Science Website Features Citizen Scientists Project

The science website science 2.0 carried a feature article about the Acadia Learning Project, a collaborative program involving the University of Maine, Maine Sea Grant, Sen. George J. Mitchell Center and the Schoodic Education and Research Center Institute (SERC) at Schoodic Point, which engages thousands of Maine school children and teachers to serve as citizen scientists to educate students about the scientific process while collecting useful ecological data for researchers. An article about the project by Sarah Nelson, a graduate student and researcher at the Sen. George J. Mitchell Center and Maine Sea Grant, Molly Schauffler, research professor with the UMaine Climate Change Institute and Center for Research in STEM Education, and Bill Zoellick of the Schoodic Education and Research Center Institute, reports that the experiences have been successful. The article, “Participatory science and education: bringing both views into focus”, appears in the August 2012 issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

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