Two interviews today, one with Fraser Carpenter, a citizen scientist who monitors pine martens in Newfoundland, near Terra Nova National Park, and the other with Shawn Carlson, a MacArthur ‘genius’ fellow in Chicago who left academia (he has a PhD in nuclear physics) sixteen years ago to found the Society for Amateur Scientists (I also [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Today: two kinds of expert
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cabinets of wonders
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Citizen science is of course a poorly or variously defined concept, and so many different endeavours could be considered citizen science. So far I am finding two large categories of what is called citizen science. The greater of them is that of projects promoted and headed up by an organization with professional scientists providing leadership. [...]
New blogger blinded by all the science
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am actually a little tongue-tied. I’m working on finishing my citizen science article for Canadian Geographic. It was basically done last week but I am waiting for responses from the Canadian government–Environment Canada–to questions they didn’t answer in the written responses they sent to my interview questions (they told me there was no real live [...]
Last interviews for Canadian Geographic
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This is the last week of interviews I’m conducting with citizen scientists for an article on citizen science for Canadian Geographic magazine. If a head cold that has me sounding (to myself at least) as though I’m under water doesn’t stop me, I’ll be calling Nunavut, Nova Scotia and northern B.C. It’s not just geographic [...]
