A new dawn for citizen science

Silvertown, Jonathan (2009). A new dawn for citizen science. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 24(9) pp. 467–471.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.03.017

Abstract

A citizen scientist is a volunteer who collects and/or processes data as part of a scientific enquiry. Projects that involve citizen scientists are burgeoning, particularly in ecology and the environmental sciences, although the roots of citizen science go back to the very beginnings of modern science itself.

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• Jonathan Silvertown