- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Practice of Citizen Science
- 1 Overview of Citizen Science
- 2 Projects and Possibilities
- 3 Using Bioinformatics in Citizen Science
- 4 Growing the Base for Citizen Science
- 5 What Is Our Impact?
- Part II Impacts of Citizen Science on Conservation Research
- 6 The Opportunities and Challenges of Citizen Science as a Tool for Ecological Research
- 7 Widening the Circle of Investigation
- 8 Using Data Mining to Discover Biological Patterns in Citizen Science Observations
- 9 Developing a Conservation Research Program with Citizen Science
- 10 Citizens, Science, and Environmental Policy
- Part III Educational, social, and Behavioral Aspects of Citizen Science
- 11 Cognitive Considerations in the Development of Citizen Science Projects
- 12 Who Poses the Question?
- 13 A Gateway to Science for All
- 14 Children and Nature
- 15 Internet-Based Social Networking and Collective Action Models of Citizen Science
- 16 A Role for Citizen Science in Disaster and Conflict Recovery and Resilience
- Afterword
- Literature Cited
- Index
A Gateway to Science for All
A Gateway to Science for All
Celebrate Urban Birds
- Chapter:
- (p.191) 13 A Gateway to Science for All
- Source:
- Citizen Science
- Author(s):
Karen Purcell
Cecilia Garibay
Janis L. Dickinson
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter discusses the importance of audience diversification and the removal of barriers to citizen science participation by underserved audiences. More specifically, it explores ways to achieve an equitable representation of all audiences in citizen science in general and birding in particular. To make its case, the chapter looks at Celebrate Urban Birds, a citizen science project developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in 2007, to highlight strategies for including audiences who may not have had opportunities to connect with nature or to see themselves as science participants. Celebrate Urban Birds demonstrates the potential of citizen science to promote inclusion in nature study and to raise awareness and interest in biodiversity and environmental science.
Keywords: citizen science, birding, Celebrate Urban Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, nature, inclusion, nature study, biodiversity, environmental science, citizen science participation
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Practice of Citizen Science
- 1 Overview of Citizen Science
- 2 Projects and Possibilities
- 3 Using Bioinformatics in Citizen Science
- 4 Growing the Base for Citizen Science
- 5 What Is Our Impact?
- Part II Impacts of Citizen Science on Conservation Research
- 6 The Opportunities and Challenges of Citizen Science as a Tool for Ecological Research
- 7 Widening the Circle of Investigation
- 8 Using Data Mining to Discover Biological Patterns in Citizen Science Observations
- 9 Developing a Conservation Research Program with Citizen Science
- 10 Citizens, Science, and Environmental Policy
- Part III Educational, social, and Behavioral Aspects of Citizen Science
- 11 Cognitive Considerations in the Development of Citizen Science Projects
- 12 Who Poses the Question?
- 13 A Gateway to Science for All
- 14 Children and Nature
- 15 Internet-Based Social Networking and Collective Action Models of Citizen Science
- 16 A Role for Citizen Science in Disaster and Conflict Recovery and Resilience
- Afterword
- Literature Cited
- Index
