Zooniverse U.S.-UK Planning Meeting: Bringing together Science and Education Teams

OISE 09- 37322 Lucy FortsonAdler PlanetariumThis project supports the travel of five senior staff and three graduate students to伦敦to participate in a Zooniverse planning meeting at the皇家天文台格林威治. Zooniverse建立在银河动物园的成功基础上，银河动物园是一个基于网络的公民科学项目，总部设在英国牛津大学。 会议的主要目的是为项目团队提供动力，将Galaxy Zoo和Zooniverse扩展提升到一个新的水平，并推动公民科学领域向前发展。 公民科学项目就其本质而言，提供了让用户参与鼓励更深入地欣赏和理解科学方法的活动的机会。 为了获得充分的教育潜力，同时最大限度地提高公民科学项目的同行评审科学产出，需要所有的利益相关者？科学家、教育工作者和技术人员？参与并能够交叉沟通、权衡、协作、讨论、阐述和综合他们的需求、客户的需求和能力，以及他们所看到的流程和系统的约束。在Zooniverse发展的这个阶段，科学和教育团队对每个团队达成共识是很重要的。的需求和资源，以便完全建成的Zooniverse将有教育和科学目标无缝集成。该项目将通过广泛的公众参与，推动NSF？发现和教育的双重目标。

OISE 09-37322Lucy FortsonAdler PlanetariumThis project supports the travel of five senior staff and three graduate students to London to participate in a Zooniverse planning meeting at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Zooniverse builds on the success of Galaxy Zoo, a web-based citizen science project based at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. The primary purpose of the meeting is to give the project teams the momentum to take Galaxy Zoo and Zooniverse extensions to the next level and push the field of citizen science forward. Citizen science projects by their very nature provide opportunities to engage the users in activities that encourage a deeper appreciation and understanding of the scientific method. To gain the full educational potential while at the same time maximizing the peer-reviewed science output from citizen science projects requires that all of the stakeholders ? scientists, educators and technologists ? be present and able to cross-communicate, weigh-in, collaborate, discuss, elaborate, and synthesize their needs, the needs and abilities of their customers, and the constraints of the process and system they see. At this stage of development of Zooniverse, it is important that the science and education teams develop a common understanding of each team?s needs and resources so that the fully built Zooniverse will have education and science objectives seamlessly integrated through-out. This project will advance, through widespread public participation, NSF?s twin goals of discovery and education.