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.

Thursday, March 14

• What do citizen and community science mean for cooperative extension?

  • Ryan Meyer, Sabrina Drill, Heidi Ballard
  • 11:00am (Community Organizing Collaborations; RCC 304)
  • view presentation slides
• Bridging the research-practice gap: Highlights and lessons learned from integrating citizen science practice and educational research
  • Lucy Robinson, Heidi Ballard, Rebecca Johnson, Alison Young, Lila Higgins, Christothea Herodotou, Julia Lorke, Annie Miller, Sasha Pratt-Taweh, Jessie Jennewein, Maria Aristeidou, Harpreet Sanghera, Grant Miller, Greg Pauly
  • 1:45pm (Engagement, participation, and research; RCC 402)
• Through a different lens: Studying youth participation as practitioner researchers in LEARN CitSci
  • Annie Miller, Jessie Jennewein, Sasha Pratt-Taweh, Heidi Ballard, Lucy Robinson, Julia Lorke, Lila Higgins, Rebecca Johnson, Alison Young, Maria Aristeidou, Christothea Herodotou, Grant Miller, Harpreet Sanghera
  • 4:45pm (Poster Session; Ballroom)
• Learning from the birds: Elementary students’ use of their bird monitoring research to reimagine ecological systems on their school campus.
  • Erin Bird, Peggy Harte
  • 4:45pm (Poster Session; Ballroom)
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• How can citizen and community science support the goals of a sustained National Climate Assessment?
  • Ryan Meyer, Raj Pandya, Kerrie Geil, Rebecca Kreutter, Richard Moss
  • 4:45pm (Poster Session; Ballroom)
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Friday, March 15

• Citizen science and beyond: moving youth to scientific inquiry and civic action through citizen science

  • Andrea Lorek Strauss, Heidi Ballard, Jennifer Fee, Laura Herszenhorn, Meggie Harvey, Christine Voyer
  • 11:00am (Symp-193; RCC 402)
• Citizen Science and the University: Institutional innovation, change, and engagement beyond the ivory tower
  • Ryan Meyer, Heidi Ballard, Rob Blair, Ira Bennett, Caren Cooper, Colleen Hitchcock, Julia Parrish
  • 3:45pm (Sym-184; RCC 303)
  • view presentation slides
  • discussion notes

Saturday, March 16

• Characterizing Youth Participation in Natural History Museum-led Citizen Science: Online and in the Field

  • Christothea Herodotou, Heidi Ballard, Julia Lorke, Maria Aristeidou, Lucy Robinson, Rebecca Johnson, Alison Young, Lila Higgins, Jessie Jennewein, Annie Miller, Sasha Pratt-Taweh, Harpreet Sanghera, Grant Miller, Greg Pauly
  • 10:30am (Youth Education; RCC 402)    
• Examining two cases of Public Lab community science: Process and outcomes of using science for civic engagement
  • Margaret Pannkuk, Heidi Ballard, Liz Barry, Gretchen Gehrke, Shannon Dosemagen
  • 1:30pm (Inclusion [Environmental Justice]; RCC 304)
• From Data Collection to Data Production: Two studies and a set of questions
  • Colin Dixon, Emily Harris, Lisa Hardy, Heidi Ballard, Erin Bird
  • 2:30pm (Data Quality and Challenges; RCC 302C)
• eeWorks: Investigating and synthesizing the research evidence supporting citizen science for environmental education
  • Christopher Jadallah, Amanda Lindell, Erin Bird,and Heidi Ballard
  • 3:15pm (Data and Tools; RCC 304)
  • lightning talk presentation
  • view poster
• Navigating between Academic Collaborations and Community-Based Research Partnerships: The Knights Landing Environmental Health Project (2016-)
  • Alfonso Aranda, Skye Kelty
  • 3:15pm (Community Organizing and EJ, RCC 303)