Measuring the impact of citizen science activities in environmental projects
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Check out this article on MICS (Measuring the impacts of citizen science) on page 15 of the ECRR Technical Newsletter.
News for: Citizen science
Volunteer recorders play vital role in monitoring the state of nature
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
A partnership of 70 wildlife organisations, research institutes and government agencies has produced the third State of Nature report, the clearest picture to date of the status of UK plant and animal species. The 2019 report, which follows similar assessments in 2013 and 2016, has revealed average declines in distribution and abundance of five per cent and 13 per cent, respectively, since 1970.
Funding Opportunity: UKRI citizen science exploration grants
Friday, September 20, 2019
UK Research and innovation is launching a new £400,000 funding call to encourage researchers and innovators to experiment with citizen science.
Citizen science is an important way in which diverse groups of people can participate and collaborate in research and innovation. This could include crowdsourcing data, working with volunteers to analyse existing datasets, collaborating with communities in designing research programmes, and approaches to innovation that involve diverse groups of people in the innovation process.
Thames WaterBlitz
Friday, September 13, 2019
Get involved in this European Citizen Science research project, and help by sampling water quality in the Thames Valley.
A citizen science initiative for intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams
Monday, June 3, 2019
Do you know of a river or stream that sometimes stops flowing? Have you ever wondered when, where and why it stops, or what the damage might be? Scientists and environmental regulators are looking for answers to the same questions, but there is a problem. Lack of data.
