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

OISE 09-37322Lucy FortsonAdler天文馆这个项目支持五名高级职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计划会议。Zooniverse建立在英国牛津大学的一个基于网络的公民科学项目Galaxy Zoo的成功基础上。会议的主要目的是为项目团队提供动力，将银河动物园和动物宇宙扩展到下一个层次，并推动公民科学领域向前发展。公民科学项目就其性质而言，提供了让使用者参与鼓励更深入地欣赏和理解科学方法的活动的机会。为了充分发挥教育潜力，同时最大限度地提高公民科学项目的同行评议科学成果，所有利益相关者都需要参与其中。科学家、教育家和技术专家？出席会议并能够交叉交流、权衡、协作、讨论、详细阐述和综合他们的需求、客户的需求和能力，以及他们所看到的过程和系统的约束。在Zooniverse开发的这个阶段，科学和教育团队对每个团队都有一个共同的理解是很重要的。因此，完全建成的Zooniverse将把教育和科学目标无缝地整合在一起。通过广泛的公众参与，该项目将推进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.