The Method Section: Using Citizen Science

00:00 – Introduction

01:09 – Pros and cons of citizen science

04:58 – Local citizen science

06:47 – Creating a citizen science project and reducing poor data collection

12:29 – Non-local citizen science

16:25 – Key takeaways

18:14 – Ending and outro

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Episode Description

This week on The Method Section, Tom discusses why citizen science can be so useful to certain project types, he breaks down the inner workings of both local and non-local citizen science and provides a quick guide on the viable ways and options available to you if you wanted to create your own citizen science project. Check out iNaturalisteBird and uBiome. Music by: Joakim Karud – https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud.

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