The problem with delineating narrow criteria for citizen science

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523; jeremy.auerbach@colostate.edu.
² Biology Department, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617.
³ School for the Future of Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287.
⁴ Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.
⁵ Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
⁶ Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
⁷ Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa.
⁸ Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, 14473 Potsdam, Germany.
⁹ Ecohydrology Department, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, 12587 Berlin, Germany.
¹⁰ Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.
¹¹ Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison, WI 53707.
¹² Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.

Comment

Jeremy Auerbach et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019.

. 2019 Jul 30;116(31):15336-15337.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1909278116.

¹ Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523; jeremy.auerbach@colostate.edu.
² Biology Department, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617.
³ School for the Future of Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287.
⁴ Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.
⁵ Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
⁶ Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
⁷ Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa.
⁸ Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, 14473 Potsdam, Germany.
⁹ Ecohydrology Department, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, 12587 Berlin, Germany.
¹⁰ Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.
¹¹ Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison, WI 53707.
¹² Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Reply to Auerbach et al.: How our Opinion piece invites collaboration.
Heigl F, Kieslinger B, Paul KT, Uhlik J, Dörler D. Heigl F, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Jul 30;116(31):15338. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1909628116. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 31363075 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Opinion: Toward an international definition of citizen science.
Heigl F, Kieslinger B, Paul KT, Uhlik J, Dörler D. Heigl F, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Apr 23;116(17):8089-8092. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1903393116. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 31015357 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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