J_Shirk, Author at Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences

19 Apr 2019

Call for CitSci2021 Local Hosts and Partners

#CitSci2021, Conference

We invite the help of this community in identifying strong and inspired candidates to be our local hosts and partners for the next North American Citizen Science Conference, to be held between January and August of 2021. Have an ideal location and host in mind? Please encourage applications from those you esteem! Interested in hosting? CitSci2021 offers an unique opportunity to put your citizen science leadership on the map. CSA’s biennial conference brings international attention to the work of local/regional organizations, and raises local awareness about the global significance of citizen science. It is also an opportunity for inspired local…

12 Mar 2019

By J_Shirk

2019 CSA Board Elections

AAPS News

Announcing candidates for the 2019-2022 term on CSA's Board of Directors The Nominations Committee is pleased to put forward the following ballot of candidates to fill the four open seats on the CSA Board of Directors. From this ballot, the four candidates with the most votes will be elected to join the CSA Board. Elected candidates will serve a 3-year term beginning in May. As you review the candidate profiles, we urge you to evaluate them on the skills and ideas each might bring to help advance our still fledgling organization. We rely on Board members to shape the future…

07 Feb 2019

By J_Shirk

Welcoming Austin Mast to CSA’s Board

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CSA is please to welcome Austin Mast to the Board of Directors for a one-year appointment to fill an open seat. Austin brings leadership and (much needed, for CSA) financial management skills from his time as Past-President of the Society of Herbarium Curators, Treasurer of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, and member of the leadership team of iDigBio, NSF’s National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections. Austin is a professional biologist with a deep interest in focusing his domain's widespread goodwill towards outreach activities into formal and sustained partnerships between professional science organizations and CSA—partnerships that can broadcast…

11 Jan 2019

By J_Shirk

Why a Citizen Science journal? CS:TP Editor’s blog

Journal

Guest post by Rick Bonney, Editor in Chief of Citizen Science: Theory & Practice. Anybody working in the citizen science field is aware of the proliferation of articles focused on citizen science which have appeared in recent years. Such articles focus on a range of topics including scientific findings based on volunteer-collected data; environmental policies influenced by citizen science data; and social impacts of participating in citizen science. Furthermore, articles have appeared and continue to appear in a range of journals including Science, Bioscience, PLoS one, Conservation Biology, Biological Conservation, Journal of Science Communication, Public Understanding of Science, and many…

31 Dec 2018

By J_Shirk

Is citizen science “hope punk?”

AAPS News

End of year reflections from CSA's Interim Executive Director, Jennifer Shirk The Global Mosquito Alert Consortium tackles issues of public health and species distribution through locally-driven data collection efforts. "Hope punk" is, I've recently learned, a new term for the genre of podcasts that make up most of my playlist (and maybe some of yours as well). As described by some writers and journalists, hope punk is the sense that we can make disruptive, positive choices in light of daunting and unthinkable challenges. To me, this sounds a lot like citizen science. Many of us do citizen science in the…

01 Oct 2018

By J_Shirk

From the Editor’s desk, Citizen Science: Theory & Practice

Journal

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice is an open-access, online, peer-reviewed journal focused on advancing the global field of citizen science. During the journal’s first two years we published 17 research papers, 5 case studies, 3 essays, and 2 review and synthesis papers, compiled into 4 issues. In 2018 we are already into the second issue of the year, and have recently published papers in two new categories: Meeting reports and methods papers. This year we also will publish a special issue focusing on ethics in citizen science. Although we generally publish articles as they are typeset, we are choosing to…

20 Sep 2018

By J_Shirk

Presentation opportunities still open for CitSci2019

#CitSci2019, Conference

The call for abstracts for individual presentations, lightning talks, and posters for CitSci2019 has been extended until 5 October 2018. For more details, please see the official Call for Individual Presentations. In addition, two new presentations strands are now open for submissions, both via our host institution, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. These are for Project Slam presentations during the opening reception, and for Citizen Science Festival exhibits during the all-day public event on Saturday. Don't miss the chance to add your voice to the many coming together for this event. The Call for Symposia and Workshop proposals…

21 Aug 2018

By J_Shirk

On Showing up and Standing up: Holding the CitSci2019 Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina

#CitSci2019, Conference

Post by Jennifer Shirk, Caren Cooper, and Anne Bowser The CSA is returning to North Carolina for our 2019 Conference after a 2017 boycott of discriminatory laws. Returning is complicated, both politically and financially, and is a decision that our board has discussed extensively these last few years. Here we strive to be up front about the factors at play, and what is in the works to keep our values at the fore. Background In 2016, CSA’s then Chair Greg Newman first explained the decision to move, which was, “... based on our firm believe that our conferences ought to…

21 Aug 2018

By J_Shirk

Webinar: Maximize Data and Engagement for Management Outcomes with CitSci.org

Webinars

Webinar brought to you by CitSci.org, an organizational member of CSA. Join researchers at Colorado State University to explore the free tools available through CitSci.org to manage both field-based data and volunteer engagement. Thursday, 30 August 2018 | 1-2pm US Eastern Time Click here to Register CitSci.org is an open and transparent citizen science platform that advances the utility, impacts, and outcomes of field-based citizen science programs globally. This platform now supports more than 580 projects ranging from those that monitor water quality to habitat and wildlife populations to invasive species. CitSci.org is unique among field-based platforms in that it…

01 Aug 2018

By J_Shirk

Website in recovery

AAPS News

Pardon our bumps and bruises! The CitizenScience.org website is still in recovery from a deep hack earlier this summer. Notably lost are most of the images previously on the site, as well as some custom menus and curated blog pages. Although we are working hard to clean things up, please don't hesitate to bring problems to our attention if you encounter them. info@participatorysciences.org Have an interest in web infrastructure/security? Want to join a short-term task team to help us plan and avoid future outages? Definitely drop us a line! info@participatorysciences.org

Author: J_Shirk