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Dear friends and colleagues,
Do you design and implement Citizen Science projects, or are you
interested in doing so?
If so, we at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology need your help!
We have received funding from the National Science Foundation to
build community support for emerging and existing citizen science
projects. As stage 1 of our project, we are seeking input from the
growing community of citizen science practitioners.
If you coordinate a North American citizen science project, please
help our project get under way by completing an online survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=282972629584
Your responses to this survey will help us as we:
1. Compile a comprehensive, online, searchable database of North
American citizen science projects and reference materials.
2. Create a "Citizen Science Toolkit," designed to help individuals
and organizations develop, implement, and evaluate citizen science
projects across disciplines.
3. Identify citizen science practitioners (maybe you?) who will be
invited to attend a conference in June, 2007, which will discuss,
revise, and launch the Toolkit for widespread use by the informal
science community.
We hope that this project will foster a supportive and innovative
community of citizen science practitioners and encourage dialog
around program ideas and advancements.
If you are operating a North American citizen science project of any
size, and in any discipline, please help this effort by visiting our
survey at the following address:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=282972629584
(You should be able to reach this survey simply by clicking on the
link, but if that doesn't work, simply cut and paste into your
browser.)
Completing the survey should take only about 15-20 minutes, and can
be done all at once or over several visits to the site.
Also, please forward this message to colleagues, as your connections
are the only way we can ensure that our database becomes as
comprehensive and diverse as possible.
If you have any questions about the survey or the toolkit project,
please email project manager Jennifer Shirk at [log in to unmask]
Thank you for your help!
Jennifer Shirk, Rick Bonney, and the Citizen Science Toolkit team at
the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
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Rick Bonney
Director, Program Development and Evaluation
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
607-254-2442 office
607-227-5520 cell
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