In our last session of this course we got introduced to René van der Wal, Professor of Environmental Citizen Science at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), whose research addresses the impact of participating in citizen science on participants and the broader impacts of citizen science on society as a whole.
In one of our last sessions in this course we were joined by orcid:0000-0002-2352-5497, also known as Dag Endresen. Dag is the manager of the Norwegian GBIF node, and has years of experience in the technical, political and social aspects of data sharing through the network on various local scales …
Machine learning (ML) has become an interesting part of data analysis in the last decade. Many applications of ML have led to increased interests in its usage and development. As part of our citizen science course, we were honored to be joined by Laurens Hogeweg (Naturalis Biodiversity Center) and Mark …
With the alarming increase in consumption we face every day at the expense of natural resources and land use transformation, we need to care more than ever about the impacts these habits and the decisions humans make have on biodiversity. In our latest lecture (we are alive after our crazy …
With the dark and cold winter coming to Norway we switched environment once again and we came back to the comfort and security of a University meeting room during our last Citizen Science course meeting. The session was lead by Jorge and Kwaku and we had the pleasure of welcoming …
Was Charles Darwin a citizen scientist, when boarding, as a yet untrained naturalist, the HMS Beagle to make observations that later revolutionized our knowledge of life on earth? Already centuries ago ordinary people (but mostly wealthy gentlemen) recorded features and observations of the natural world. With more structured designs and …
As our PhD course in citizen science continues, we’ve moved from the field to our computers to explore some analysis approaches for working with citizen science data. We spent our most recent class session working through a tutorial that Ben created to introduce point process models. So what do point …
Wednesday (September 23rd), the entire group met up at the local hiking area near Byåsen to get some actual real-life citizen science field experience. We held a little bioblitz (i.e. a sort of informal field survey) as the kick off for a PhD course on Citizen Science we are all …
Bayesian modelling over the past decade has become an integral part of statistical modelling in ecological and conservational studies. Given the prior knowledge we have, we can then infer from the available data by accounting for this prior knowledge. A method well known to the Bayesians is the Markov Chain …
In order to make the most of the data we collect, we as scientists need to make data FAIR; Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. This was the focus of a 2 day Living Norway seminar at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA).
