Analyzing the Role of Citizen Science in Modern Research

Contributors from education and various sciences help educators and researchers teach scientific subjects to people with little or no scientific background in such a way that the people can understand and engage in citizen science. Their topics include more than just networking for citizen science: examining core roles of practitioner organizations, what drives citizens to engage in citizen science enabled by information and communication technology: a case study of online amateur weather networks, citizen observatories as advanced learning environments, a Welsh decision maker's view on whether citizen science can seriously contribute to policy development, and surface water information collection: volunteers keep the (North American) Great Lakes great. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)