{"id":28671,"date":"2023-02-23T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=28671"},"modified":"2023-02-23T09:26:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:26:46","slug":"silka-op-ed-in-bdn-citizen-science-can-help-address-some-of-our-most-pressing-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2023\/02\/23\/silka-op-ed-in-bdn-citizen-science-can-help-address-some-of-our-most-pressing-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Silka Op-Ed in BDN &#8211; \u2018Citizen science\u2019 can help address some of our most pressing problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24604 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/09\/Silka-Photo2-3-cropped-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"Linda Silka\" width=\"174\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/09\/Silka-Photo2-3-cropped-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/09\/Silka-Photo2-3-cropped-105x92.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/09\/Silka-Photo2-3-cropped-317x277.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/09\/Silka-Photo2-3-cropped-423x369.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/09\/Silka-Photo2-3-cropped.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/>An Op-Ed by <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/linda-silka\/\">Linda Silka<\/a>, senior faculty fellow at the Mitchell Center, was published on Feb. 21, 2023 in the Bangor Daily News. The Op-Ed focuses on citizen science and how it can help us address some of our most pressing needs.<\/p>\n<p>The article discusses the terms \u201ccitizen science\u201d and \u201ccommunity science\u201d and the reference to important emerging practices in science whereby people immersed in a topic and researchers who study the topic come together. This approach can increase our capacity to study a topic and make the research more relevant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangordailynews.com\/2023\/02\/21\/opinion\/opinion-contributor\/citizen-science-can-help-address-pressing-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full Op-Ed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Op-Ed by Linda Silka, senior faculty fellow at the Mitchell Center, was published on Feb. 21, 2023 in the Bangor Daily News. The Op-Ed focuses on citizen science and how it can help us address some of our most pressing needs. The article discusses the terms \u201ccitizen science\u201d and \u201ccommunity science\u201d and the reference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":611,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":611,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28672,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28671\/revisions\/28672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}