Citizen Science : : Public Participation in Environmental Research / / ed. by Richard E. Bonney, Janis L. Dickinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alaback, Paul,; Bonney, Rick,; Bonter, David N.,; Brooks, Wesley R.,; Chu, Miyoko,; Cooper, Caren B.,; Dhondt, André A.,; Dickinson, Janis L.,; Ehrenfeld, Joan G.,; Fink, Daniel,; Fitzpatrick, John W.,; Garibay, Cecilia,; Gray, Steven A.,; Greenwood, Jeremy J.D.,; Hames, Ralph S.,; Havens, Kayri,; Henderson, Sandra,; Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E.,; Hochachka, Wesley M.,; Howe, David V.,; Jordan, Rebecca C.,; Kelling, Steve,; Knuth, Barbara A.,; Krasny, Marianne E.,; Lekies, Kristi S.,; Leonard, Patricia,; Louv, Richard,; Lowe, James D.,; Marra, Peter P.,; Mcgarigal, Kevin,; Meymaris, Kirsten K.,; Oberhauser, Karen S.,; Phillips, Tina,; Purcell, Karen,; Reitsma, Robert,; Rosenberg, Kenneth V.,; Shirk, Jennifer L.,; Stevenson, Flisa,; Tidball, Keith G.,; Trautmann, Nancy M.,; Triezenberg, Heather A.,; Ward, Dennis L.,; Wells, Nancy M.,; Yuan, Y. Connie,; Zuckerberg, Benjamin,
• HerausgeberIn: Bonney, Richard E.,; Dickinson, Janis L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 5 halftones, 1 line figure, 6 tables, 28 charts/graphs

Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the first budding leaf in spring, or measuring local snowfall. The large numbers of volunteers who participate in projects such as Project FeederWatch or Proj...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Why Citizen Science?
• Part I. The Practice of Citizen Science
• 1. Overview of Citizen Science
• 2. Projects and Possibilities: Lessons from Citizen Science Projects
• From Backyard Observations to Continent-Wide Trends: Lessons from the First Twenty-Two Years of Project Feederwatch
• Monitoring Monarchs: Citizen Science and a Charismatic Insect
• Neighborhood Nestwatch: Mentoring Citizens in the Urban Matrix
• Project BudBurst: Citizen Science for All Seasons
• Using Bioinformatics in Citizen Science
• 4. Growing the Base for Citizen Science: Recruiting and Engaging Participants
• 5. What Is Our Impact?: Toward a Unified Framework for Evaluating Outcomes of Citizen Science Participation
• Part II. Impacts of Citizen Science on Conservation Research
• 6. The Opportunities and Challenges of Citizen Science as a Tool for Ecological Research
• 7. Widening the Circle of Investigation: The Interface between Citizen Science and Landscape Ecology
• 8. Using Data Mining to Discover Biological Patterns in Citizen Science Observations
• 9. Developing a Conservation Research Program with Citizen Science
• 10. Citizens, Science, and Environmental Policy: A British Perspective
• Part III. Educational, Social, and Behavioral Aspects of Citizen Science
• 11. Cognitive Considerations in the Development of Citizen Science Projects
• 12. Who Poses the Question? Using Citizen Science to Help K–12 Teachers Meet the Mandate for Inquiry
• 13. A Gateway to Science for All: Celebrate Urban Birds
• 14. Children and Nature: Following the Trail to Environmental Attitudes and Behavior
• 15. Internet-Based Social Networking and Collective Action Models of Citizen Science: Theory Meets Possibility
• 16. A Role for Citizen Science in Disaster and Conflict Recovery and Resilience
• Afterword
• Literature Cited
• Index