Citizen science achievements
If the number of scientific studies that produced results as published works, then citizen science does a remarkable job. Fundamentally, if citizen science didn't produce scientifically-accepted results, then no-one would use it. This is just not the case; highly respected scientists put their names on studies that have involved a few volunteers or hundreds of thousands. Hard cash is used to fund citizen science projects. A sample of studies includes such diverse topics as:
Hanny van Arkel on TEDx
Below is a video featuring Hanny van Arkel (a dutch schoolteacher) talking about CS.
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Published citizen science
- "Describing Vocalizations in Young
Children: A Big Data Approach Through
Citizen Science Annotation."
Info - "Exploring the role of smartphone
technology for citizen science in
agriculture."
Info - "Millions of historical monthly rainfall
observations taken in the UK and
Ireland rescued by citizen scientists."
Info - "Of Scribes and Scripts: Citizen Science
and the Cairo Genizah."
Info - "ForestEyes Project Citizen Science and
Machine Learning to detect deforested
areas in tropical forests."
Info - "Deep learning for automatic segment-
ation of the nuclear envelope in electron
microscopy data, trained with
volunteer segmentations."
Info - "Citizen science, computing, and conser-
vation:How can “Crowd AI” change the
way we tackle large-scale ecological
challenges?"
Info - "Involving recreational snorkelers in
inventory improvement or creation:
a case study in the Indian Ocean."
Info
First use of phrase
"Just as interesting is the use of ‘citizen scientist’. It was used 10 years earlier, in an article in New Scientist that discussed enthusiasts researching Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)."
