At NatureMetrics, we’re passionate about the advancement of knowledge and the accessibility of science, which is why we created the NatureMetrics eDNA Discovery Lab.Whether you’re a school group or a grandparent, a corporate organisation or a community project- when you engage in citizen science you are supporting our natural world and educating through action. T.C. Nature‐based citizen science projects that take place in outdoor environments. The person who transcribes the most pages on a ship becomes the captain. Citizen science can fill this gap through the novel application of traditional sensors such as Palmes’ diffusion tubes44 and the ongoing efforts to develop reliable low-cost electrochemical sensors45. Below is our suggested roadmap for building support and creating operational workflows within the UN and its member countries. The horizontal line in each box is the median. The current level of investment and research indicates that some air-quality indicators, such as CO2, NO2 or particulate matter, may see increased adoption and use of low-cost sensors in the coming decade, especially within action-oriented monitoring schemes that can tolerate indicative levels rather than high-level accuracy for compliance purposes. Small-scale farmers who do not have access to expensive soil and crop monitoring services are provided with the technology and knowledge to monitor soil moisture and implement adaptive soil and land management. Low-cost air quality monitoring tools: from research to practice (a workshop summary). Thank you for visiting nature.com. Jake Weltzin, an ecologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, is executive director of the USA National Phenology Network, which runs a project called Nature's Notebook. In September 2015, the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which consists of 17 SDGs, was ratified1. The third and final level of the roadmap concerns activities that affect citizen-science projects operating at the local level. To obtain Due to these high costs, the cycle of data collection is often infrequent, and hence these traditional data sources can quickly become outdated. The limits of the boxes are the lower (Q1) and upper quartile (Q3) of the distribution. If you find something abusive or that does not comply with our terms or guidelines please flag it as inappropriate. We start by examining issues related to traditional data used in SDG reporting and how the emergence of new sources can fill data gaps. Whether you like photographing songbirds, dragonflies, or even seahorses, there’s a project for you! The second step is to get the custodian agencies for the indicators identified on board. As projects evolve, organizers can contact those super users and invite them to participate at a higher level, perhaps by helping to analyse data or to manage groups of other citizen scientists. Res. Black diamonds indicate the weighted continental average by population. Steffen Fritz. Burfield, I. J. Citizens science and bioacoustics. Figure 2 shows the traditional data used for SDG reporting by NSOs, other ministries and international organizations (top of Fig. And because users log in to use the system, the researchers can track which citizen scientists are best at which tasks and then give extra weight to results from the best performers. Data coverage refers to data availability in the last 10 years while data openness refers to five elements weighted equally, namely machine readability, use of non-proprietary formats, download options, metadata availability and terms of use. Identifying bat calls isn't as difficult as it might seem. Geoinf. PubMed Google Scholar, Citizen scientists' climate-impact survey wraps up, 2012 Conference on Public Participation in Scientific Research, Gura, T. Citizen science: Amateur experts. Citizen Science. The latter could contribute to Tier I and II indicators, but more importantly, could provide alternative methodologies and data sources for Tier III (see Box 2). Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs): the development and characteristics of a global inventory of key sites for biodiversity. An example is the climate-smart agriculture Modulo Agroclimático Inteligente e Sustentável (MAIS) program in Brazil37. Bird Conserv. A new guide will get you started. Front. Community science (sometimes called citizen science) mobilizes volunteers to work alongside scientists to help answer questions about the world. The number and types of citizen science projects across the province continues to grow and provides people of all ages and abilities with the opportunity to contribute to key nature conservation projects in their community. At the same time, this may positively impact the temporal resolution at which the data are collected, that is, more frequent update cycles as well as better early warnings are possible with data collected by volunteers. “People fall in love with the ships,” says Brohan. ISSN 2398-9629 (online). Jerome Lewis, a social anthropologist at University College London (UCL), was working with pygmy hunter-gatherers in Rwanda and other areas in the region when they told him about poachers killing animals and loggers destroying natural resources, such as sacred trees. Due to its success, Curious Noses has now been up-scaled to the broader Flanders region of Belgium with the involvement of 20,000 participants47. The US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy memorandum on citizen science, issued 30 September 2015, provides guiding principles, including providing volunteers with appropriate access to their data, ensuring meaningful engagement of the public in scientific research, and giving appropriate attribution for volunteer contributions. 27, 1–5 (2017). https://odin.opendatawatch.com/data/download, https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/iaeg-sdgs/tier-classification/, https://www.unglobalpulse.org/data-for-climate-action, https://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/partnership/about-birdlife, https://github.com/lshanley/CitSciDefinitions, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-019-09915-z, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0390-3, Citizen Science as Democratic Innovation That Renews Environmental Monitoring and Assessment for the Sustainable Development Goals in Rural Areas, Correcting misclassification errors in crowdsourced ecological data: A Bayesian perspective, A Buzz for Sustainability and Conservation: The Growing Potential of Citizen Science Studies on Bees, Citizen Science for Transformative Air Quality Policy in Germany and Niger, Coordinator Perceptions When Assessing the Impact of Citizen Science towards Sustainable Development Goals. “It is like playing Whack-a-Mole with all hammers out. Since the launch of Old Weather in October 2010, at least 16,400 citizen scientists have entered more than one million log pages to produce 1.6 million weather records, the basis for five atmospheric analyses. Whatever a volunteer's motivation — even if it is just the joy of participating — scientists have to understand and nurture it. Realising the triple objective of scientific rigour, policy influence and deep citizen engagement in a large-scale citizen science project on ambient air quality in Antwerp. A big thank you to everyone who took part in the City Nature Challenge: London this year! Collaborating with Muki Haklay, a geographic information scientist at UCL, Lewis sought a way to help, and to document the damage for policy-makers. At the same time, the citizen-science community must identify potential privacy risks and help citizen-science projects adhere to applicable data privacy laws, for example, the EU General Data Protection Regulation effective from 25 May 2018, which requires protection of personal data and addresses the transfer of data out of the EU; this has implications for global-scale citizen-science projects. Bizikova, L. & Pinter, L. Indicator Preferences in National Reporting of Progress Toward the Sustainable Development Goals (IISD, 2017). Citizen Science for Environmental Policy: Development of an EU-wide Inventory and Analysis of Selected Practices (Bio Innovation Service, 2018). The global indicator framework is developed and implemented by the IAEG-SDGs, consisting of member states and regional and international agencies. See, L. et al. Community members carry the phones into the forests and press the relevant icon when standing in front of a landmark such as a sacred tree that could be targeted by loggers. Currently, two SDG indicators are linked to air quality: (1) Indicator 3.9.1: ‘Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution’; and (2) Indicator 11.6.2: ‘Annual mean levels of fine particulate matter (e.g. UN General Assembly Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development A/RES/70/1 (United Nations, 2015). Earth observation (for example, satellite imagery, LiDAR and drones). Citizen science terminology matters: exploring key terms. Geophys. SDG indicators are largely fed by traditional data from NSOs, other government ministries and official agencies, and international organizations. Hence citizen science contributes to additional Tier I indicators such as 15.1.2: ‘Proportion of important sites for terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity that are covered by protected areas, by ecosystem type’; and 15.4.1: ‘Coverage by protected areas of important sites for mountain biodiversity’. El Monitoreo Participativo del Agua (Autoridad Nacional del Agua, Gobierno del Perú, 2018). Our Community Science Program welcomes all people to participate in our projects and events, and looks forward to many valuable new partnerships and collaborations. Eutrophication is increasing in coastal waters, and UN Environment—the custodian agency responsible for this indicator—recommends the combined use of remote sensing and citizen science for large-scale monitoring with validation by citizens39,40. The final source of non-traditional data shown in Fig. 1a), which suggests that countries with greater capacity for data collection are also more likely to make their data open. Hadj-Hammou, J., Loiselle, S., Ophof, D. & Thornhill, I. In the Andean region of Peru, local stakeholders, academic institutions and NGOs have formed the Regional Initiative for Hydrological Monitoring of Andean Ecosystems (iMHEA) to improve management of local water resources. … M.H. Arnold, S., Chen, J. Ecol. Tracking Australia’s Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals 2018 (Australian Government, 2018). After the methodology is refined and finalized, it can be submitted to the IAEG-SDGs for review and validation. The alliance has received 200 proposals for possible projects in the past year alone, and launched 10. and L.S. The Summer LakeKeepers program is a citizen science program run by the Alberta Lake Management Society. A number of activities can take place in parallel, some of which have already been initiated. volume 496, pages 259–261 (2013)Cite this article. So, we want to say thank you. (2021), Nature Sustainability A fourth key activity in the roadmap will be to promote dialogue on data quality, which will be the number one concern for NSOs, as well as data management including standards, metadata and interoperability. At first, it seemed that citizen science was not an option, because the hunter-gatherers could not read or write — let alone access the Internet. In perhaps the most avant-garde example of citizen science, members of communities in the Congo Basin are set to aid land and animal conservation. “Being able to think about and collect data at a continental scale.”. The project currently samples fossil formations along the east coast of the United States, but Osborne hopes to expand his sampling work to Panama and other countries. eine Form der Offenen Wissenschaft, bei der Projekte unter Mithilfe von oder komplett durch interessierte Laien durchgeführt werden. Researchers thinking about entering the citizen-science fray should contact established associations for guidance and consider what they want from the end result — is it outreach alone, or something more? The data streams back to Haklay's team, which creates a map and report. The roadmap is organized into activities that take place at three levels, that is, global, national and local, with interactions between these levels to reach a set of overarching goals (Fig. Mammals. In an offshoot of Paleo Quest called SharkFinder, for example, Osborne and co-founder Aaron Alford identify layers of rock riddled with shark fossils and take large samples from river swamps and other remote environments. Data collection and processing are the next two aspects of the process dimension. Citizen science projects are activities sponsored by a wide variety of organizations so non-scientists can meaningfully contribute to scientific research. Main Results of the UNECE-UNSD Survey on the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses (UNECE and UNSD, 2009). Lett. Although we have demonstrated that data from citizen science are already starting to contribute to some of the indicators (Tier I and II), the real potential exists in contributing to Tier III indicators, where the data and/or methodologies are still being developed. Here we argue that data produced through ‘citizen science’3, which is the involvement of citizens in scientific research and/or knowledge production, can complement and ultimately improve the SDG reporting process. Global and Complementary (Non-Authoritative) Geospatial Data for SDGs: Role and Utilization (Working Group on Geospatial Information, IAEG-SDGs, 2019). Investing in citizen science can improve natural resource management and environmental protection. Scott Stevens, a research associate at the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites in Asheville, North Carolina, works for a project in which citizen scientists classify images of storms. The acceptance of data collected by citizens in the Philippines as outlined above is a prime example33 while Australia has developed its own ‘Method for Australia’s SDG baseline assessment’ that allows for the reporting and monitoring of quantities adapted to their specific country context49. Finally, questions have been raised about the accuracy, openness and coverage of some official data sets6. Front. 776740). Int. The iMHEA network has co-developed a robust and standardized water monitoring protocol, and leverages partnerships with local universities to provide resources for training, equipment calibration, and data analysis and management35. “You just have to test your model as you would had you written a new computer code.”. Moreover, opportunities should be created for peer-to-peer networking among statisticians to share lessons learned and best practices in using citizen science for SDG monitoring, including harmonizing data from citizen science with more traditional sources of data. Alternatively, it may be opportunistic, that is, allowing users to collect data on the presence of a phenomenon anywhere in space and time. But recruiting non-scientists comes with complications, including finding the right technical tools and partners to organize and execute projects with potentially thousands of data collectors. There are indications that in the past five years or so, citizen science has become more popular with researchers — and more likely to translate into a legitimate, publishable research project. Wiggins, A., Newman, G., Stevenson, R. D. & Crowston, K. Mechanisms for data quality and validation in citizen science. Figure 1 shows the variation in the coverage and openness of official statistical data by continent, which demonstrates large disparities across and within the continents. MacDicken, K. G. Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015: what, why and how? A similar organization called SciStarter now boasts more than 450 projects. Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily. Citizen science: People power. volume 2, pages 922–930 (2019)Cite this article, An Author Correction to this article was published on 18 October 2019. Learn more about New England-based citizen science here! As an added feature, the phones come with a thermoelectric battery charger, which can convert heat from campfires to electricity. Biol. “The science has to be romantic, in a way, so that people want to support the research behind it,” says Jason Osborne, president and co-founder of Paleo Quest, a citizen-science organization focused on palaeontology. Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily. People management is one of greatest challenges, says Andrea Wiggins, a social scientist who studies citizen science at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque as part of DataONE, an NSF-funded project aimed at increasing the availability of Earth and environmental data. “You are getting the information that you need at the same time that you are getting people involved.”. For example, Justin Halberda, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, wanted to study how cognition develops as people age. Citizens and satellites: assessment of phytoplankton dynamics in a NW Mediterranean aquaculture zone. Future iterations of the PPSR core standard can incorporate economic, environmental and societal dimensions of the SDGs. Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (The World Bank, 2011). Eitzel, M. V. et al. Citizen science might appear to be all upside and little downside — a way to get others to do cheaply what researchers cannot or do not want to do. Sullivan, B. L. et al. USA 109, 11116–11120; 2012). J.L.O., D.F., R.M., M.B., L.A.S., S.S. and U.W. Examples include: Official data sets compiled within national spatial data infrastructures (such as buildings, roads and hydrological networks) and geographic information systems. While following along, readers transcribe the information into online forms, which Brohan's team analyses. The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is spearheading efforts to support SDG monitoring with Earth observation. Although valuable and necessary, these traditional sources of data, nevertheless, fall short in several ways. Citizen-science data, like traditional data, can be characterized according to five main dimensions as shown in the first inner ring of Fig. Citizen science is a great way to meet your broader-impact requirements, says Weltzin. Issues Ecol. Networks of human minds are taking citizen science to a new level, reports Eric Hand. We conclude with a roadmap containing a set of actions for mainstreaming the use of data from citizen science into official SDG reporting at global and national levels, with a proposal for supporting activities at the local level. Toidujäätmete ja Toidukao teke Eesti Kodumajapidamistes ja Toitlustusasutustes (SEI, 2015). Moreover, the proportion of the Tier III indicators is much higher for the environment-related SDG indicators, with roughly 30% in the Tier III category. If all goes well, citizen science is a way to communicate science, engage in outreach and accomplish research aims. 2 is citizen-generated data, which are defined as data produced by citizens and their organizations in monitoring issues that affect them in order to realize change16. A., Price, I., Jeansou, E., Zielinski, O. In this Perspective, we present a roadmap that outlines how citizen science can be integrated into the formal Sustainable Development Goals reporting mechanisms. Jason Osborne, co-founder of the citizen-science project Paleo Quest, reached out to teachers and then pitched an educational model for boosting interest in the sciences to corporate donors. Groups such as Citizen Science Central provide an online toolkit (go.nature.com/e1jjm5), and DataONE has a guide to data management for citizen-science projects (go.nature.com/xfpdmh). 3. 1, Table 1and refs. The weather has become just one part of a larger tale — but that part yields the science. Here the citizen-science community should work with decision makers in other countries around the world to craft policies that authorize, encourage and provide guidelines for the appropriate use of citizen science for SDG monitoring. For many of these ‘proxy’ indicators, citizen participation provides the main data collection mechanism. An example is the global platform eBird, which has become integrated with existing regional platforms, harmonizing data with existing projects and increasing the size and reach of the data available22. The logs are handwritten, so they cannot be digitized automatically. Proc. Robinson, L., Cawthray, J., West, S., Bonn, A. Visit the listed website for further details on the project and how you can get involved. Citizens receive the title of cadet when they join. The limits of the whiskers are the minimum and maximum values. Each dimension has various features, shown in the second inner ring, each of which can be shown to have value for the SDGs. “There has got to be that kind of wow factor.” And if they discover a new species, Osborne's citizen scientists might be named on a publication — or even be given the opportunity to name the species. Camera trapping combines old-fashioned field skills with the latest technology. Many of the online actions are one off – so you can dip into citizen science as and when you have a moment. Between 30th of April and 3rd May over 300 people in London recorded 4,721 observations of 963 species – you can view everyone’s finds in the iNaturalist project.. Any fossils that students discover are sent to the University of Maryland in College Park, where palaeontologists led by Bretton Kent verify the findings. All Tier III indicators require a work plan and methodological development to be approved by the IAEG-SDGs. Some citizen-science projects may use richer, more detailed, user-defined taxonomies compared to those found in more official data sets. Sometimes specialist knowledge is required, but often a basic grasp of wildlife is all you need to get involved - some projects offer training or identification guides to help you, too. The second level of the roadmap concerns activities geared at the national level (Fig. Ochoa‐Tocachi, B. F. et al. Tarchiani, V. et al. Natural England. Nature Citizen science is an emerging example of a non-traditional data source that is already making a contribution.
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