Citizen science is a rapidly growing field whereby volunteers can collect and/or analyze data
to contribute to research and gain an appreciation for the environment. There are countless …

Contemporary global change is altering ecosystems at an unprecedented pace and scale.
This critical period is a crisis for biodiversity, but the perturbations caused by global …

Citizen science is mainstream: millions of people contribute data to a growing array of citizen
science projects annually, forming massive datasets that will drive research for years to …

Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, impacting ecosystem services necessary
to ensure food, water, and human health and well-being. Understanding the distribution of …

Conservation planning requires extensive amounts of data, yet data collection is expensive,
and there is often a trade‐off between the quantity and quality of data that can be collected …

Opportunistic citizen science (CS) programs allow volunteers to report species observations
from anywhere, at any time, and can assemble large volumes of historic and current data at …

Shutdowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have had extensive impacts on
professional and volunteer-based biodiversity and conservation efforts. We evaluated the …

Aggregate biodiversity data from museum specimens and community observations have
promise for macroscale ecological analyses. Despite this, many groups are under‐sampled …

Simple Summary The mosquito is the deadliest animal on earth, transmitting diseases that
cause nearly a million deaths and> 700 million infections each year. Yet only relatively few …

Skill-based outcomes play a prominent role in citizen science experiences as they are
situated directly between the dual, intertwining goals of advancing science learning and …