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Citizen Science and Ethics session (British Ecological Society – Citizen Science SIG)

Posted on Monday 11 May 2015 by mukih

As part of the activities of the Citizen Science Special Interest Group of the British Ecological Society (BES), Michael Pocock organised “A training event for citizen science: What you need to know, but no one told you!”. I was asked to lead a 30 minutes discussion on ethics and citizen science. This is a wide area, and … Continue reading Citizen Science and Ethics session (British Ecological Society – Citizen Science SIG)

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British Ecological Society & Société Française d’Ecologie meeting, Lille (Day 2)

Posted on Thursday 11 December 2014 by mukih

Notes from the second day of the BES/sfé annual meeting (see first day notes here) Several talks in sessions that attracted my attention: Daniel Richards (National University of Singapore) looked at cultural ecosystem services from social media sources. He mentioned previous study by Casalegno at al 2013 study on social media and ecosystem services . In Singapore […]

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British Ecological Society & Société Française d’Ecologie meeting, Lille (Day 1)

Posted on Wednesday 10 December 2014 by mukih

The British Ecological Society (BES) & Société Française d’Ecologie meeting organised their annual meetings to be a joint meeting, held in Lille 9-12 December. Over the past 5 years, my journey in citizen science gave me an opportunity to reconnect to ecology, a topic in which I was interested in during my high-school years. I was […]

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