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Researchers: Share your citizen science success stories with SciStarter, PLOS, and Discover Magazine
By Darlene Cavalier, Jul 12, 2013
SciStarter’s editors write and manage the SciStarter blog and the CitizenSci blog on the Public Library of Science website. They are planning a series of posts to review research outcomes and emergent technologies from a representative set of projects. If you’d like to share the research outcomes from your project and new, related emergent technologies, email Lily@SciStarter.com .
We are also writing a series to explore how individuals and communities benefit from the citizen-science experience. If your project and/or participant(s) in your project have influenced policy, on-the-ground conservation, and/or community vitality, particularly in some unexpected way, please email Caren@SciStarter.com .
We are currently writing a short essay for Discover Magazine on why citizen science matters. For those who may think it’s a fad or “just a hobby,” we’d like to describe how it has yielded substantive scientific information. How has your citizen science project advanced scientific research? Tell us by July 19 and we might include your story in our essay! Email darlene@scistarter.com .
Darlene Cavalier is a professor of practice at Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society and a Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at ASU. Professor Cavalier is the founder of SciStarter (a popular citizen science portal and research platform connecting millions of people to real science they can do), founder of Science Cheerleaders (a non profit organization comprised of current and former NFL, NBA and college cheerleaders pursuing STEM careers), cofounder of ECAST: Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology and cofounder of ScienceNearMe.org. She is a founding board member of the Citizen Science Association, an advisor and Fellow at National Geographic, a member of the EPA's National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, appointed to the National Academy of Sciences "Designing Citizen Science to Support Science Learning" committee and named cochair of America 250's Innovation, Science, and Entrepreneurism Advisory Council. She is the co-editor of "The Rightful Place of Science: Citizen Science," author of "The Science of Cheerleading," and co-author of the Field Guide to Citizen Science (Timber Press). Recently, ASU President Michael Crow awarded Cavalier and her team the prestigious Medal for Social Embeddedness.
