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Chairs(s):

Erin Bunting, Michigan State University

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Description:

This session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who are engaged in citizen science projects focused on landscape and landform change. Citizen science is a powerful tool for educating the public and can generate spatially and temporally extensive datasets that document regional changes and hazards, such as coastal erosion, drought impacts, and distribution of invasive plants. These datasets extend beyond the capabilities of a single research team and have become an important tool for conducting environmental change research. However, there are challenges associated with coordinating and training citizen scientists as well as ensuring that participants generate high quality datasets that can be incorporated into scientific studies. We seek papers in this session that explore the myriad successes and challenges associated with utilizing citizen scientists to generate landform and landscape change data. Citizen science studies from all environments and disciplines are welcome. Studies that utilize citizen science data to conduct hypothesis-driven scientific research and/or studies that explore the participant benefits associated with citizen science projects are particularly encouraged to submit abstracts to this session.

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