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Circle-U. UCLouvain – Citizen science: rethinking research with and for society

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Notes from a seminar that was held on June 5, World Environment Day. It is part of the Circle U. Climate Day 2025. It was organised as a hybrid event. Caroline Michellier, Université catholique de Louvain led the organisation of the seminar, and it was integrated into a series of transdisciplinary seminars. It explored how citizen science can enrich … Continue reading Circle-U. UCLouvain – Citizen science: rethinking research with and for society →

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Circle U, citizen science, climate change, Education, Environment, Environmental information, nature, News, UCLouvain

CAPS 2025 – uncertain or resiliant future for USA participatory science?

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CAPS 2025, like the previous conferences of the Association for Advancing Participatory Science (AAPS, formerly the Citizen Science Association), was an opportunity to learn about the state of citizen science in the USA. The conference took place in Portland, Oregon, where 13 years ago the first conference of what will become the CSA took place. … Continue reading CAPS 2025 – uncertain or resiliant future for USA participatory science? →

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AAPS, CAPS25, citizen science, community science, Conference, CSA, Participatory science

CAPS 2025 – uncertain or resiliant future for USA participatory science?

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CAPS 2025, like the previous conferences of the Association for Advancing Participatory Science (AAPS, formerly the Citizen Science Association), was an opportunity to learn about the state of citizen science in the USA. The conference took place in Portland, Oregon, where 13 years ago the first conference of what will become the CSA took place. … Continue reading CAPS 2025 – uncertain or resiliant future for USA participatory science? →

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AAPS, CAPS25, citizen science, community science, Conference, CSA, Participatory science

CAPS25 – Responsible, ethical, and trustworthy use of AI in participatory sciences

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 Convener: Liz Dowthwaite, University of Nottingham and Responsible AI UK Speakers: Lucy Fortson, University of Minnesota and Zooniverse; Sarah Huebner, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Luigi Ceccaroni, Earthwatch Europe; Andrea Grover, University of Nebraska at Omaha AI is a lot of things – machine learning, NLP, computer vision, genAI and LLM but it is getting capabilities and impact. The … Continue reading CAPS25 – Responsible, ethical, and trustworthy use of AI in participatory sciences →

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AI, citizen science, Conference, ethics

CAPS25 – respectful and reciprocal callaboration with indigenous communities

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Examples of partnerships – the issue of supporting fire that is done by bringing cultural fire and considering how to do a controlled burn, but it is also done in understanding the landscape and learning about the fire. In contrast, cultural burn was an intergenerational element and some of the safety aspects are blocking learning. … Continue reading CAPS25 – respectful and reciprocal callaboration with indigenous communities →

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AAPS, CAPS25, citizen science, Collaboration, CSA, indigenous knowledge

CAPS25 conference – iNatuarlist keynote

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This week it’s the Association for Advancing Participatory Science conference (27-30 May 2025). The opening keynote was given by iNaturalist Scott Loarie, the executive director of iNaturalist. Scott covered 5 lessons from iNat. It started as an MSc project, and has been going in for 17 years. It’s growing over time, about 8m observation. Seasonality … Continue reading CAPS25 conference – iNatuarlist keynote →

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CAPS25, citizen science, Conference, Environmental information, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

AAG 2025 Talks

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As the AAG has just wrapped up I thought I would write brief (well actually quite long) post on the talks that I was involved with at the conference. These talks would not have been possible without the many great students and colleagues who I have bee…

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AAG, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Geosimulation, GIS, Large Language Models, Machine Learning, multi-modal large language models, social media, Social network analysis, Street View Imagery

New Directions in Mapping the Earth’s Surface with Citizen Science and Generative

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In previous posts, we have written how large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can be used in various urban analytical applications. We have kept exploring this potential especially with respect to citizen science applications. To this end we have…

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AI, ChatGPT, citizen science, Crowdsourcing, Large Language Models, multi-modal large language models

Professor

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeVlsRubPWYAcademic news! I’m now — officially — Professor of Economic Geography at UCL.Like most universities, UCL announces these in the summer; but in true academic style, new titles only go live today.I’m delighted t…

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Navigating GeoParquet: Lessons Learned from the eMOTIONAL Cities Project

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The eMOTIONAL Cities project has set out to understand how the natural and built environment can shape the feelings and emotions of those who experience it. At its core lies a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) which combines a variety of … Continue reading →

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Big Data, cloud, Cloud Computing, data mining, Databases, FOSS, FOSS4G, geoparquet, Geospatial, GIS, Location technologies, OGC, parquet, Standards
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