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

Oise 09-37322 Lucy FortsonAdler天文馆该项目支持五名高级工作人员和三名研究生前往伦敦参加在格林威治皇家天文台举行的Zooniverse规划会议。Zooniverse建立在银河动物园成功的基础上，Galaxy Zoo是英国牛津大学的一个基于网络的公民科学项目。会议的主要目的是给项目团队动力，使银河动物园和Zooniverse扩展更上一层楼，推动公民科学领域向前发展。公民科学项目本身的性质提供了让用户参与活动的机会，以鼓励对科学方法的更深层次的欣赏和理解。要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议的科学产出，需要所有利益相关者？科学家、教育工作者和技术专家？在场并能够交叉交流、权衡、协作、讨论、详细说明和综合他们的需求、客户的需求和能力，以及他们所看到的流程和系统的限制。在Zooniverse发展的这个阶段，重要的是科教团队对每个团队-S的需求和资源-达成共识，以便全面建成的Zooniverse将教育和科学目标无缝地融合在一起。这个项目将通过广泛的公众参与，推动国家科学基金会和S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.