The University of Arizona

Geocaching for Ecological Assets: An Interactive Citizen Science Primer

Start time: 11/13/2010 - 10:30am
11/13/2010 - 11:30am
Location: 
Biosphere 2

 

November 13, 2010; 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Geocaching for Ecological Assets: An Interactive Citizen Science Primer

Kristin Wisneski
Biosphere 2 Science and Society Fellow
School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Want to be a citizen scientist? Come and learn how to get started and test out your observation skills on a specially designed Ecological Asset Mapping course at the Biosphere 2. Together we will learn why citizen scientists and the observations they make are so important for understanding the environmental changes going on in our big world. Geospatial tools like GPS can help with recording the location of our observations in nature, so we will spend the second half of this session searching out eco-treasure using a GPS receiver while learning about the Southwest ecology outside the Biosphere 2.

 

http://www.b2science.org/b2/program-scisat.html