Thank yous

The Citizen Science Association would like to thank the over 100 individuals, from across this community and beyond, who participated in phone interviews, online forms, and in-person focus groups to inform CSA’s strategic directions. Special thanks go to Anne Bowser, Mark Chandler, Shannon Dosemagen, Sheldon Greaves, Sarah Kirn, Alison Parker, Kris Stepenuck, and Bill Zoellick for their vision, reflection, and synthesis, and to David Miller for his guidance in this process.

We are grateful for the ongoing support of the Schoodic Institute, and for their assistance as fiscal sponsor of this grant. https://schoodicinstitute.org

Support for this effort was provided by a grant from the Pisces Foundation, which seeks ways to accelerate to a world where people and nature thrive together. http://piscesfoundation.org

Photo credits

First cover strip Citizen science monitoring in Old Woman Creek Natural Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio (© Emily Kuzmick ODNR); Second cover strip Land cover observations (GLOBE) and Disk Detective/Zooniverse (NASA/Jonathan Holden); Third cover strip CitSci2019 poster session (© Marilú López-Fretts); Fourth cover strip Stall Catchers event and app (courtesy of Human Computation Institute, CC BY-SA 4.0); Page 3 IDAH2O (© Jim Ekins); Page 5 FoldIt (FoldIt); Page 6 CitSci2019 poster session (© Marilú López-Fretts). Layout by Barkland, www.barkland.fi.