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

Posted on Thursday 5 June 2025 by mukih

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?

Posted on Thursday 5 June 2025 by mukih

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CAPS25 – respectful and reciprocal callaboration with indigenous communities

Posted on Wednesday 28 May 2025 by mukih

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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C*Sci 2023 and the new name of the (US) Citizen Science Association

Posted on Friday 9 June 2023 by mukih

At the end of May, the Citizen Science Association (CSA) celebrated its 10th year anniversary in its conference – C*Sci 2023, held at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona. The conference (22-26 May) provided the opportunity to meet face-to-face colleagues in the area of citizen science, which I haven’t had a chance to talk … Continue reading C*Sci 2023 and the new name of the (US) Citizen Science Association →

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CSA law and policy group: the Aarhus Convention and Citizen Science

Posted on Wednesday 25 November 2020 by mukih

This is the recording from earlier this month from a meeting of the Citizen Science Association (CSA) meeting of the law and policy working group which was dedicated to Aarhus convention and its relevance to citizen science. The main speakers in the session were Lea Shanley, who co-chair the group, Anna Berti Suman (check her … Continue reading CSA law and policy group: the Aarhus Convention and Citizen Science →

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CSA law and policy group: the Aarhus Convention and Citizen Science

Posted on Wednesday 25 November 2020 by mukih

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Reblogged: CitSci2017 – Call for leading volunteers

Posted on Friday 28 August 2015 by mukih

It’s time to start thinking about the Citizen Science Association (CSA) conference in 2017, but conference don’t happen by themselves, so the CSA published CitSci2017: Call for leading volunteers – a call for the people who will form the core of the organising committee.

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Citizen Science 2015 (second day)

Posted on Friday 13 February 2015 by mukih

After a very full first day, the second day opened with a breakfast that provided opportunity to meet the board of the Citizen Science Association (CSA), and to have a nice way to talk with people who got up early (starting at 7am) for another full day of citizen science. Around the breakfast tables, new […]

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Citizen Science 2015 (first day)

Posted on Thursday 12 February 2015 by mukih

San Jose is the location for the first citizen science association meeting, on the 11th and 12th February. The level of enthusiasm to citizen science by researchers and practitioners was palpable, even before the conference with an overwhelming number of submissions and abstract. In the end, the conference run with 7 parallel sessions, and many […]

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