Citizen Science 2023
- 15 June 2023
Call for Citizen Science Ambassadors June 2023
The European Citizen Science project is seeking an ambassador to represent citizen science in Ireland. As one of 28 ambassadors you will support the activities of the ECS and raise awareness about citizen science and spread and strengthen citizen science in Europe. The ambassador will support community building and engagement at the national level and work to strengthen citizen science in Europe.
All of the details about the role and how to apply can be found here on the ECS website: https://eu-citizen.science/call_ambassadors/. The deadline is 29th June 2023.
Citizen science is data collection by members of the public to help answer research questions according to the National Biodiversity Data Centre. Women in STEM can contribute to Citizen Science.
Here are some examples of Citizen Science:
- Citizen Science Ireland is an initiative to harness the knowledge gained by practitioners and researchers and involve citizens across the different STEM disciplines in Ireland. It has a number of projects that might be of interest.
- WOW-IE is the Weather Observations Website of Met Éireann and is part of the global WOW network of crowdsourced weather observations.
- Coastwatch Europe runs an annual Coastwatch Survey designed to give an overview of the state of the coast.
- The Irish Wildlife Trust supports citizen science with its People for Bees project.
- If you are interested in birds, then please count your garden birds for the Irish Garden Bird Survey run by BirdWatch Ireland.
- If you're planting trees, think of our pollinators and have a look at Planting Trees for Pollinators from the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan.
The eu-citizen.science website is a platform for sharing citizen science projects, resources, tools, training and much more. Click here for Irish citizen science projects such as the Dragonfly Ireland 2019-2024 project
