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A North American survey of the abundance and distribution of birds that visit feeders in winter.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Emma Greig Bird Studies Canada
resource project Public Programs
This new 'citizen science' project is a cooperation between Audubon California, The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and PRBO Conservation Science. The goal is to determine how important California's Central Valley is for wintering Long-billed Curlews.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles PRBO Conservation Science Audubon California Melissa Pitkin
resource project Public Programs
Puget Sound Seabird Survey (PSSS) is a citizen-science survey organized by Seattle Audubon since the fall of 2007. PSSS empowers volunteer birdwatchers to gather valuable data on wintering seabird populations in Puget Sound. Over sixty sites are surveyed in central and south Puget Sound (Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish, and Thurston counties). All survey sites are visited within the same four-hour window on the first Saturday of each month (Oct-Apr), thus taking a synchronized "snapshot" of seabird densities on nearly 5 square miles of near-shore salt water (that's 2,200 football fields!). It is the only land-based, multi-month survey in central or south Puget Sound and it's 100% citizen science!
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TEAM MEMBERS: Adam Sedgley Tahoma Audubon Society
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the April 2011 workshop, Engaging and Learning for Conservation. It describes the 10-year strategy UK National Museum of Natural History for engaging visitors in citizen science.
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TEAM MEMBERS: John Tweddle
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This PDF includes a synthesis of presentations and discussions that took place at the Engaging and Learning for Conservation Workshop on Public Participation in Scientific Research, held at the American Museum of Natural History on April 7 & 8, 2011. Working in design studio mode, participants break into small groups to focus on areas of interest and issues of concern that lend themselves to a PPSR approach. In the process of designing potential PPSR projects to address these topics, the goal is to keep conservation at the forefront, to apply and test the steps generated during the previous
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TEAM MEMBERS: American Museum of Natural History
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the April 2011 workshop, Engaging and Learning for Conservation. It describes a citizen science project at the Seattle Aquarium and outlines the essential elements of a successful citizen science program.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Karen Matsumoto Mark Plunkett
resource project Public Programs
Washington NatureMapping links natural resource agencies with citizens and schools through biodivesity data collection and analyses. NatMappers report observations of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, nearshore marine, aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates either using Naturetracker data collection software on Pocket PC's or spreadsheets. NatMappers can report observations as individuals or working on field research projects through certified NatureMapping Centers. These data are used for statewide and local land planning and for communities to learn what in their own backyards.
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TEAM MEMBERS: University of Washington Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Pacific Education Institute Kevin Dvornich
resource project Public Programs
The Raptor Population Index Project (RPI) uses migration counts collected by citizen scientists and professional biologists to monitor population trends of vultures, hawks, falcons, and other birds of prey. RPI generates indices of annual abundance, generates status assessments, and makes information available to the general public, wildlife conservation agencies, and the scientific community.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Ernesto Inzunza Hawk Watch International Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Bird Studies Canada
resource research Media and Technology
This is the opening talk of the session titled "Technology and Cyberinfrastructure," delivered on day two of the Citizen Science Toolkit Conference at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York on June 20-23, 2007. Steve Kelling, Director of Information Science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, discuss hows advances in technology impact citizen science projects. Kelling uses the eBird project as an exemplar developed within an enterprise application framework. Kelling discusses the need for collaborative project development and lessons learned.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Steve Kelling
resource project Public Programs
The Virginia Master Naturalist program is a corps of well-trained volunteers conducting natural resource education, citizen science, and stewardship projects in their communities for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Michelle Prysby Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Virginia Department of Forestry Virginia Museum of Natural History
resource project Public Programs
This project trains volunteers like you to conduct acoustic bat surveys of your local area using an AnaBat detector attached to a PDA with GPS. The detector picks up the echolocation calls emitted by bats and translates it to a frequency the human ear can hear. Each detection system records information about phenology and species presence. Data is entered into the Wisconsin Bat Monitoring Program database, with the long-term scope of this project to compile information about phenology, species presence, migration timing vs. residence, and trends of the bat species in Wisconsin.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sarah Braun Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the April 2011 workshop, Engaging and Learning for Conservation. It describes the eBirding citizen science program, including its methods, findings and conclusions.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Andrea Wiggins