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# 2024 Ideas-to-Action Sessions
* 2024 Ideas-to-Action Sessions
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## Monday, June 3
**1:40**  **Concurrent Ideas-to-Action sessions**
1. **Extended Q and A with Maui Hudson**
2. **Biodiversity Beyond Boundaries: Setting the stage and making new connections** with Austin Mast, FSU/iDigBio/iDigInfo
   *This session will provide a roadmap for how to engage with the biodiversity strand at the conference and an opportunity to meet others doing similar research.  Bring a smile and a brief introduction!*
3. **Exploring your data challenges and opportunities with the Data and Metadata Working Group,** with Charmel Menzel, ESRI, and Hillary Burgess, NOAA
   Learn from and connect with other data wranglers in this interactive session! The Data and Metadata Working Group invites you to
   * learn from each other’s experiences with data management
   * discover resources to tackle challenges
   * build community connections
   * identify needs that AAPS and the working groups may be able to support
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## Tuesday, June 4
1. 1. 1. **Extended Q and A with select presenters**
      2. **ArcGIS Capabilities from Analysis to Sharing Results** with Charmel Menzel, ESRI
         *Learn how to enhance analysis with location intelligence. Fuse your project data and authoritative demographic, equity (Justice40), imagery, air quality (OpenAQ), infrastructure and environmental data to discover trends and solve spatial problems. The authoritative data is accessed through the ArcGIS Living Atlas, a collection of geographic information from around the world.  Once results are ready, presenters provide options to visualize and share your analytical spatial and non-spatial data in a variety of data formats for staff, decision-makers and the public.*
      3. **Exploring opportunities for benefits to flow from global- to local-scale biodiversity projects and vice versa,** with Austin Mast, FSU/iDigBio/iDigInfo and Dilek Fraisl, IIASA
         *Join leaders from the Citizen Science Global Partnership to discuss   how global activities (e.g., Multilateral Environmental Agreements, data standards, data aggregators) can motivate and inform local-scale activities and how local activities can return value to the global-scale through strategic project design.*
      4. **Optimizing opportunities for learning at participatory science events,** with AAPS Education Working Group
         *Engage in a conversation about practices and protocols for integrating and prioritizing learning* *for any/all ages at participatory science events. We’ll discuss types of events, successful structures, promotion, outreach, activities, follow-up, etc. We’ll cover both local, small events and large, regional efforts.*
## Wednesday, June 5
      2. **Building reciprocity via badges: an exploration of platforms and potential**, with Sarah Kirn, GMRI, and Darlene Cavalier, SciStarter
         *Citizen science projects can offer real-world context in which people of all ages develop new interests and skills. Project leaders are increasingly aware of – and looking for systems by which to implement – the idea of reciprocity. We invite you to join us in an exploratory conversation about how social media platforms like LinkedIn or digital badging systems like Mozilla Open Badges might be used to formalize volunteer/participant recognition at scale. What skills developed in projects have value in career advancement? How consistent across projects would skill assessment need to be? What kinds of systems exist that might serve as models of a verification scheme? We are also interested in discussing whether formal skill recognition could be a meaningful way to compensate and recognize volunteers.*
      3. **Digital tools for biodiversity documentation**, with Austin Mast, FSU/iDigBio/iDigInfo
         *Share your experience with both workhorse and leading-edge tools for biodiversity documentation via participatory sciences with others. What are the three tools or platforms that have most supercharged your research?*
      4. **Participatory Sciences as Open Science,** with Heather Fischer, Oregon State University, Peder Nelson, Oregon State University
         *Undoubtedly, you have heard the term Open Science, and, in fact, 2023 was declared the year of open science. You may have also asked yourself what this term actually means and how it applies to participatory sciences. During this Ideas to Action session, we will host an open discussion about the implications of open science for participatory science programs. We invite you to actively participate in this session by sharing your experiences (good and bad) with implementing open science principles and practices in your program (through open data analysis tools, data ethics, data sharing policies, etc.). If you are new to the idea of open science, we invite you to bring your questions and curiosity. Through this session, we hope to expand and grow our understanding of the state of open science within participatory science and its future implications.*
## Thursday, June 6
**1:45**  **Concurrent Ideas-to-Action Sessions**
1. 1. 1. ****Extended Q and A with select presenters****
      2. **Leveraging awe-inspiring events to connect with audiences**, with Heather Fischer, Oregon State University, Holli Kohl, Globe Observer, Matt Nyman, Oregon State University
         *The 2024 Total Solar Eclipse was a fantastic opportunity for participatory science programs to leverage excitement and curiosity to increase participation and interest in their science. Many programs were explicitly developed to collect data related to scientific questions about the eclipse. In contrast, others engaged in tremendous outreach and engagement efforts to market their programs to new audiences. During this Ideas to Action session, you will hear from participatory eclipse programs about how they used this awe-inspiring celestial event to connect with audiences. We hope this discussion will inspire participatory sciences programs to leverage the excitement around other phenomena and events to increase engagement and participation in their programs.*
      3. **Libraries and Museums as Community Hubs for Participatory Sciences,** with Laura Trouille, Adler Planetarium; Darlene Cavalier, SciStarter; Emma Giles, SciStarter
         *Museums and libraries play pivotal roles in supporting communities, connecting people to resources, and facilitating engagement. An increasing number of libraries and museums are actively engaging the public in participatory science endeavors. Annually, over 170 million registered users visited public libraries over 1.35 billion times and a comparable number engaged in 850 million museum visits so the potential for collective impact is vast. This discussion aims to raise awareness of existing efforts, advance, support, and empower museums and libraries in engaging audiences in participatory sciences, surface potential new collaborations, and support the development of and continued refinement of best practices in these ‘third spaces’ and beyond.*
      4. **Publishing and Sharing Your Participatory Science Work,** with Julia K. Parrish, Community Science Exchange (CSE), and additional members of the CSE Editorial team: Kate Semmens, Raj Pandya, Jean Schensul, and Matt Giampoala
         *The Community Science Exchange (CSE) is a new platform launched to elevate, share, and expand the reach of science performed by, for, and with communities. CSE especially focuses on outcomes of the work, including new knowledge (discovery science) and solutions (actionable science), ranging across all forms of equitably performed participatory science. This session will feature editors from the Community Science Exchange, including the open access peer-reviewed journal Community Science as well as the online case studies and complementary materials portal, the Hub. Come find out how to publish, share, and promote your participatory science!*
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**  Data Ethics** – Refers to trustworthy data practices for citizen science.
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**  Publication Ethics** – Refers to the best practice in the ethics of scholarly publishing.
⚖️  **Social Justice Ethics** – Refers to fair and just relations between the individual and society as measured by the distribution of wealth, opportunities for personal activity, and social privileges. Social justice also encompasses inclusiveness and diversity.
**  Human Subject Ethics**  – Refers to rules of conduct in any research involving humans including biomedical research, social studies. Note that this goes beyond human subject ethics regulations as much of what goes on isn’t covered.
**🍃  Biodiversity & Environmental Ethics** – Refers to the improvement of the dynamics between humans and the myriad of species that combine to create the biosphere, which will ultimately benefit both humans and non-humans alike ]. This is a kind of ethics that is advancing rapidly in light of the current global crisis as many stakeholders know how critical biodiversity is to the human species (e.g., public health, women’s rights, social and environmental justice).
⚠ UNESCO also affirms that respect for biological diversity implies respect for societal and cultural diversity, as both elements are intimately interconnected and fundamental to global well-being and peace. ().
🤝  **Community Partnership Ethics** – Refers to rules of engagement and respect of community members directly or directly involved or affected by any research study/project.
# 2024 CAPS Symposia June 5
* 2024 CAPS Symposia June 5
# Symposia Details:
## Wednesday, June 5th at 12:30 EDT (UTC -4)
## The role of new technologies
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As we continuously work to improve our existing projects and programs, we also need to think about what comes next. New technologies, innovations, and approaches are being implemented to augment and enhance the efforts of volunteer contributors, as well as increasing accessibility to scientific tools and processes. Speakers in this topic area are conducting or planning cutting-edge technology, innovations, or approaches that can challenge and inspire the way that we think about our own practices.
The 2024  (CAPS 2024) will feature multiple speakers on this topic across **two concurrent symposia**, addressing the following questions:
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Both virtual sessions occur on Wednesday, June 5th, at 12:30 pm EDT (UTC -4) and will be open to all CAPS 2024 attendees.
**Wednesday symposia session A:**
## How are new technologies opening up scientific resources for broader use?
This panel will look at how traditionally exclusive scientific processes and equipment are being made available for broader use through open science and open hardware initiatives. Speakers will discuss how their platforms and projects are helping communities to answer their own questions or produce and use their own software and equipment. This symposium will highlight the transformative potential of open science to both improve accessibility, and also reshape the process of science.
**Speakers:**
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> Co-founder of the citizen science wildlife monitoring network, MammalWeb, in operation since 2015.
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> Pen is an advocate for the use of open source technologies in research, including serving in the leadership of the Gathering of Open Science Hardware.
> Callie Chappell is a postdoctoral fellow in bioengineering and policy at Stanford University, where they leads the BIO4E project. Their work seeks to advance biology for everyone by creating publicly accessible labs at the local level, such as in public libraries (LABraries), as well as professional pathways (LABrarians) and curricula for a national community biology training program.
> Julieta Arancio is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University who works with Open Hardware Makers, an organization that provides mentorship, best practices, and a community for those working to create and use openly accessible hardware. She is currently working to understand and produce policy recommendations on how open hardware can transform knowledge production in academia by analyzing the transnational OpenFlexure microscope initiative.
> Greg Austic is an open technology advocate and co-founder and member of Our Sci LLC. The organization’s goal is to support the development of research capacity in communities through hardware, software, and training.
**Wednesday symposia session B:**
## How are new technologies complementing the work of volunteer contributions in participatory projects, and at what cost?
New technologies are augmenting and enhancing the work of volunteer contributions in many participatory science projects which presents new opportunities, but also ethical considerations that must be attended to. Speakers in this panel discuss how new technologies are being used to make data collection easier, projects more engaging, and opening up new ways to meet volunteers where they are at. Gain inspiration for how your project might adapt new technologies to meet your project needs.
> Carrie has worked for iNaturalist since 2018 to connect people to biodiversity through technology and advance science and conservation.
> She has a PhD in ecology and has been professionally involved in participatory sciences since 2009.
> Grant Van Horn is an assistant professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. His work focuses on creating real-world machine learning systems that integrate human expertise, state-of-the-art machine learning methodologies, and large-scale datasets. Past project include Merlin Sound ID, Merlin Photo ID, Seek, and the iNaturalist computer vision system.
> Marisa Ponti is an associate professor in informatics at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research includes topics related to governing the digital transformation and human-centered AI. She is also the editor of the forthcoming special issue in Citizen Science: Theory and Practice on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Citizen Science.
> Attila Szantner is CEO and co-founder of the Swiss citizen science / video game innovator start-up Massively Multiplayer Online Science (mmos.ch), recipient of the Innovation Award of the University of Geneva. Attila has dedicated his last decade to bring scientific research and videogames closer together, setting up major collaborations between academia and the videogame industry engaging almost 7 million players to manifest the enormous potential in games to be a force for good, a benefit for the broader society and a powerhouse to help scientific research.