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What is a
Citizen Scientist?
Why You Should Become One!
The Ocean Needs You!
Scientists lack sufficient data from the coastal areas. Data that is needed to learn what must be done in order to help the ocean continue to thrive. This is where you come in, the prospect citizen scientist.
A citizen scientist can be anybody willing to contribute to reduce the information gap.
For the marine environment, your ability to make a positive impact as a citizen scientist is large. The scientists are limited by human resource capacity for the vast ocean, and all data that can be collected is necessary for both scientist but also politicians to make well informed decisions for future endeavours.
Cooperation is the only way forward to mitigate the risks of climate change, and you are needed!
How The Citizen Scientist Data Will Be Used
Data collection from non-professionals have a long history, ranging from astronomical discoveries by amateurs to discovering new chemical products. Many of these random citizen discoveries have led to the betterment of the world.
This historic trend needs to continue. The data that you as a citizen scientist collect will be sent to a team of researchers at SMHI.
The data will then be part of mapping the global and local ocean and coastal area temperatures. This will then form a baseline of knowledge for the policy makers and researchers who contribute to well informed decisions and countermeasures.
Personal Growth
Joining a community that is devoted to helping the ocean will enable possibilities to learn and grow as an individual and as a collective.
Citizen science is a two-way street. It helps the scientists and policy makers, but it can also engage the general public in knowledge about their coastal environment, and aid in political decisions that might be the remedy needed for this particular area. The measurements of temperature that you provide can also help you decide if this is a day for a swim, or if that swim can wait for a warmer day. Like we said, a two-way street!
Increase Interaction Between Citizens and Scientists - Create the future generation of scientists
By allowing the younger generation to be non-proffesional collectors of data, we hope to spur some interest in the scientific career and life, or at least the necessity that we all as citizens help each other by doing something as simple as collecting data, for the benefit of both yourself and the ocean.
Integrating human computer integration with data collection
The usage of technology has proven vital to the collection and sharing of data. Enabling data to be shared and uploaded in a simple manner will ease the usage of the devices, and increase relevant data collection. By allowing our users to send their data to our home page, we enable easy access to the data for the users themselves, as well as other interested relevant parties
Gamification
We engage our users by creating a cooperative product. Data can be shared amongst friends and family, local coastal villages and scientist to make a user friendly and cooperative product. This will increase the usage of the product, and increase the chance for more citizen science data to be collected.