Impact assessment of citizen science: state of the art and guiding principles for a consolidated approach

U Wehn, M Gharesifard, L Ceccaroni, H Joyce… - Sustainability …, 2021 - Springer
Over the past decade, citizen science has experienced growth and popularity as a scientific
practice and as a new form of stakeholder engagement and public participation in science or …

Citizen science in ecology: a place for humans in nature

FR Adler, AM Green… - Annals of the New York …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
By involving the public, citizen science runs against the grain of an idealized science that
leaves out the human element, and thus provides new opportunities for ecological research …

Public participation in scientific research: a framework for deliberate design

JL Shirk, HL Ballard, CC Wilderman, T Phillips… - Ecology and society, 2012 - JSTOR
Members of the public participate in scientific research in many different contexts, stemming
from traditions as varied as participatory action research and citizen science. Particularly in …

Deep learning is combined with massive-scale citizen science to improve large-scale image classification

DP Sullivan, CF Winsnes, L Åkesson, M Hjelmare… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Pattern recognition and classification of images are key challenges throughout the life
sciences. We combined two approaches for large-scale classification of fluorescence …

[HTML][HTML] A citizen science unmanned aerial system data acquisition protocol and deep learning techniques for the automatic detection and map** of marine litter …

A Papakonstantinou, M Batsaris, S Spondylidis… - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
Marine litter (ML) accumulation in the coastal zone has been recognized as a major problem
in our time, as it can dramatically affect the environment, marine ecosystems, and coastal …

Science for the future: the use of citizen science in marine research and conservation

HS Earp, A Liconti - YOUMARES 9-The Oceans: Our Research, Our Future …, 2020 - Springer
Over the last decade, significant advances in citizen science have occurred, allowing
projects to extend in scope from the ocean floor to the Milky Way and cover almost …

Improving attitudes and knowledge in a citizen science project about urban bat ecology

H Greving, T Bruckermann… - Ecology and society …, 2022 - repo.uni-hannover.de
In order to deal with the current, dramatic decline in biodiversity, the public at large needs to
be aware of and participate in biodiversity research activities. One way to do this is citizen …

Galaxy Zoo: quantitative visual morphological classifications for 48,000 galaxies from CANDELS

BD Simmons, C Lintott, KW Willett… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present quantified visual morphologies of approximately 48,000 galaxies observed in
three Hubble Space Telescope legacy fields by the Cosmic And Near-infrared Deep …

Between vision and reality: A study of scientists' views on citizen science

YN Golumbic, D Orr… - Citizen …, 2017 - account.theoryandpractice …
Increased interest in public engagement with science worldwide has resulted in the growth
of funding opportunities for scientists in the rapidly expanding field of citizen science. This …

A fine-tuned global distribution dataset of marine forests

J Assis, E Fragkopoulou, D Frade, J Neiva, A Oliveira… - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
Species distribution records are a prerequisite to follow climate-induced range shifts across
space and time. However, synthesizing information from various sources such as peer …