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Aug 30, 2024 | 
dailybulletin.com.au | Sector Lead |Erin Roger
Across Australia and around the world, citizen scientists are protecting species by recording sightings, surveying landscapes and collecting samples. No job is too big or too small. As wildlife ecologists, we are indebted to this army of volunteers. Citizen scientists are everyday people, who are not necessarily experts but who conduct scientific research. There are more than 100,000 citizen scientists in Australia alone.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
eveningreport.nz | Erin Roger |Sector Lead
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Roger, Sector Lead, Atlas of Living Australia, CSIROAcross Australia and around the world, citizen scientists are protecting species by recording sightings, surveying landscapes and collecting samples. No job is too big or too small. As wildlife ecologists, we are indebted to this army of volunteers. Citizen scientists are everyday people, who are not necessarily experts but who conduct scientific research.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Erin Roger |Jasmin Packer |Jodi Rowley |Rachael Gallagher |Thomas Mesaglio
Erin Roger is the former Chair of the Australian Citizen Science Association and is currently employed by the Atlas of Living Australia, at CSIRO. Jasmin G Packer is Vice President of Fungimap Inc., a not-for-profit citizen science organisation for Australia's native fungi, and a Research Fellow in the Environment Institute, University of Adelaide.
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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).
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
phys.org | Erin Roger |Alyssa C. Martino |Rebecca Paxton
Every weekend, thousands of citizen scientists head into the great outdoors. If they see an unusual animal, plant or fungi, they take a photo and upload it. This simple act by bushwalkers with smartphones is, in aggregate, increasingly valuable to researchers.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Erin Roger |Alyssa C. Martino |Rebecca Paxton
Erin Roger works for the Atlas of Living Australia. The Atlas of Living Australia has received funding from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry to build its biosecurity surveillance program. Alyssa Martino is affiliated with The University of Sydney as a PhD student. She previously received funding from Eucalypt Australia under a Dahl Fellowship to establish the Gum Tree Guardians project on iNaturalist.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
thetimes.com.au | Erin Roger |Sector Lead
Every weekend, thousands of citizen scientists head into the great outdoors. If they see an unusual animal, plant or fungi, they take a photo and upload it. This simple act by bushwalkers with smartphones is, in aggregate, increasingly valuable to researchers. Half of all records uploaded to Australia’s largest open-data aggregator, the Atlas of Living Australia[1], now come from[2] citizen scientists – and this number is likely to keep growing.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
publish.csiro.au | Erin Roger |Andrew Turley |Callum Waite |Shandiya Balasubramaniam
Aronsson M, Strand ME, Dettki H, Illander H, Olsson J (2023) Practice, pathways and lessons learned from building a digital data flow with tools: focusing on alien invasive species, from occurrence via measures to documentation. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7, e112337.
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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.
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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.
