Call for Citizen Science Abstracts: American Geophysical Union

Session ID# 13679: “ED020. Educator/Student Programs Promoting Authentic Scientific Research”:  Celebrating its 14th year, this session seeks to highlight programs and initiatives that provide authentic research experiences for educators and students at all levels from K-12 to undergraduate experiences.  Presentations can address the roles of scientists and education experts in bringing research experiences to the classroom. We welcome presentations from educators, scientists, and students as well as those who design, facilitate, evaluate or fund programs. Presentations can focus on designing and implementing research experiences that align with national, state, and/or local reform efforts in science education. Other topics may include recruitment strategies, program sustainability, internet and archival research projects, citizen science, mentoring, student outcomes, evaluation results, and lessons learned from past efforts. Additionally, we invite presentations from student-led research projects. Presentations are welcome from all scientific disciplines including astronomy, planetary and space science, geology and geophysics, seismology, biogeoscience, atmosphere and ocean sciences, and climate and environmental science.Session ID# 12673: “ED008. Citizen Science with Big Data: Intersection of Outreach, Crowd-Sourced Data and Scientific Research”: The traditional method of outreach to formal, informal, science and non-science audiences has undergone a fundamental change with recent advances in technology, social media and crowd-sourced data, giving way to citizen science with many applications. With increasing “Big Data” projects, active partnerships between professional, amateur and data scientist communities are necessary. Innovative design, sustainability and evaluation of these projects is as important as the citizen science they generate. This session invites papers from scientists, educators and as well as those who design, facilitate, evaluate or fund such programs. Topics may include methodology, applications of citizen science to enhancing outreach, transformative approaches to science education, lessons learned, and the future of citizen science. Presentations are invited from all scientific disciplines including astronomy, planetary and space science, geology and geophysics, seismology, biogeoscience, and atmosphere and ocean sciences. Join us for our 8th year, to learn and share experiences.