Volunteer Monitoring
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Comparing volunteer and professionally collected monitoring data from the rocky subtidal reefs of Southern California, USA.
Volunteer-based citizen monitoring has increasingly become part of the natural resources monitoring framework, but it is often unclear whether the data quality from these programs is sufficient for integration with traditional efforts conducted by professional scientists. At present, the biological and physical characteristics of California's rocky reef kelp forests are concurrently monitored b...
متن کاملChina Air Pollution Study Based on Volunteer Monitoring Stations
Recent air pollution incidents in Chinese cities prompted this study, which makes use of air particulate monitoring information being submitted by volunteer-owned equipment to a public website. As an indicator of severe air pollution spikes, such as those seen in February 2014, the daily average readings for all monitoring locations were mapped and animated as a time series. Figure 1: China air...
متن کاملIndividual- and community-level impacts of volunteer environmental monitoring: a synthesis of peer-reviewed literature
Citizens have long contributed to scientific research about the environment through volunteer environmental monitoring programs. Their participation has also resulted in outcomes for themselves, their communities, and the environment. This research synthesizes 35 peer-reviewed journal articles that reported such outcomes through 2012. This collection of articles was derived from a pool of 436 p...
متن کاملAdvantages of volunteer-based biodiversity monitoring in Europe.
Without robust and unbiased systems for monitoring, changes in natural systems will remain enigmatic for policy makers, leaving them without a clear idea of the consequences of any environmental policies they might adopt. Generally, biodiversity-monitoring activities are not integrated or evaluated across any large geographic region. The EuMon project conducted the first large-scale evaluation ...
متن کاملSustainability of a long-term volunteer-based bird monitoring program
With an increasing demand and reliance on volunteers in a host of different sectors, the need for organisations to understand motivating factors behind volunteering, and how to retain volunteer services, is crucial. This paper examines the recruitment, retention and attrition among a group of volunteers participating in a long-term monitoring program for the critically endangered orange-bellied...
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