Abstracts due 5 August 2015.

The traditional method of outreach to formal, informal, science and non-science audiences has undergone a fundamental change with recent advances in technology, social media and crowd-sourced data, giving way to citizen science with many applications. With increasing “Big Data” projects, active partnerships between professional, amateur and data scientist communities are necessary. Innovative design, sustainability and evaluation of these projects is as important as the citizen science they generate. This session invites papers from scientists, educators and as well as those who design, facilitate, evaluate or fund such programs. Topics may include methodology, applications of citizen science to enhancing outreach, transformative approaches to science education, lessons learned, and the future of citizen science. Presentations are invited from all scientific disciplines: astronomy, planetary and space science, geology and
geophysics, seismology, biogeoscience, atmosphere and ocean sciences.

Primary Convener:

Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher
Space Science Institute
Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Convener:

Constance E Walker
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Tucson, AZ