Thank you for making us aware of your interesting and exciting project.
Under the leadership of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), ICC, ELOKA, and other partners have developed a tool that may be useful in your efforts. The Atlas of Community-Based Monitoring in a Changing Arctic (http://www.arcticcbm.org) provides a circumpolar view of CBM and Traditional Knowledge projects. As you will see from the About section, our definition of CBM may or may not directly link to your definition of Citizen Science, however there may be some content in the Atlas that will be useful in your efforts.
I have copied Eva Kruemmel of ICC, and Noor Johnson (former project lead) on this message and I am confident in saying that we would be happy to answer any questions that you, or other APECS members have about the Atlas.
Kind regards,
Peter
On Jul 4, 2015, at 5:39 PM, Amanda Winegardner <amanda.winegardner@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello APECS Canada!As part of a SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant (based out of Wilfrid Laurier University under Dr. Chris Lemieux), I am working on a project that explores links between citizen science and environmental education. Specifically, we are interested in how citizen science programs affect participants' perceptions of climate change and their propensity to take either individual or collective action related to climate change after having participated in a citizen science experience. We are also interested in the extent to which programs with a residential aspect, or those that take participants to a novel biophysical environment produce different learning outcomes than day experience or online programs. The project involves a literature review, a program review, and a case study based in Churchill, Manitoba. The program review part of this project involves gathering information and metadata about citizen programs across Canada and so I would be very interested in learning about any citizen science programs that you and/or your organization is involved with- or if you know of other people that I could get in touch with.Ideally, I'm looking for programs that:- are based in Canada.- involve the collection of scientific data by participants in a systematic way. The program's primary objective does not necessarily have to be contributing to a specific scientific study; the goal of the program could be about education, awareness, outreach etc., but there does need to be an active data collection component.- have a direct (or indirect) research focus on climate change. This parameter is fairly broad for the time being, so even if a program doesn't explicitly meet this criteria, I'd still be interested in hearing about it!- have data (or metadata) available on learning objectives, research objectives, data collection protocols, project outputs, funding and numbers of participants.If you have any programs you'd be interested in talking about, or suggestions of other contacts, please get in touch with me at: amanda.winegardner@mail.mcgill.caThank you!Amanda Winegardner
Peter L. Pulsifer, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
ELOKA Project (http://eloka-arctic.org)
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES)
University of Colorado
449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309
USA
e-mail: pulsifer@nsidc.org
Boulder tel: +1 (303) 619-4560
Ottawa tel : +1 (613) 620-7195
Fax: +1 (613) 249-7067
Skype: pulsifer3639
Research Scientist
ELOKA Project (http://eloka-arctic.org)
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES)
University of Colorado
449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309
USA
e-mail: pulsifer@nsidc.org
Boulder tel: +1 (303) 619-4560
Ottawa tel : +1 (613) 620-7195
Fax: +1 (613) 249-7067
Skype: pulsifer3639
