phenomena on campus and at a local pond
Article by: Erin Bridges Bird, Peggy Harte, and Heidi L. Ballard (Originally Posted on NSTA)
Original Article on NSTA: https://www.nsta.org/science-and-children/science-and-children-septemberoctober-2020/birds-near-and-far
Science and Children—September/October 2020 (Volume 58, Issue 1)
