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2014 Spring | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration

The Ideal Citizen Science Program

Student(s):

An Ren Tan

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Joleen Palmer

Partner(s):

  • Stillwaters Environmental Center

Faculty advisor(s):

Jason Toft, Professor of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, University of Washington

During my internship, I created a Microsoft Access database as a framework to organize the photo log that Stillwaters Environmental Center had accumulated since it’s establishment. I also conducted a survey for Stillwaters Environmental Center with some expert scientists in their field to determine the effectiveness and perception of the protocols adopted by this citizen science organization.
This was to determine how credible was the data collected by this organization and whether it was of a high enough quality to publish in a scientific journal.