Presentations
Presentations from the Citizen Science Toolkit Conference held in Ithaca, NY, June 20th-23rd, 2007.
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Talks are listed in the order in which they were
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Many thanks to Cathy McEver, Bureau of Common Sense, for conference documentation and proceedings design/construction!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover Documentation: Contents and Attendees 
Introduction and Overview: Conference Background
Session I: Citizen Science Challenges and Opportunities 
Session II: Citizen Science Project Design
Session III: Technology and Cyberinfrastructure
Panel Discussion: Impact of Citizen Science
Session IV: Community Building for Citizen Science
Concluding Remarks: Reports and Closing Comments
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Introduction and Overview(Fitzpatrick, Dickinson , and Bonney ) |
Session I: Citizen Science Challenges and Opportunities
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Just Because You Paid Them Doesn't Meant Their Data Are Better (Droege) |
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NestWatch: InterSECTion of Science, Education, Conservation, and Technology (Phillips) |
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Biodiversity Inventories and Beyond: Bringing Scientists and Communities Together (Prysby) |
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Citizen Science as a Catalyst in Bridging the Gap between Science And Decision-makers (Vaughan) |
Session II: Citizen Science Project Design
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Evaluating citizen science (Ellenbogen) |
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The Monarch Larva Monitoring Project: Merging Educational and Scientific Goals (Oberhauser) |
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Models of Community Science: design lessons from the field (Wilderman) |
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Yeah, but......are the data any good? (Henderson) |
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(Storksdieck) |
Session III: Technology and Cyberinfrastructure
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When pigs can really fly, we'll build a tool to count them (Kelling) |
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Vital Signs open source data input tools (Kirn) |
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Mashups for Michigan Heritage Watertrails (Lemberg) |
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Information Commons/ innovating online data mining (Knauer) |
Panel Discussion: Impact of Citizen Science
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From Citizen Science to policy and planning – examples from the United Kingdom (Baillie) |
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Thoughts and Discussion |
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(Rosenberg, Pattengill-Semmins, Murray, and Morten) |
Session IV: Community Building for Citizen Science
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Engaging, enhancing, and expanding community-based monitoring programs (Green) |
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Engaging Cooperative Extension Volunteers in Citizen Science (Bushway) |
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Astronomy for Citizen Scientists and Citizen Science Educators (Gurton) |
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Audubon's Christmas Bird Count: From 19th Century Conservation Action to 21st Century Citizen Science (LeBaron) |
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Concluding Remarks
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The amazing work of documenting the conference, transcribing talks, and designing, editing, and compiling the proceedings was done by:
Cathy McEver, Bureau of Common Sense.
Suggested citation:
McEver, C., Bonney, R., Dickinson, J., Kelling, S., Rosenberg, K., and Shirk, J. (Editors). 2007. Proceedings of the Citizen Science Toolkit Conference. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, June 20-23, 2007.