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This Padlet is now Closed - please access the summary file here and add your feedback

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Theme 7 - Open theme: other key activities

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Theme 7 - Open theme: other key activities

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Improve survey completeness and currency.

Advance data quality and scientific approach.

Improve availability and utility of survey methods and tools.

Better align and standardise survey methods and approaches.

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Theme 3 - Audiences (increasing, diversifying or retaining participants)

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Theme 3 - Audiences (increasing, diversifying or retaining participants)

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Make participation easy, supportive, and rewarding for more people: E.g.

Engaging and motivating more people to participate.

Adapt language and co-develop approaches with communities.

Provide differentiated opportunities and training.

Improve circular feedback, training, and development pathways.

Advance participant diversity through better engagement of underrepresented groups and minorities.

Expand and diversify participation to be more representative of the population.

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Theme 4 - income streams / building the case for citizen science

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Theme 4 - income streams / building the case for citizen science

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Build and broaden the case for investment in participatory studies of ecosystems and natural capital

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Advance the servicing of voluntary participation (the nature and aim of sponsorship and enabling services) that   benefits from coordination with contracted survey services and deployment across the region.

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Theme 6 - Building connections between organisations

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Theme 6 - Building connections between organisations

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Improve cooperation and collaboration between organisations that sponsor or enable voluntary participation in studies of ecosystems and natural capital

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Commission research on grant funding sources for citizen science

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Commission research on grant funding sources for citizen science

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Find out more about the project and how to take part here.

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CLSP Collaborative Action Fund information.docx

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Set project name and use iNaturalist for species observations

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Set project name and use iNaturalist for species observations

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Data platform: WECA will soon have an open data portal to publish CS data and support community data stories

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Data platform: WECA will soon have an open data portal to publish CS data and support community data stories

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Training to understand open \ citizen science data and how to map \ chart and share data.

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Training to understand open \ citizen science data and how to map \ chart and share data.

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Connections supported by orgs and groups using the same tools and metric to support data sharing and analysis to inform collaboration

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Connections supported by orgs and groups using the same tools and metric to support data sharing and analysis to inform collaboration

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Data collection methods need to be simple and designed to minimise risks of user error

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Data collection methods need to be simple and designed to minimise risks of user error

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Get more people involved by running beaver sign surveys over the winter months.

This is an accessible form of surveying as it's easy to teach, can be done by families and from safe footpaths along rivers. It's also a winter activity so helps provide year-round activities and nature engagement.

AWT is currently hold the local beaver records and is keen to be involved with an expanded beaver project being developed.

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Think about methodology and provide incentives

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Think about methodology and provide incentives

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Citizen science heavily relies on the over 60s. This is not necessarily a bad thing in itself, but inadvertently excluding other demographics risks losing out on talent and expertise.

Projects where sampling effort per volunteer is very low are probably the most accessible, but you potentially trade-off data quality. Increasing the diversity of participants (aiming to include demographics whose time is limited/there are greater social/economic barriers to participation) may have to involve greater incentives. These could include discounts at certain shops, CPD credits, prizes etc.

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Working-groups for ecosystems and/or species groups to share best-practice and results

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Working-groups for ecosystems and/or species groups to share best-practice and results

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Barriers to data access for academic researchers and conservation NGOs need to be removed

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Barriers to data access for academic researchers and conservation NGOs need to be removed

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A greater case can be made for CS data if it is more widely used.

Biodiversity data is generated at great expense, but (excluding some datasets on GBIF/NBN) much is inaccessible through record centres that charge a fee. Verification via an academic email address etc. is straightforward. Access for commercial interests can require a fee. Although government-funded, the CEDA archive for climate data is something that we could replicate with biodiversity data.

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The CEDA Archive forms part of NERC's Environmental Data Service (EDS) and is responsible for looking after data from atmospheric and earth observation research. We host over 18 Petabytes of data from climate models, satellites, aircraft, met observations, and other sources.

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Develop a simple methodology for predicting the impact of ash die back disease on hedgerows (basically the number of ash trees in a stretch of hedgerow) - eg in B&NES.  CS element should be straight forward, but the training tools/supporting materials and where best to log the info would be interesting to develop

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Develop a simple methodology for predicting the impact of ash die back disease on hedgerows (basically the number of ash trees in a stretch of hedgerow) - eg in B&NES.  CS element should be straight forward, but the training tools/supporting materials and where best to log the info would be interesting to develop

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Support LERC development of tool to reformat datasets derived from apps such as iNaturalist and MapMate with validation and verification features. This will enable recorders to continue with existing platforms of thier choice whilst mobilising that data for local decision making.

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Support LERC development of tool to reformat datasets derived from apps such as iNaturalist and MapMate with validation and verification features. This will enable recorders to continue with existing platforms of thier choice whilst mobilising that data for local decision making.

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BRERC, Bristol Museum and Bristol Naturalists' Society development of interactive access point for public engagment (Option to expand reigonally).

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BRERC, Bristol Museum and Bristol Naturalists' Society development of interactive access point for public engagment (Option to expand reigonally).

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Enabling interrorgation of environmental data using BRERCs Data Modelling tool, habitat mapping, species distribution data and online recording form. This will be interlinked with specemins and objects within Bristol Museums to provide social and historical context for wildlife recording in the reigon.

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LERC lead forums to bring together place based community groups and specialist recording groups.

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LERC lead forums to bring together place based community groups and specialist recording groups.

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Using the LERCs coordination of and working relationships with the groups, these forums will encourage sspecalist recording groups to assist community groups to set up systematic recording initiatives within thier neighbourhoods.

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Data sharing/amalgamation platform where numerous charities and organisations data are combined. For example river health.

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Data sharing/amalgamation platform where numerous charities and organisations data are combined. For example river health.

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I haven't got a particular project in mind but I think to engage a wider audience there needs to be a strong link between the data that is being collected and the change that could help to deliver. It shouldn't be data for datas sake but focused around a specific cause that can mobilise people.

For the data to be taken seriously and used by decision makers it needs to be viewed as valid and robust so efforts need to go into ensuring that anything collected is reliable. There is nothing worse than spending hours collecting data only for it not to be used for something meaningful.

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Citizen science that informs the actions of societal actors

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Citizen science that informs the actions of societal actors

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Focus on citizen science that has the capacity to change people's daily lives

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More targeted sampling efforts in areas that require them most 

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More targeted sampling efforts in areas that require them most 

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Look into barriers to participation so we can help tackle and remove these

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Look into barriers to participation so we can help tackle and remove these

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Have a clear idea of what would you like to achieve from running a CNC event:

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Have a clear idea of what would you like to achieve from running a CNC event:

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There are lots of reasons for running a CNC (see below), but depending on the reason will depend on how you measure success. For example there have been less sightings over the last 6 years, however, there are more participants. When running a CNC be clear about what is it you wish to achieve so that you can target how you run the event.

More sightings for scientific uses

Get more participants involved so they obtain the benefits

Target sightings to specific species that are in decline so these contribute to data

Diversify participants

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Support to better understand threats facing the water environment

Identify monitoring that measures the impact of these threats

Support for delivering that monitoring in a way that is scientifically robust

Build reputation so that this data is trusted by external agencies

Share learning with others

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Better use/improved validity of data collected as part of the national CS project: Shoresearch (run by the Wildlife Trusts nationally and locally)

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Better use/improved validity of data collected as part of the national CS project: Shoresearch (run by the Wildlife Trusts nationally and locally)

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Better use and accessibility of sea mammal survey data (eg Sea Watch data) - coordinated better across the region (inc photo ID data and strandings data)

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Better use and accessibility of sea mammal survey data (eg Sea Watch data) - coordinated better across the region (inc photo ID data and strandings data)

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Standardise way(s) of using CS collected iNat data and linking to higher level data collected by specialist groups and Record Centres - how to encourage improved taxonomic skills and progression in volunteer/career opps? (involving young people?)

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Standardise way(s) of using CS collected iNat data and linking to higher level data collected by specialist groups and Record Centres - how to encourage improved taxonomic skills and progression in volunteer/career opps? (involving young people?)

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British Trust for Ornithology are working on how to support local monitoring groups with advice on how to complete structured surveys (which offer greater value than unstructured recording) for local monitoring groups, but also infrastructure on where those data be collected, stored, curated, analysed and fed back. We are here to learn more what people might want in these regards, at least in Ornithology.

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Whilst the mapping exercise expressly excludes the local parts of national schemes, knowing what data and outputs are available from existing schemes and how, even at local scales, site/landscape monitoring can contribute to national schemes (especially, WeBS) is important.