Center for Community & Citizen Science Blog
Project Update: 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
May 2, 2022
Teaching Citizen Science: Some Insights from the University College London
Monday, May 2, 2022
from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST
Collabinar: Citizen Science in Teacher Education
April 25, 2022
Citizen Science in Teacher Education: Increasing Rigor, Relevance, and Representation in Science Education
Monday, April 25, 2022
3:00 pm - 4:00 PM PST
Collabinar: The Role of Community and Citizen Science in California’s Marine Protected Areas
March 7, 2022
The Role of Community and Citizen Science (CCS) in California’s Marine Protected Areas
Monday, March 7, 2022
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST
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 7, 2022
Community-Based Research, Education, and Engagement with the Miridae Living Labs
Monday, February 7, 2022
11:00 AM -12:00 PM PST
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
The original blog post is available here.
Western Montana’s Rattlesnake Creek
and its many relations – human and more-than-human – are at the
heart of our ongoing research-practice partnership between
Watershed Education Network (WEN) and the UC Davis Center for
Community and Citizen Science. As part of this partnership, I was
fortunate enough to visit Missoula this past summer to collect
data that will help us document how WEN’s Stream Team and
Backcountry Stream Corps programs are fostering community impacts
in the Rattlesnake Creek watershed and beyond.
Expanding community engagement through science
Repost from the UC Davis Public Scholarship and Engagement
This post was originally posted on January 20, 2021 on the UC Davis Public Scholarship and Engagement Website.
Interdependence. That’s what fuels
effective scientific discovery, according to Professor Heidi
Ballard from the UC Davis School of
Education.
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.
Resources on CCS in Farms and Gardens
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.
Professional Learning Opportunity: Get Back Time By Forefronting Science
April 20, 2021
This workshop highlighted ways in which elementary teachers can plan for science even with limited time for student contact by forefronting science within integrated lessons. We explored the Environmental Principles and Concepts (EP&Cs) and look at ways the EP&Cs have been integrated into other content area frameworks. Participants left with a co-designed grade level resource to allow for integrated unit planning that places science at the core.
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)
USING CITIZEN SCIENCE TO SUPPORT SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING NEEDS DURING COVID-19 TO ENGAGE STUDENTS AND CAREGIVERS
Article by Peggy Harte M.ed. on Classroom Science
Using Environmental Literacy as the Through Line, All Standards All Students: A Focus on Equity and Access
Environmental Literacy, Environmental Principles & Concepts, Next Generation Science Standards, Incremental Infusion
Using Environmental Literacy as the Through Line, All Standards All Students: A Focus on Equity and Access
BY MARGARET (PEGGY) HARTE, MED|NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Environmental Literacy, Environmental Principles & Concepts, Next Generation Science Standards, Incremental Infusion
Resources for Citizen Science Project Planning
We are excited to share three resources use in developing or evolving citizen science projects. While their focus is on dam removal and watershed restoration, much of this material could be useful for a wide range of contexts and problem areas related to conservation and natural resource management.
