A New Dawn for Citizen Science

Overview

Journal Trends Ecol Evol

Specialties Biology
Environmental Health

Date 2009 Jul 10

PMID 19586682

Citations 264

Authors

Jonathan Silvertown

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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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