Full title: The Growing World of Citizen Science: A look at how NOAA is harnessing the power of the crowd

Speakers: Chris Bowser, Education Coordinator, Hudson River Estuary Program and Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve; NYS Water Resource Institute at Cornell University

Amy Fritz, NOAA National Weather Service, Office of Observations, National Cooperative ObserverProgram Manager

Jennifer Jencks, Director of the IHO Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information

John McLaughlin (NOAA Citizen Science Co-Coordinator), NOAA Office of Education

Laura Oremland (NOAA Citizen Science Co-Coordinator), NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology

Gil Compo, University of Colorado CIRES and NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division

Abstract: Volunteers have long played a role in advancing scientific research and monitoring, but new tools and methods are rapidly expanding the ways they can participate. The Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Act of 2016 states citizen science projects“have a number of additional unique benefits, including accelerating scientific research, increasing cost effectiveness to maximize the return on taxpayer dollars, addressing societal needs, providing hands-on learning in STEM, and connecting members of the public directly to Federal science agency missions and to each other”. We will discuss NOAA’s approach to citizen science (also known as community science) and look at 4 projects including: 1) Cooperative Observer Program; 2) Crowdsourced Bathymetry; 3) Hudson River Eel Project; and 4) Old Weather. Learn how you can get involved in NOAA’s citizen science community whether you are a project manager, a prospective volunteer, or are simply curious.

About the Speakers: Chris Bowser is the Education Coordinator for the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve.He has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa and teaches environmental science at Marist College.
Amy Fritz is the new National Cooperative Observer Program managers as of April, 2019. She manages the Cooperative Observer (COOP) program comprised of over 10,000 volunteers at 8100 sites that provided daily meteorological readings, mainly precipitation and temperature, to the U.S. Climate Record.

Jennifer Jencks is the Director of the IHO Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry, which is hosted by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) in Boulder, Colorado. She leads the NCEI Ocean and Coastal Mapping Team and is actively involved with many national and international seafloor mapping projects.

John McLaughlin is a Program Officer with NOAA's Environmental Literacy Program. He has worked in citizen science since 2002 and serves as a Citizen Science Coordinator for the agency.

Laura Oremland is an Education Program Manager in the NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology. She has worked in citizen science since 2015 with a special focus on incorporated citizen science into fisheries research.

Gil Compo is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division. He leads the NOAA-CIRES-DOE 20th Century Reanalysis Project, the global weather reconstruction now spanning 1806 to 2015, and is a co-lead of the Old Weather citizen science project recovering marine weather observations to better understand global weather and its changes since observational records began. Old Weather has involved more than 20,000 people since its inception in 2010.

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