Author: Çigdem Adem

The Citizen Science Association is re-energizing a series of interviews with citizen scientists and citizen science enthusiasts. This month, Çiğdem Adem interviews Dr. Vito D.P. Servedio. Vito is a researcher in Physics at the Institute of Complex Systems (ISC-CNR) and the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and works in the field of Complex Systems with particular attention to social dynamics, information dynamics and innovation dynamics. He was the scientific coordinator of the Sapienza Unit for the European Project EveryAware which stands for Enhance Environmental Awareness through Social Information Technologies. Vito, in recent years, the use of web-based games for research purposes is…

The Citizen Science Association is re-energizing a series of interviews with citizen scientists and citizen science enthusiasts. This month, Çiğdem Adem interviews Liz Barry, Director of Community Development at Public Lab. Liz is a landscape architect and organizer interested in collaborative environments. Currently, when she is not hoisting cameras up on balloons (with Public Lab) or hugging trees with tape measures (with TreeKIT), Liz teaches geospatial workflows for urban designers at Columbia University in New York, US. - - - - - Liz, how did your interest in citizen science begin? I have always been interested in the relationship between…