This year Boulder County Nature Association’s (BCNA) annual spring ecosymposium focuses on citizen science. Birders are invited to join us on Saturday, March 18, 2017.
*Finding the Science in Citizen Science: Front Range Environments* This year's ecosystem symposium will address the potential and limitations of citizen science for understanding environmental problems and engaging people in environmental observations. The program will feature citizen science projects with local involvement and high relevance for Front Range ecosystems, such as BCNA’s work with Boulder County to monitor breeding populations of locally threatened bird species. On the national level, featured speakers include Chris Wood, Assistant Director of Information at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology where he leads a variety of projects including eBird, and Waleed Abdalati from CU Boulder, who will be hosting the PBS TV series, “The Crowd and the Cloud,” on PBS this spring. We’ll also feature lightning talks, posters and info tables for projects seeking to recruit citizen science volunteers. The final panel, moderated by Greg Newman, founder and director of CitSci.organd a research scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University, will take a broad look at the challenges of citizen science efforts for both the ‘citizen’ and the ‘science’ parts of the work. The ecosymposium will be held March 18th from 9 am-2:30 pm at the University of Colorado Boulder, Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex (SEEC), 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder CO 80303. BCNA will offer a simple lunch - please make a donation, and bring your own plate, cup and flatware to reduce waste - or you can bring your own lunch. For more information: http://bcna.org/ecosymposium.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/05973002-8d1d-4167-a6bd-2314e69d8f53%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
