Cameron Slatyer

Aug 27, 2024 | conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Rachael Gallagher |Erin Roger |Cameron Slatyer |Jasmin Packer

INTRODUCTION Citizen science for biodiversity monitoring has arrived (Chandler et al., 2017; Fontaine et al., 2022). Recent initiatives demonstrate that, collectively, citizen scientists are capturing unprecedented volumes of data (Figure 1) (Aristeidou et al., 2021; Perry et al., 2022; Peter et al., 2019; Unger et al., 2021). In many cases, citizen scientists are inspired to halt extinctions and protect threatened species (Soroye et al., 2022; Steven et al., 2019).

Sep 27, 2023 | phys.org | Erin Roger |Cameron Slatyer |Dax J. Kellie

Citizen science isn't new anymore. For decades, keen amateur naturalists have been gathering data about nature and the environment around them—and sharing it. But what is new is the rate at which citizen scientists are collecting and sharing useful data.

Sep 26, 2023 | theconversation.com | Erin Roger |Cameron Slatyer |Dax J. Kellie

Citizen science isn’t new anymore. For decades, keen amateur naturalists have been gathering data about nature and the environment around them – and sharing it. But what is new is the rate at which citizen scientists are collecting and sharing useful data. Last year, 10 million observations of species were collected. Our new research shows 9.6 million of those came from citizen scientists. It makes intuitive sense. There are only so many professional researchers.