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CS for monitoring jellyfish “invasion” in Trieste (Italy)
By Antonella Passani - T6 Ecosystems Un bloom di meduse, trascinate dalla corrente, ha colorato di rosa in queste ore lo specchio d’acqua su cui affaccia il centro di Trieste, tra il molo Audace e la stazione marittima. Un’invasione che non è passata inosservata ai...
ACTION coordinator KCL participated in the Citizen Data Science workshop
By Elena Simper and Eddy Maddalena - KCL ACTION coordinator KCL participated in the Citizen Data Science workshop held on 12 March 2020 by the Royal Society in partnership with the Ada Lovelace Institute, the Alan Turing Institute, the British Academy, DataKind UK,...
Evidence light pollution can be measured directly from space
By Lucía García & Jaime Zamorano - UCM Light pollution was believed could only be measured with photometers from the ground, but a new research published in Scientific Reports (Nature group) has proven that it is also detectable from space. Satellites detect...
Citizen Science on Lockdown
As millions across the globe are having to self-isolate to prevent the spread of coronavirus, astronomical observation activities are reduced to those we can carry out from our home with instrumentation we happen to have with us. The lockdown is an exceptional...
The importance of green space in cities
By Roy van Grunsven - Dutch Butterfly Conservation In parts of Europe where there is no complete lockdown, people are allowed to go outside in small numbers while keeping a distance. In several cases this has led to large numbers of people going to parks and green...
What do you understand by #OpenScience?
Last February, from 17th to 19th, ACTION celebrated its Accelerator Kick-off Meeting in Berlin. Members of the project had a meeting to give a boost to the development of the actions in which they are involved. Among the participants, Oscar Corcho, as part of UPM,...
Breaking down the ivory tower with citizen scientists
During the NWO Synergy conference, we did a workshop on citizen science’s potential to democratise our science system. Participants thought about what we need to change in our current scientific system and came up with problems such as the widening gap between science...
Habitat loss and drought huge blow for Dutch butterflies
Many butterfly species are threatened in the Netherlands, especially species from nutrient poor sandy areas are doing poorly.
Butterflies show pollution with nitrogen
Agriculture, industry and traffic cause emissions of reactive nitrogen, NH4 for agriculture and NOx in industry and traffic.
The Virtual City Explorer (VCE) – a crowdsourced solution for mapping infrastructure within towns and cities
By Neal Reeves - University of Southampton Developed as part of the Horizon2020 project QROWD, the Virtual City Explorer (VCE) is a crowdsourced solution for mapping infrastructure within towns and cities. Users can identify features of interest, tag them and...
“Coney: A CONversational survEY Toolkit ” at the CHItaly Conference 2019
CONEY, the CONversational survEY toolkit developed by Cefriel, has been showcased at the CHItaly 2019 Conference in Padova - Italy (23-25 September). Coney is a tool designed to help researchers in collecting data from users. The toolkit allows designing surveys to be...
Citizen scientists to tackle ocean plastic pollution
A crew of citizen scientists will embark in October on a round-the-world voyage to address ocean plastic pollution. The voyage sets sail on October 8th. The team behind the EXXpedition voyage are partnering with researchers at The University of Plymouth to develop...
Citizen data meets urban planning to win prestigious prize
This weekend at digital art festival Ars Electronica, participatory urban planning project 300.000 Km/s won the STARTS Prize for Innovative Collaboration. The project, which combined research with citizen co-creation to generate a new urban plan for the Ciutat Vella...
Microplastics found in the Arctic snow fly there
By Kat Austen - IGB A study from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute reports that microplastic particles have been found in snow from the Alps to the Arctic. Of those particles found in Arctic snow varnish, rubber, polyethylene, and polyamide are most common. Most of the...
Air Pollution project spans India – Pakistan border
By Kat Austen - IGB Researchers from UrbanSciences in Mumbai and Pakistan Air Quality (PakAirQuality https://twitter.com/pakairquality ) Initiative in Islamabad are collaborating to provide open data in Pakistan for citizens to get updates on air pollution across...
Invasion of painted ladies in North-Western Europe
The last few days the number of Painted ladies, large orange and black butterflies have increased enormously in North-Western Europe. These butterflies come from Africa and the Mediterranean to the northern parts of Europe almost every year but the numbers vary a lot....
Garden butterfly count
From 6 till 28th of July 2019 people in the Netherlands were asked to record the number of butterflies in their garden for 15 minutes. In total 73.445 butterflies were recorded in 2956 gardens. This gives insight in an important habitat that is not easily accessible...
Citizen science can change the world
How can citizen science projects influence the world we live in? A substantial number of citizen science projects start from the wish to change something. The Tatort street light project, for example, measures insect occurrence and behaviour because they want to...
Impact assessment: a multidimensional approach
How do we measure the impact of citizen science projects? Citizen science projects are different from more traditional scientific pursuits and from “standard” projects with specific targets. A citizen science project can be hugely successful even if it produces no...
The Lean Survey Canvas
Gloria Re Calegari - Cefriel - 23/7/2019The Lean Survey Canvas - A methodology to design powerful surveys Surveys are the main method employed in collecting data from users and many citizen science projects face the not-so-easy task of designing a good questionnaire....
Tellus 2019
By Nuria Castell - NILU The Environmental and climate conference Tellus 2019 (Miljø- og klimakonferansen), organized by the Oslo main library, will take place from 12 to 14 June. The conference invites several hundred of upper secondary schools in Oslo to meet...
“Pushing boundaries” – ECSITE 2019 – Copenhagen
By Nuria Castell - NILU “Pushing boundaries” - was the title of the ECSITE 2019 conference that took place in Copenhagen last week. It gathered 1190 participants from 59 different countries, making it the largest ECSITE Conference ever. NILU presented the ACTION case...
LPTMM Conference 2019: Studying light pollution in a color changing world
By Jaime Zamorano - UCM The Light Pollution: Theory, Modelling and Measurements Conference took place this year in Zselic Valley, Hungary, from 25 to 28 June 2019. This meeting is held every two years and gathers researchers working in Theory, Modelling or...
Citizen science & transition
Julia Wittmayer, Drift, 03-06-2019 What is the role of citizen science in sustainability transitions? While the field of sustainability transitions research starts to embrace transformative research approaches such as transdisciplinary research, Living Lab approaches...
Citizen Sensing
Annelli Janssen, Drift Citizen Sensing – a toolbox is a great guide for setting up a citizen sensing project, based on the experiences of the Making Sense project. The toolkit is based on values of empowerment, co-creation, changemaking, and openness. It contains...
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