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Going Beyond Hooked Participants: The Nibble-and-Drop Framework for Classifying Citizen Science Participation

Creator:

Fischer, Heather, Cho, Holly, and Storksdieck, Martin

Abstract:

Many citizen science (CS) programs aim to grow and sustain a pool of enthusiastic participants who consistently contribute their efforts to a specific scientific endeavor. Consequently, much research has explored CS participants’ motivations and their relationship to participant recruitment and retention. However, much of this research has focused on actively...

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Article
Citizen Science Research : A Focus on Historical Whaling Data and a Current Marine Mammal Citizen Science Project, Whale mAPP

Creator:

Hann, Courtney

Abstract:

Citizen science work has built the foundation of much of our knowledge on regional-scale large cetacean spatial patterns through historical whaling data. Historical whaling data on sperm whales was used as an example to show the type of ecological questions large-scale, long-term citizen science datasets can address. Results from the...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis