-- Please forward to potentially interested parties -- Dear Colleagues:
Please consider submitting an abstract to the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting (9-13 December) session entitled: “B056. Public Participation in Scientific Research (PPSR): Contributions to Science, Management, and Policy” Description: There has a recent rapid increase in PPSR programs and projects purported to support scientific discovery and decision-making. This session will focus on the contribution of PPSR to science, as opposed to public education or outreach, with three guiding questions: 1) Can PPSR generate good science, management, and policy outcomes? 2) When and how does PPSR result in good science products or outcomes, and when does it not? 3) How can we ensure that science produced through PPSR results in good resource management and policy outcomes? Presentations will describe successful concrete outcomes or products of PPSR for science, resource management or policy from a variety of disciplines. Context: This session will highlight the value of including the public in the scientific process to inform or contribute to science, management or policy applications or outcomes. The key focus is on real-world examples where citizen science has contributed to science, or decision-making for resource management, or to policy, or where citizen science projects are being designed or implemented in such a way as to maximize their value for these particular applications. Invited speakers: Russell Briggs, SUNY-ESF Theresa Crimmins, U Arizona, USA National Phenology Network Julia Parrish, U Washington, Coastal Obervation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST) Lea Shanley, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Co-Sponsors: Global Environmental Change (GC) Public Affairs (PA) Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences (SI) Conveners: Jake Weltzin USGS and USA National Phenology Network Abraham Miller-Rushing NPS, Acadia National Park Duncan McKinley USDA Forest Service Learn more and submit abstracts at https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/. Abstracts are due Tuesday, 6 August 2013. ***
