Neighborhood level air pollution represents a long-standing issue for many communities
that, until recently, has been difficult to address due to the cost of equipment and lack of …

The potential impacts of citizen science initiatives are increasing across the globe, albeit in
an imbalanced manner. In general, there is a strong element of trial and error in most …

Biodiversity citizen science projects are growing in number, size, and scope, and are
gaining recognition as valuable data sources that build public engagement. Yet publication …

Citizen science is a research practice that relies on public contributions of data. The strong
recognition of its educational value combined with the need for novel methods to handle …

Citizen sensing is an approach that develops and uses lightweight technologies with local
communities to collect, share and act upon data. In doing so it enables them to become …

As part of a national research program studying the sources, distribution, and effects of litter
entering the ocean, we established a national citizen science program engaging nearly …

Citizen science projects are increasingly recognised as catalyst for triggering behaviour
change and building social capital around environmental issues. However, overview studies …

Urbanization is one of the major forms of habitat alteration occurring at the present time.
Although this is typically deleterious to biodiversity, some species flourish within these …

In the USA, thousands of volunteers are engaged in tracking plant and animal phenology
through a variety of citizen science programs for the purpose of amassing spatially and …

This paper provides a quantitative assessment of students' attitude and behaviors towards
marine litter before and after their participation to SEACleaner, an educational and citizen …