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CLA Yahara Lakes Citizen Offshore Water Quality Monitoring 2016 - 2017
In 2013, Clean Lakes Alliance (CLA) launched a Citizen Water Quality Monitoring pilot. Objectives included evaluating and tracking nearshore water quality conditions on all five Yahara lakes: Lakes Mendota, Monona, Waubesa, Kegonsa and Wingra. In 2016, in order to fully understand the interaction between the offshore and nearshore environment, CLA volunteers will begin sampling the deepest point (deep hole) of all Yahara lakes. The offshore monitoring program will focus on two components: water clarity sampling and dissolved oxygen and temperature measurement. Data from the offshore monitoring program will be compared to data from the nearshore program.
SCShores: time-series of shorelines from Spanish Sandy beaches from citizen-science monitoring program.
<p>This repository contains 5 years of sandy beaches shorelines deriverd from a citizen-science monitoring program in the Spanish coast. The methodology and the dataset are described in:</p> <p><em><strong>González-Villanueva, R., Soriano-González, J., Alejo, I., Criado-Sudau, F., Plomaritis, T., Fernàndez-Mora, À., Benavente, J., Del Río, L., Nombela, M. Á., and Sánchez-García, E.: SCShores: a comprehensive shoreline dataset of Spanish sandy beaches from a citizen-science monitoring programme, Earth System Science Data. V. 15, 4613-4629 , <a href="https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/4613/2023/essd-15-4613-2023.html">https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-4613-2023</a>, 2023. </strong></em></p> <p>The shoreline dataset is provided in 1 GEOJSON file: SCShores.geojson. This dataset covers five<strong> </strong>sandy beaches located on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Spain where CoastSnap stations were available, and it includes a total of 1721 shorelines. The coordinate system for the geospatial layer is WGS84.</p> <ul> <li><strong><em>SCShores.geojson</em></strong>: this layer contains the sandy shorelines . Each feature in this layer is a multipoint with the following attributtes: <ul> <li><strong>site</strong>: CoastSnap station name id, e.g. agrelo, samarador, cadiz, ….</li> <li><strong>date</strong>: date and time of the shoreline, yyyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss</li> <li><strong>timezone</strong>: Coordinated Universal Time, UTC</li> <li><strong>timestampQuality</strong>: quality flag indicating the confidence in the date-time indicated by the image provider, e.g. 1, 2</li> <li><strong>imageSource</strong>: source of the original image from which the shoreline has been derived, e.g. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Email, CoastSnapApp</li> <li><strong>elevation_m:</strong> same as Z coordinate, defined by the observed tide and the tidal offset, in meters, Tide+tide offset</li> <li><strong>verticalDatum</strong>: mean sea level in Alicante, which is considered the zero topographic reference in the Spanish territory, NMMA</li> <li><strong>geometry</strong>: type of geometry used in the file, MultiPoint</li> <li><strong>coordinates</strong>: Geographic WGS84 coordinates for each point in the geometry, longitude, latitude, Z</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p> </p>
Preliminary table of Citizen Science initiatives for monitoring soil health
<p>This matrix is the result of collaborative work for Deliverable 1.1 (WP1; T1.1) of the ECHO project. It facilitated the creation of an overview of the current state of the art in projects, initiatives, or activities that have already involved citizens in monitoring soil health, from both inside and outside the European Union. From this, strategic recommendations for ECHO were derived, ensuring that this project not only makes a valuable contribution to the field of soil health monitoring but also sets a precedent for future citizen science endeavors.</p>
Estimating the carbon footprint of citizen science biodiversity monitoring
<p>Datasets used in the production of the paper Gillings, S. & Harris, S.J. 2022. Estimating the carbon footprint of citizen science biodiversity monitoring. People & Nature.</p> <p>The dataset comprises a) the estimated round-trip distances from approximate locations of observers to survey locations for the UK Breeding Bird Survey and b) questionnaire responses concerning mode of travel used to access survey locations. Data have been anonymised and locations have been coarsened to preserve anonymity.</p> <p>We would also greatly appreciate if you could fill out <a href="https://forms.gle/DCc58VXpdmqnTmTk8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this very short form</a> to tell us how you intend to use these data. Thanks in advance!</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
The Effect of Soundscape Composition on Bird Vocalization Classification in a Citizen Science Biodiversity Monitoring Project
<p>This archive includes sound clips (.wav files) and associated mel-scale spectrograms of bird vocalizations for 54 species in Sonoma County, California, USA. These data were used for training and validating convolutional neural network (CNN) models for bird species detection. We also include xeno-canto training and validation mel spectrograms used to pretrain CNNs. Details on these data are explained in the paper by Clark et al. (2023) titled "The effect of soundscape composition on bird vocalization classification in a citizen science biodiversity monitoring project". These data are available for use without restrictions, with no warranty on data quality or utility for a given application. We request that any work that does use these data cite the Clark et al. (2023) paper.<br> <br> Clark, M.L., Salas, L., Baligar, S., Quinn, C., Snyder, R.L., Leland, D., Schackwitz, W., Goetz, S.J., Newsam, S. (2023). The effect of soundscape composition on bird vocalization classification in a citizen science biodiversity monitoring project. <em>Ecological Informatics</em>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102065">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102065</a></p> <p>Associated code for training CNN models, performing inference, and applying post-classification corrections can be found in the GitHub archive <a href="https://github.com/pointblue/Soundscapes2Landscapes/tree/master/CNN_Bird_Species">https://github.com/pointblue/Soundscapes2Landscapes/tree/master/CNN_Bird_Species</a></p> <p>Raw sound data from the Soundscapes to Landscapes project are available upon request: Dr. Matthew Clark, matthew.clark@sonoma.edu</p> <p>These data were collected as part of the Soundscapes to Landscapes project (<a href="https://soundscapes2landscapes.org/">soundscapes2landscapes.org</a>), funded by NASA’s Citizen Science for Earth Systems Program (CSESP) 16-CSESP 2016-0009 under cooperative agreement 80NSSC18M0107.<br> <br> ----------------------------<br> This depository includes the following archives:</p> <ul> <li> <p>mel_specs.zip: contains 2-sec mel spectrograms split into training (“tr”), validation (“val”), testing (“test”) data for each target bird species (n = 54) used to fine-tune the CNNs. Select spectrogram files are appended with “aug” if they are augmented versions for the training data.</p> </li> <li> <p>wav.zip: contains the associated wav-format sound recordings used to generate the training, validation, testing mel spectrograms found in mel_specs.zip.</p> </li> <li> <p>Xeno-canto_pretrain.tar: contains 2-sec mel spectrograms split into training and validation data for 40 bird species used for CNN pre-training that were generated using a warbleR segmentation methodology described in the paper. The sound files used to generate these mel spectrograms came from the Kaggle competition, <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/imoore/xenocanto-bird-recordings-dataset">https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/imoore/xenocanto-bird-recordings-dataset</a><br> Mel spectrogram naming reflects the XC number used for cataloging on Xeno-canto in the format XC123456_2.png. The six numbers following the XC characters can be used to search for unique recordings on Xeno-canto (<a href="https://xeno-canto.org/">https://xeno-canto.org/</a>) using the search query “nr:123456” in the search tool or queried using the Xeno-canto API (<a href="https://xeno-canto.org/explore/api">https://xeno-canto.org/explore/api</a>). Unique recording names can be extracted from the mel spectrogram filenames.</p> </li> <li> <p>soundscape_test_wavs.zip: the wav-format sound recordings used to perform soundscape testing.</p> </li> </ul>
Data from: Trends in butterfly populations in UK gardens – new evidence from citizen science monitoring
<p>This data package describes the annual abundance indices and trend estimates for 22 butterfly species in UK gardens for the period 2007-2020.</p> <p>These data form the basis of the results presented in: Plummer, K.E., Dadam, D., Brereton, T., Dennis, E.B., Massimino, D., Risely, K. et al. (2023) Trends in butterfly populations in UK gardens—New evidence from citizen science monitoring. <em>Insect Conservation and Diversity</em>, 1– 13. Available from: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12645">https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12645</a></p> <p>Please refer to the paper for an explanation of the underlying BTO Garden BirdWatch (GBW) data and modelling protocols used to produce the datasets included here.</p> <p>We would also greatly appreciate if you could fill out <a href="https://forms.gle/DCc58VXpdmqnTmTk8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this very short form</a> to tell us how you intend to use these data. Thanks in advance!</p>
DNR Citizen Monitoring Lake Level Data from 2010 to 2015 in Wisconsin
The lake level data from the DNR citizen monitoring project. This ongoing project has been collecting lake level data from 20 lakes in 11 counties in Wisconsin since 2010. It features the citizen voluntary action in the monitoring work. The data are hosted by Surface Water Integrated Monitoring System so its short name in this dataset is SWIMS.
SeaPaCS graphic elaboration of the Protocol for marine micro-plastic collection and monitoring in citizen science and for building a L.A.D.I. trawling tool
<p>This is a graphic elaboration (in Italian) of the protocol "SeaPaCS deliverable - protocol for plastic monitoring in citizen science" in English and Italian is a deliverable of the SeaPaCS project (Participatory Citizen Science Against Marine Pollution), funded by IMPETUS (project ID 101058677). The protocol and the visual elaboration has been freely adapted from "<i>LADI and the Trawl</i>" by Coco Coyle with Melissa Novaceski, Emily Wells and Max Liboiron, as published by the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research, August 2016. The graphic elaboration (as the protocol) in both languages, consists of three parts: 1) how to build a DIY low cost manta trawl device (LADI - Low-Tech Aquatic Detection Debris Instrument) to monitor plastic pollution, adjusted to materials availability and costs in Italy; 2) how to monitor (the sampling itself and towing procedure); and 3) how to categorize plastic debris back on land. </p>
Reporting Database of the INCENTIVE project's monitoring and evaluation activities of the Citizen Science Hubs pilot operation (M16-M31)
<p>The current excel file constitutes the INCENTIVE Reporting Database, meaning a repository of the data that were accumulated in WP4 (described within Deliverable 4.1). The results presented here are the main input for the elaboration of Deliverable 4.2 and Deliverable 4.3.</p>
The Potential of Deep Learning Object Detection in Citizen-Driven Snail Host Monitoring to Map Putative Disease Transmission Sites
<p><a name="_Hlk158802145"></a><span>Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by parasitic flukes transmitted by freshwater snails. Despite increasing efforts of mass drug administration, schistosomiasis remains a public health concern and the World Health Organization recommends complementary snail control. To address the need of broad-scale and actual snail distribution data to guide snail control, we adopted a citizen science approach and recruited citizen scientists (CS) to perform weekly snail sampling in the endemic setting in Uganda. Snails were identified, sorted and counted according to genus, photographed and uploaded for expert-led validation and feedback. However, expert validation is time-consuming and introduces a delay in verified data output. Thus, artificial intelligence could provide a solution by means of automated detection and counting of multiple snails collected from the field. Trained on approximately 2500 citizen-collected images, the resulting model can simultaneously detect and count Biomphalaria and Radix snails with average precision of 98.1% and 98.8% respectively. The object detection model also agreed with the expert’s decision averagely for 98.8% of the test images and could be ran in real-time (24.6 images per second). We conclude that the automatic and instant detection can rapidly and reliably validate data submitted by CS in the field, ultimately minimizing the expert validation efforts and thereby facilitating the mapping of putative schistosomiasis transmission sites. An extension to a mobile application could equip citizen scientists in remote areas with instant learning opportunities and expert-like identification skills, overcoming the need for on-site training and extensive expert intervention. </span></p>
ScintPi: A low-cost, easy-to-build GPS ionospheric scintillation monitor for DASI studies of space weather, education, and citizen science initiatives
<p>These data sets contain ionospheric scintillation (GPS L1) observations (S4 indices) collected by a ScintPi prototype during 2018 at a low magnetic latitude station (Presidente Prudente). ScintPi is a low-cost, easy-to-build GPS ionospheric scintillation monitor for DASI studies of space weather, education, and citizen science initiatives.</p> <p>The file named "ScintPi_PPR_S4_2018.mat" contains S4 values (s4mat) for 2018 as a function of universal time (utmat), day-of-year (doymat), GPS satellite identifier number (prnmat), GPS satellite elevation (elmat) and azimuth (azmat) angles.</p> <p>The file named "ScintPi_PPR_20180211.mat" contains example raw (10 Hz) measurements made by ScintPi on February 11, 2018. The file contains values of receiver's altitude, latitude and longitude (variables alt,lat, and lon), GPS satellite azimuth and elevation (variables el and az), GPS identifier number (prn), signal-to-noise ratio (snr), and day-of-year (doy).</p>
Artificial night light helps account for observer bias in citizen science monitoring of an expanding large mammal population
1. The integration of citizen scientists into ecological research is transforming how, where, and when data are collected, and expanding the potential scales of ecological studies. Citizen-science projects can provide numerous benefits for participants, while educating and connecting professionals with lay audiences, potentially increasing acceptance of conservation and management actions. However, for all the benefits, collection of citizen-science data is often biased towards areas that are easily accessible (e.g. developments and roadways), and thus data are usually affected by issues typical of opportunistic surveys (e.g. uneven sampling effort). These areas are usually illuminated by artificial light at night (ALAN), a dynamic sensory stimulus that alters the perceptual world for both humans and wildlife. 2. Our goal was to test whether satellite-based measures of ALAN could improve our understanding of the detection process of citizen scientist-reported sightings of a large mammal. 3. We collected observations of American black bears (Ursus americanus; n = 1,315) outside their primary range in Minnesota, USA, as part of a study to gauge population expansion. Participants from the public provided sighting locations of bears on a website. We used an occupancy modelling framework to determine how well ALAN accounted for observer metrics when compared to other commonly used metrics (e.g. housing density). 4. Citizen scientists reported 17% of bear sightings were under artificially-lit conditions and monthly ALAN estimates did the best job accounting for spatial bias in detection of all observations, based on AIC values and effect sizes (β ^ = 0.81, 0.71 – 0.90 95% CI). Bear detection increased with elevated illuminance; relative abundance was positively associated with natural cover, closer proximity to primary bear range and lower road density. Although the highest counts of bear sightings occurred in the highly illuminated suburbs of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan region, we estimated substantially higher bear abundance in another region with plentiful natural cover and low ALAN (up to 275% increased predicted relative abundance) where observations were sparse. 5. We demonstrate the importance of considering ALAN radiance when analyzing citizen scientist-collected data, and we highlight the ways that ALAN data provides a dynamic snapshot of human activity. 31-Jul-2020
For the people by the people: citizen science web interface for real-time monitoring of tick risk areas in Finland
<p>Ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBDs) form a significant and growing threat to human health and well-being in Europe, with increasing numbers of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and Lyme borreliosis cases being reported during the past few decades. Increasing knowledge of tick risk areas and seasonal activity remains the primary method for preventing TBDs. Crowdsourcing provides the best alternative for rapidly obtaining data on tick occurrence on a national level.</p> <p>In order to produce and share up-to-date data about tick risk areas in Finland, an online platform, Punkkilive (www.punkkilive.fi/en), was launched in April 2021. On the website, users can submit and browse tick observations, report tick numbers and hosts, and upload pictures of ticks.</p> <p>Here, we looked at trends in the crowdsourced data from 2021, assessed the effect of local tick species on seasonality of observations, and examined sampling bias in the data.</p> <p>The high number of tick observations (n=78 837) highlights that there was demand for such a service. Approximately 97% of 5573 uploaded pictures represented ticks. Seasonal patterns of tick observations varied across Finland, highlighting variability in the risk associated with the two human-biting tick species <em>Ixodes ricinus</em> and <em>I. persulcatus</em>, the latter having a shorter, unimodal activity peak in late spring–early summer. Tick numbers were low and the proportion of new sightings was high in northern Finland, as may be expected near the latitudinal distribution limits of both species. While the number of inhabitants generally explained the number of tick observations well, geographically weighted regression models also identified areas that deviated from this general pattern.</p> <p>This study offers a prime example of how crowdsourcing can be applied to track vectors of zoonotic diseases, to the benefit of both researchers and the public. Areas with more or fewer observations than predicted based on number of inhabitants were revealed, wherein more specific analyses may reveal factors contributing to lower or higher risk levels that may be used in increasing awareness. We hope that the success of Punkkilive serves to highlight the usefulness of citizen science in the prevention of vector-borne diseases.</p>
T a b l e 1 in Citizen Science Assisted Monitoring Provides New Data Concerning the Distribution of the Bulgarian Bent-toed Gecko, Mediodactylus danilewskii (Gekkonidae, Squamata), in North-East Bulgaria
T a b l e 1. Coordinates of the newly recorded specimens of M. danilewskii in North East Bulgaria
Fig. 2 in Citizen Science Assisted Monitoring Provides New Data Concerning the Distribution of the Bulgarian Bent-toed Gecko, Mediodactylus danilewskii (Gekkonidae, Squamata), in North-East Bulgaria
Fig. 2. Schematic map of the confirmed and new sites of
Improving citizen science data for long-term monitoring of plant species
<p>In 2012, a new volunteer-based recording scheme for vascular plants was launched in the Netherlands. Its purpose is to track the changes in the number of occupied 1-km grid cells for as many native plant species as possible between survey rounds of 8 years. We did not prescribe a strict field protocol to minimize variation in observer effort, but instead chose to statistically correct for this variation with occupancy models. These models require replicated visits to a grid cell per season, which was implemented by having two independent observers survey grid cells and record all plant species observed. Now that a first survey round has ended (2012–2019), we evaluate our approach, i.e. we tested whether the scheme has the potential to produce proper trend estimates. The number of occupied grid cells in the first round was estimated per species, using an occupancy model with day of year, visit duration and observer experience as covariates for detection. The detection probability, which was 0.43 on average, strongly depended on visit duration and day of year. It was possible to estimate the number of occupied grid cells quite precisely for several hundreds of species, such that the statistical power is expected to be high enough to detect changes of 10% between survey rounds. For rare species, however, the power to detect changes is expected to be quite low. We conclude that the approach works well, but further improvements are suggested.</p>
Bird predation on Roseau cane scale as revealed by a web image search and querying a citizen monitoring database
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Data coverage, biases, and trends in a global citizen-science resource for monitoring avian diversity
<p><strong>Aim:</strong> Understanding and addressing the global biodiversity crisis requires ecological information compiled continuously from across the globe. Data from citizen science initiatives are useful for quantifying species' ecological niches and geographical distributions but can be difficult to apply towards biodiversity monitoring. The presence of fixed geographical locations reduces the opportunistic nature of citizen science data, allowing for more reliable and nuanced trend estimation. The eBird citizen-science programs contains predefined locations whose bird assemblages are sampled across years ('hotspots'). For hotspots to function as a biodiversity monitoring resource, issues related to data coverage, biases, and trends need to be addressed.</p> <p><strong>Location:</strong> Global.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> We estimated the survey completeness of species richness at 300,500 eBird hotspots during the years 2002 to 2022. We documented sampling biases at eBird hotspot and non-hotspot locations during 2022 based on protection status, temperature, precipitation, and landcover.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> A total of 10,410 bird species (<em>ca</em>. 96.9% of total) were recorded at hotspots. The number hotspots and the quantity of data and unique participants and quality of species richness estimates has increased worldwide with the Nearctic containing the strongest and most consistent trends. Compared to non-hotspots, hotspots over sampled areas with higher protection status. Hotspots and non-hotspots over sampled warmer and wetter locations in the Antarctic, Nearctic, and Palearctic, and cooler locations in the Afrotropics, Australasia, and the Neotropics. Hotspots and especially non-hotspots over sampled urban areas. Hotspots and non-hotspots under sampled shrublands in Australasia. Hotspots and especially non-hotspots under sampled forests in the Afrotropics, Indomalaya, Neotropics, and Oceania.</p> <p><strong>Main conclusions:</strong> Hotspots have captured a large component of the world's avian diversity but have done so inconsistently across space and time. Data quantity and quality are increasing in many regions, but the presence of sampling biases and spatial uncertainty needs to be addressed when applying the data.</p>
Co-design of a citizen science study: unlocking the potential of eDNA for volunteer freshwater monitoring
<ol> <li>Citizen science is increasingly being promoted as a means of gathering more data to help inform the management of ecosystems. Involving the participants in the design of data collection activities is a form of co-design often proposed by those calling for a translational ecology.</li> <li>In addition, novel monitoring approaches have the potential to improve the quality of data collected by citizen scientists. We explored the potential of environmental DNA (eDNA) for vertebrate (mainly fish) species monitoring through a co-designed catchment monitoring strategy. </li> <li>Having been introduced to the potential of eDNA, citizen scientists designed and executed an eDNA-based survey of a small chalk stream catchment to explore questions of concern.</li> <li>The eDNA monitoring approach provided data about fish and other vertebrate diversity in the catchment which would have otherwise required sampling approaches difficult for citizen scientists. These data give a preliminary answer to some of the citizen scientists' priority questions and are comparable to fish data collected through traditional electrofishing surveys.</li> <li>Recommendations are offered for co-design and the use of novel research techniques by citizen scientists.</li> </ol>
Artificial night light helps account for observer bias in citizen science monitoring of an expanding large mammal population
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