community science
Public participatory research
Community science is research conducted with participation from non-professional volunteers, typically involving data collection on a large scale.
Participants might count birds, report rainfall, photograph wildlife, or track plant blooming times: The community science project mapped light pollution across three states.
The term emphasizes collaborative partnership over earlier labels like "citizen science," which some found exclusionary.
- volunteersUnpaid willing workers
- data collectionSystematic accumulation of facts
- birdwatchingObserving wild avians recreationally
- bird countSurvey of feathered wildlife
- observationAttentive watching or remark
nature walk · fieldwork · monitoring · water quality · participation · hands-on learning · neighborhood · public parks · grassroots · surveys · wildlife · native plants · local · collaboration · counting · recording · nature · biodiversity
community scienceclassified research
Investigation with restricted access
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