Center for Community & Citizen Science Blog
New Report: Evaluating Knowledge to Support Climate Action
Governments and communities around
the world are working to reduce their carbon footprints and
mitigate the effects of climate change, but in some communities,
climate action plans are stalling. A new report, “Evaluating
Knowledge to Support Climate Action,” prepared by the
Independent Advisory Committee for Applied Climate Assessment
(IAC) with contributions from our Executive Director, Ryan Meyer,
examines what it would take to develop a dynamic assessment
process that helps affected jurisdictions, communities, and
organizations establish pathways for climate action. Its
recommendations are an important input to ongoing climate
assessment and research in the federal government and elsewhere.
CitSci 2019: Where to Find Us
We’re looking forward to the upcoming Citizen Science Association (CSA) conference, right around the corner! Come catch up with us and our work at the events listed below. We are also excited to host a youth-focused community and citizen science happy hour alongside the Education Working Group on Thursday March 14th, from 6:00-8:00PM. It will be an informal evening of networking and discussing the involvement of young people in citizen and community science. See the image below for more information, and RSVP here.
City Nature Challenge Comes to Sacramento Region
For the first time ever, the Sacramento Region will be participating in the City Nature Challenge. We will be competing with more than 160 cities all over the world to see who can catalogue the most nature in just 4 days! We think that joining this global effort to discover local biodiversity through citizen science is a great opportunity for the Center, and for the region.
New Publication
Engagement in science through citizen science: Moving beyond data collection.
We are excited to share a new
publication in Science Education entitled
“Engagement in science through citizen science: Moving beyond
data collection.” This article was written by Tina B.
Phillips, Bruce V. Lewenstein, Rick Bonney, and our faculty
director Heidi Ballard.
Sara Ludwick Presents Award-winning Poster at AGU
Congratulations to Sara Ludwick,
whose poster at the AGU fall meeting entitled
“Achieving Education Goals with Climate-related Community and
Citizen Science,” received an Outstanding Student
Presentation Award! Read on for Sara’s reflections on the
experience.
New White Paper:
Science Identity and Agency in Community and Citizen Science: Evidence & Potential
The National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering and Medicine has released a new report that takes a
deep dive into research on learning through citizen science.
Beyond the many challenges and recommendations it details, the
report is a strong affirmation that citizen science can support
both science learning and research goals. We’re proud that our
work has informed this effort, including an Academy-commissioned
white paper and keynote talk by Faculty Director Heidi Ballard,
and Center Alums Emily Harris and Colin Dixon.
New Comment in Nature Sustainability: To co-produce or not to co-produce
“To co-produce or not to co-produce”, a Comment in Nature Sustainability, was recently published. Ryan Meyer, our Center’s Executive Director, contributed as part of the “Science of Useful Science” working group of the Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC).
Welcome Maryam Ghadiri!
The Center for Community and
Citizen Science is excited to welcome Maryam Ghadiri as the new
postdoctoral fellow on the LEARN CitSci project. Maryam was
recently the director of education and research at the Environmental Learning Center
(ELC), a non-profit organization in Vero Beach, Florida. She
worked with educators and ecologists to design, implement and
evaluate different environmental education and outreach
programs.
CITY NATURE CHALLENGE
April 26th 2019- April 29th 2019
The City Nature Challenge began as a nature-observation competition between the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County in 2016, organized around simple charge: “which city can find the most nature?” Since then, the competition has expanded rapidly, and this year more than 120 cities will participate worldwide!
Sharing Community & Citizen Science with Local Educators
Submitted by jmmetes on Mon, 04/24/2017 – 10:44pm
A morning of Teen Nat – Conservation Science, but so much more
By Sandi Funke, Education Director, Pepperwood Preserve
New Book Chapter in Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy
Our Faculty director, Heidi Ballard, has co-authored a chapter “Conservation outcomes of citizen science” with Tina Phillips and Lucy Robinson in ”
2 year Anniversary of the Knights Landing Environmental Health Project
By Skye Kelty and Alfonso Aranda
Skye Kelty and Alfonso Aranda are graduate students at UC Davis, and Campus Affiliates of the Center for Community and Citizen Science. In this post they describe their multi-year collaboration with community members in Knights Landing, a wonderful example of student-led community science that has crossed many disciplinary and institutional boundaries.
