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Citizen scientist networks in the mulder-Spellman labs have involved >1000 participants in >40 communities.
Citizen scientist networks in the mulder-Spellman labs have involved >1000 participants in >40 communities.
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This citizen science project provides data for two different research projects: a scientific study of the fate of fleshy fruits in fall and winter and a learning study of how to best engage the public in research. While many participants are in youth groups that are included in our Arctic Harvest study, others are interested volunteers of all ages. As part of this project we have developed extensive teaching materials for K-12 teachers and other educators.
Data collection is now complete. You can find out what we learned in Mulder et al. 2021.
What do we know about how the species most important to people in Alaska and across the far North will do under rapid climate change? How can resource managers and communities identify which species will thrive, and which will suffer? What actions can people take to ensure a healthy berry future? And what knowledge gaps do we need to fill? The Alaska Berry Futures project aims to provide resources, including easily information easily accessible to community members and semi-quantitative tools for land managers, to ensure a berry-filled world into the future.
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completed projects
completed projects
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The Melibee Project was a citizen science network developed to determine the level of overlap in flowering between two native plants (lowbush cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, and bog blueberry, Vaccinium uliginosum) and a non-native plant (white sweetclover, Melilotus albus) in communities across Alaska. Participants included K-12 classes, parents and children, senior citizens, science professionals, and a range of others.
Data from this project were used to validate a model produced from herbarium data. Read more about this in Spellman and Mulder 2016.
Christa shows a box of bees to children at Potter's Marsh, Anchorage. (Most common questions: "Are they real? Are they dead?").
Katie trains a group of volunteers at the Anchorage Botanical Gardens
In this project participants evaluated the timing of leaf senescence of native and non-native species across Alaska. Most participants were K-12 classes, but the project was also popular with parents and children.
A father and daughter team learn the Browndown protocols; a class collects data.
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