09 Sep 2025
By Reanna Putnam
AAPS Fall Meeting and Community Conversation 

AAPS Fall Meeting and Community Conversation 

Events
Join us for a community conversation about project resilience amidst funding uncertainty. As part of the AAPS official fall meeting, this 1.5 hour online session opens with the Association’s annual report and highlights commitments to confronting challenges and fostering a bright future for this field. The headline event–a fishbowl discussion–aims to explore the hidden synergies and untapped resources that can help projects stay afloat during lean funding cycles. At AAPS, we know that we do science better together, and through this event we strive to identify ways we as a community can support one another and continue to grow as a…
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08 Sep 2025
By Reanna Putnam
2025 Lunch and Learn Series

2025 Lunch and Learn Series

Events
Drop in this fall for “lunchtime” chats with AAPS leaders and members. This new series offers members the chance to engage directly with experts and leaders around timely topics. Designed to launch conversation and collaboration, sessions open with a brief overview from the host and speaker, and shift quickly to audience-driven discussions. Each session’s free registration also invites your questions in advance, to help prime conversations around details of interest to you. This fall’s sessions will address these questions: Can states ban use of community monitoring data? September 30th, 1pm ET With: Jay Benforado (EPA, retired and AAPS Board Chair),…
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07 Aug 2025
By Reanna Putnam
Online Workshops

Online Workshops

Events
We are pleased to offer a selection of workshops from CAPS 2025 in an online format this September 9-10. These engaging sessions will equip you with practical tools to enhance your projects and programs. Explore research-based best practices for collaborating with K–12 teachers, or dive into a unique model for nocturnal wildlife monitoring—all from the comfort of your own space. These online workshops, scheduled for September 9th and 10th, are open to all, with discounts available to both CAPS 2025 registrants and AAPS members. Please use the links provided via email to access applicable workshop discounts. Register Here OWK.01: Developing High-quality Teacher Support Materials for…
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22 Jul 2025
By Reanna Putnam
2025 AAPS Career Forum

2025 AAPS Career Forum

Events, Uncategorized,
Join us for an AAPS Career Forum on August 8th at 12pm ET. Our curated networking format involves pairing students and early career individuals with field leaders form a variety of sectors for one-on-one and small group conversations.  Join a museum researcher, environmental justice data scientist, Master Naturalist program director, state agency leader, evaluators, and hear their advice on the skills and experience needed to build careers in the participatory sciences. Register Here for the event, and let us know in the form what kinds of careers and topics you are interested in exploring. Registering early helps us make sure that…
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30 Sep 2024
By Reanna Putnam
2024 Fall Meeting

2024 Fall Meeting

Events
October 28th, 2024, 1pm ET | 10am PT  Register Here Join AAPS leaders for an hour of inspiration and action-oriented discussions about how the Associations’ efforts to advance participatory sciences can engage, serve, and support you in your work at the AAPS Member Meeting on October 28th. This event will connect with the volunteer leaders championing new and on-going AAPS initiatives and learn how you can support these field-building efforts. You’ll also get a first look into the preliminary program for CAPS 2025. We will then spend half of the meeting in small breakouts talking about ways we can work…
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28 Nov 2023
By Reanna Putnam
Celebrating 10 years Advancing Participatory Sciences

Celebrating 10 years Advancing Participatory Sciences

AAPS News, Events,
We are proud of the work we have done over the past ten years, and all of the people who have helped to build this field and Association. An event on October 5th, 2023 celebrated this history and community and propelled us into the future and a new phase of growth. This new phase includes affirming our identity an embracing a new name, the Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences (more on the name change here).  This event marked the launch of a new Awards program to honor those whose work inspires and enables the best in this field. Three awards…
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