Category: CAPS25

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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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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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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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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