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Member Interview: Clare Hawkins and Anne Eichholtzer

Posted on: April 1, 2020

Clare Hawkins (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is the Citizen Science Coordinator at Bookend Trust and author of the Nature Trackers blog.  She has five years of dedicated experience managing citizen science projects including […]

New Data Quality Resource Compendium

Posted on: March 13, 2020

A well-known  barrier to achieving the science and policy oriented goals of citizen science is the (real or perceived) quality of data generated by our efforts. Back in 2017, the Data […]

Career Path: Kris Stepenuck

Posted on: March 9, 2020

Want to make a career of citizen science, but not sure how? Let’s learn from the experience of those who have successfully built a career in this dynamic field. Kris Stepenuck […]

Introducing Environmental Justice Practitioners Working Group

Posted on: February 10, 2020

We are pleased to announce the Environmental Justice Practitioners’ Working Group (EJPWG)- the newest of nine CSA working groups.  The need for an EJPWG emerged from conversations at CitSci2019 conference initiated […]

Webinar: Balancing Citizen Science Data Collection Needs and Privacy Protections

Posted on: January 9, 2020

Date: Friday, January 24, 2019, from 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM ESTRegister here: http://bit.ly/CSAwebinarPrivacy  The Law and Policy Working Group will be presenting another webinar in their ongoing series. This webinar […]

Water Quality Monitoring Webinars
Category: Blog, CSA Blog, news, News, Webinars

Posted on: January 7, 2020

CSA will be hosting two webinars this month for the National Water Quality Monitoring Council. It was with great sadness that the Advisory Committee for Water Information (a Federal Advisory Committee […]

Citizen Science Month Webinar

Posted on: December 30, 2019

How do we get potential citizen science contributors (the public) more comfortable with participating in real science projects when they have not ‘done’ science since high school, and even then, in […]

CSA Webinar: Approaching Informed Consent in Citizen Science: Legal and Ethical Issues

Posted on: November 4, 2019

Presented by the Law and Policy Working Group and Ethics Working Group Date: Friday, November 22, 2019, from 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM EST How do we know when citizen science […]

Law & Policy Working Group Hosts Webinar to Launch Question Submission Tool

Posted on: October 29, 2019

By Shaun Goho, George Wyeth, and Lea Shanley, CSA Law and Policy Working Group Citizen science practitioners can run into a variety of questions about the laws that affect how they […]

Announcing CitSci2021

Posted on: September 17, 2019

We are excited to announce that CitSci2021 will be held in conjunction with Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS) on May 25-29, 2021 in Phoenix, […]