Workshop Support: Enhancing Biodiversity Conservation and Environmental Stewardship through Public Participation in Scientific Research (PPSR)

美国自然历史博物馆、康奈尔鸟类学实验室和国家奥杜邦学会正在合作为参与以保护为导向的公众参与科学研究(PPSR)项目的科学家、教育工作者和社区成员组织一次研讨会。PPSR项目通过让志愿者参与大规模数据收集和分析，使志愿者能够进行科学调查，并促进利益攸关方参与决策，有可能推动科学发现。尽管PPSR有潜力，但教育工作者需要了解什么机制最能促进公民科学家志愿者的技能、态度和行为的发展。讲习班参与者将分享经验、经验教训、协议和工具，并制定议程，回答有关通过PPSR活动推进非正式科学教育目标的尚未回答的问题。研讨会的主题包括PPSR项目模型；保护生物学的PPSR数据；保护心理学；将PPSR纳入保护规划；以及公众参与PPSR项目的新兴技术。该项目的目标是(1)加强生物多样性科学的实践，(2)增加生物多样性保护项目的潜力，以满足教育目标，(3)允许科学家进一步参与并为回答大规模研究问题做出贡献，以及(4)为建立更多的公众参与项目做准备，作为博物馆公共项目的一部分。该项目的目标是确定PPSR项目在哪些条件下对生物多样性保护最有用，探索PPSR在鼓励志愿者对自然感兴趣和管理方面的影响，确定将PPSR扩大到新受众的战略和机制，并为PPSR组织者创建一个网络。

The American Museum of Natural History, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the National Audubon Society are partnering to organize a workshop for scientists, educators, and community members involved in conservation-oriented Public Participation in Scientific Research (PPSR) projects. PPSR projects have the potential to advance scientific discovery by engaging volunteers in large-scale data collection and analysis, enabling volunteers to conduct scientific inquiry, and promoting stakeholder involvement in policymaking. Despite PPSR's potential, educators need to understand what mechanisms best nurture the development of skills, attitudes, and behaviors of citizen scientist volunteers. Workshop participants will share experiences, lessons learned, protocols and tools, and develop an agenda for answering still unanswered questions about advancing informal science education goals via PPSR activities. Topics for workshop sessions include models of PPSR projects; PPSR data for conservation biology; conservation psychology; integrating PPSR into conservation planning; and emerging technologies for public participation in PPSR projects. The goals of the project are to (1) enhance the practice of biodiversity science, (2) increase the potential for biodiversity conservation projects to meet educational goals, (3) allow scientists to further engage in and contribute to answering large-scale research questions, and (4) prepare the groundwork for establishing more public participation projects as part of museum public programs. The project's objectives are to identify conditions under which PPSR projects can be most useful for biodiversity conservation, explore the impact of PPSR in encouraging volunteers to become interested in and stewards of nature, identify strategies and mechanisms for expanding the reach of PPSR to new audiences, and create a network for PPSR organizers.