With the right training materials, many types of projects can be appropriate for citizen scientists.
project, which encourages people along the bay’s coastline to log dolphin sightings to better understand the movements of the aquatic mammals.
“By having all of those volunteers collecting data on items and brands, you can have a large enough sample size and identify brands [that are massive litter contributors] to inform local policies like local bans, material redesign, or improved waste management,” she says.Citizen science is also quite affordable compared to other scientific monitoring methods.
“It does give us a way to see how urban areas impact phenology, which is really interesting as a research topic,” Posthumus says, using the example of how urban heat islands and extra light sources impact city-dwelling flora and fauna. “But yes, it is limiting, we don’t have as much data from outside of those areas.”
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