Science Community Coordinator in the Digital Collections Programme at the Natural History Museum London, European Citizen Science Association Board of Directors.
Protecting the ocean is essential for the sustainability of the planet. Oceans provide food and l... more Protecting the ocean is essential for the sustainability of the planet. Oceans provide food and livelihood for human populations, host vast biodiversity and ecosystems and provide climate regulatory services. However, due to the vastness of the oceans, monitoring ocean pollution and health is logistically challenging and expensive. This is particularly true for plastics. In the last 50 years, global production of plastics has increased more than 22-fold, and only an estimated 9% of plastics produced have been recycled1; Moreover, there is a lack of information on the volume of plastic that is currently in the ocean, where that plastic accumulates, and the process of how plastic breaks down into microplastic as well as a lack of information on how plastic affects ecosystem or human health. Answering these questions requires new ways of collecting and analyzing data. Citizen science and complementary activities, like targeted beach clean-ups, not only provide a cost effective mechanis...
Encounters in Citizen Science - European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), 6-11 September 2020,... more Encounters in Citizen Science - European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), 6-11 September 2020, Trieste, ItalyThe UN Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) are a call to action to tackle the world’sgreatest challenges. The key question is howto achieve the SDGs when there are large datagaps or the data are not comprehensiveenough to make timely decisions to enhancepeople’s wellbeing. This session willdemonstrate the value of citizen science forthe SDGs including examples of how citizenscience currently contributes to SDGmonitoring as well as where it has thepotential to contribute. Recommendations forhow citizen science data can be integratedinto the official statistics used for SDGreporting will be providedPeer reviewe
This document has been created by the community of Citizen Observatories and Citizen Science prac... more This document has been created by the community of Citizen Observatories and Citizen Science practitioners, as well as key collaborators that attended the Citizen Science working session in the EuroGEO Workshop taking place on July 3-5th, 2019 at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento in Lisbon (Portugal). The event was co-organised by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the European Commission (EC). This document summarises the current status of Citizen Science in GEO/GEOSS, reflects the vision, and objectives; identifies issues that are blocking its progress and proposes a way forward shared by the Citizen Observatories and Citizen Science projects under the EuroGEO community. Then, it proposes a shared vision, a clear set of objectives and some actions that will pave the way to progress towards that shared vision, based on aggregating citizen science into a federation of data services supported by the Citizen Science community activity in the GEO work program tha...
Protecting the ocean is essential for the sustainability of the planet. Oceans provide food and l... more Protecting the ocean is essential for the sustainability of the planet. Oceans provide food and livelihood for human populations, host vast biodiversity and ecosystems and provide climate regulatory services. However, due to the vastness of the oceans, monitoring ocean pollution and health is logistically challenging and expensive. This is particularly true for plastics. In the last 50 years, global production of plastics has increased more than 22-fold, and only an estimated 9% of plastics produced have been recycled1; Moreover, there is a lack of information on the volume of plastic that is currently in the ocean, where that plastic accumulates, and the process of how plastic breaks down into microplastic as well as a lack of information on how plastic affects ecosystem or human health. Answering these questions requires new ways of collecting and analyzing data. Citizen science and complementary activities, like targeted beach clean-ups, not only provide a cost effective mechanis...
Encounters in Citizen Science - European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), 6-11 September 2020,... more Encounters in Citizen Science - European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), 6-11 September 2020, Trieste, ItalyThe UN Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) are a call to action to tackle the world’sgreatest challenges. The key question is howto achieve the SDGs when there are large datagaps or the data are not comprehensiveenough to make timely decisions to enhancepeople’s wellbeing. This session willdemonstrate the value of citizen science forthe SDGs including examples of how citizenscience currently contributes to SDGmonitoring as well as where it has thepotential to contribute. Recommendations forhow citizen science data can be integratedinto the official statistics used for SDGreporting will be providedPeer reviewe
This document has been created by the community of Citizen Observatories and Citizen Science prac... more This document has been created by the community of Citizen Observatories and Citizen Science practitioners, as well as key collaborators that attended the Citizen Science working session in the EuroGEO Workshop taking place on July 3-5th, 2019 at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento in Lisbon (Portugal). The event was co-organised by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the European Commission (EC). This document summarises the current status of Citizen Science in GEO/GEOSS, reflects the vision, and objectives; identifies issues that are blocking its progress and proposes a way forward shared by the Citizen Observatories and Citizen Science projects under the EuroGEO community. Then, it proposes a shared vision, a clear set of objectives and some actions that will pave the way to progress towards that shared vision, based on aggregating citizen science into a federation of data services supported by the Citizen Science community activity in the GEO work program tha...
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