A5020378268- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Research Data Management Practices
- Plant and animal studies
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Wikis in Education and Collaboration
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
- Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies
- Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
- Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques
- Attention Economy in Education and Business
- Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Data Visualization and Analytics
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
Smithsonian Institution
2012-2022
National Museum of Natural History
2014-2022
Fremont County Public Health
2019
Novo Nordisk Foundation
2015
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
2015
Marine Biological Laboratory
2015
University of Copenhagen
2015
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
2015
University of Maryland, College Park
2012-2014
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
2007-2009
Online citizen science projects engage volunteers in collecting, analyzing, and curating scientific data. Existing have demonstrated the value of using to collect data, but few reached full collaborative potential scientists volunteers. Understanding shared unique motivations these two groups can help designers establish technical social infrastructures needed promote effective partnerships. We present findings from a study motivational factors affecting participation ecological projects....
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL, http://eol.org) aims to provide unprecedented global access a broad range information about life on Earth. It currently contains 3.5 million distinct pages for taxa and provides content 1.3 those pages. is primarily contributed by EOL partners (providers) that have more limited geographic, taxonomic or topical scope. aggregates these data automatically integrates them based associated scientific names other classification information. also interfaces curation...
Mass strandings of beaked whales (family Ziphiidae) have been reported in the scientific literature since 1874. Several recent mass to coincide with naval active sonar exercises. To obtain broadest assessment surface ship operations coinciding whale strandings, a list global training and antisubmarine warfare exercises was compiled from openly available sources compared by location time historic stranding records. This includes activities navies other nations but emphasizes U.S. because what...
Reliance on volunteer participation for citizen science has become extremely popular.Cutting across disciplines, locations, and practices, hundreds of thousands volunteers throughout the world are helping scientists accomplish tasks they could not otherwise perform.Although existing projects have demonstrated value involving in data collection, relatively few been successful maintaining volunteers' continued involvement over long periods time.Therefore, it is important to understand temporal...
Abstract Traits have become a crucial part of ecological and evolutionary sciences, helping researchers understand the function an organism's morphology, physiology, growth life history, with effects on fitness, behaviour, interactions environment ecosystem processes. However, measuring, compiling analysing trait data comes data‐scientific challenges. We offer 10 (mostly) simple rules, some detailed extensions, as guide in making critical decisions that consider entire cycle data. This...
Citizen science projects increasingly incorporate the motivational affordances of games. However, different user groups that gamified citizen may attract are poorly understood. This project examines how two groups, nature participants and gamer participants, experience Floracaching, a mobile application for science. Both enjoyed were motivated by discovery, education, social interaction; both also competition, but in ways. Gamer desired guidance while preferred autonomy. Nature saw inherent...
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has developed TraitBank (http://eol.org/traitbank),a new repository for organism attribute (trait) data.TraitBank aggregates, manages and serves data organisms across the tree life, including life history characteristics, habitats, distributions, ecological relationships other types.We describe how ingests these in a way that leverages EOL's existing infrastructure semantic annotations to facilitate reasoning corpus interoperability with resources.We also discuss...
Citizen scientists are motivated by a variety of factors to contribute biodiversity data collaborative projects, and these change over time. Initially, citizen tend be their own intrinsic interests. However, for them continue contribute, other necessary motivate them: feedback about contribution, acknowledgement peers, sense belonging community, often more. Culture is known have deep pervasive influence on all aspects our lives, but how does it volunteering in science? Three separate...
Abstract Summary: The association of organisms to their environments is a key issue in exploring biodiversity patterns. This knowledge has traditionally been scattered, but textual descriptions taxa and habitats are now being consolidated centralized resources. However, structured annotations needed facilitate large-scale analyses. Therefore, we developed ENVIRONMENTS, fast dictionary-based tagger capable identifying Environment Ontology (ENVO) terms text. We evaluate the accuracy on new...
Synthesising trait observations and knowledge across the Tree of Life remains a grand challenge for biodiversity science. Despite well-recognised importance traits addressing ecological evolutionary questions, trait-based approaches still struggle with several basic data requirements to deliver openly accessible, reproducible, transparent Here, we introduce Open Traits Network (OTN) – decentralised alliance international researchers institutions focused on collaborative integration...
In this extended abstract, we introduce a field experiment conducted to investigate how online individualized feedback from scientists could influence college students' contributions citizen science. The results show the effects of on increasing participants' varied based working choice and task difficulty.
In the absence of systematic knowledge about characteristics and practices data collections, successful hubs other platforms that support collaborative sharing are unlikely to be designed built. We begin fill this gap by performing an in depth case study a global scientific hub -- Encyclopedia Life which we analyzed organizational-level identities 259 providers developing typology identities, including: Venerable organizations, Repositories, Citizen science initiatives, Social media...
Social network visualization is useful for understanding the complex structure of collaborative efforts such as citizen science projects. It has been widely accepted by social analysts exploring and analyzing networks visually showing their members, relationships among them, behaviors attributes. The strength can be increased even further, incorporating time dimension evolving networks. We analyzed conversation a web platform called Encyclopedia Life using dynamic methods. This paper shows...
Previous CSCW studies on citizen science have focused supporting data collection, rather than sharing among a wider audience. Here we describe the process by which are collaboratively shared individual and organizational social actors. Three sets of collabora-tive efforts essential for enabling to travel through online environments: creating shareable data, assuring quality, setting up partnerships.
Biodiversity information is made available through numerous databases that each have their own data models, web services, and types. Combining across leads to new insights, but not easy because database uses its system of identifiers. In the absence stable interoperable identifiers, are often linked using taxonomic names. This labor intensive, error prone, lengthy process relies on accessible versions nomenclatural authorities fuzzy-matching algorithms. To approach challenge linking diverse...