Building the NASA Citizen Science Community

Thursday, June 20, 2019

8:00 am - Continental Breakfast

8:50 am - Paul Hardersen – Welcome & Introductions, Logistics

9:00 am - Mark Sykes, CEO, Institute

Session I. NASA’s Perspectives on Citizen Science – Location: Casa Luna

Purpose: NASA will review the history of its citizen science programs, describe current activities, and outline how the agency would like to improve its programs in the future.

9:15 am - Kristen Erickson, NASA Science Engagement and Partnerships Director

9:30 am - Marc Kuchner, Citizen Science Officer, NASA Science Mission Directorate

10:00 am - Break (Casa Luna Foyer)

Session II. Major Citizen Science Platforms - Location: Casa Luna

Purpose: This session is designed to help NASA scientists leverage the largest and most successful citizen science communities. The session will highlight these programs from around the world, how these programs grew and engaged participants, and how each project has evolved since inception.

10:20 am - Heather Fischer, Oregon State University, GLOBE and GLOBE Observer: Promoting scientific discovery for people of all ages to enhance our understanding of the Earth system and global environment

10:40 am - Pamela Gay, Planetary Science Institute/CosmoQuest, Better Engagement through Better Community: Lessons from CosmoQuest

11:00 am - Laura Trouille, The Adler Planetarium and Northwestern University, Tales from the Zooniverse: Overview and Lessons Learned

11:20 am - Ken-ichi Ueda, iNaturalist, What is iNaturalist?

11:40 am - John Tweddle, Open Air Laboratories (OPAL), Key learning from the UK’s OPAL Network: Connecting over 1 million people with science and nature

12:00 pm - Darlene Cavalier, SciStarter, SciStarter: A global platform to organize, catalyze, support and research citizen science projects, events, tools, and participants 1

12:20 pm - Lunch (Casa Luna Foyer)

Session III. Featured Citizen Science Projects - Location: Casa Luna

2:00 pm - Elizabeth MacDonald, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Reflections of five years of innovative public participation in aurora research

2:20 pm - Meg Schwamb, Hunters/Planet Four, Planet Four: Exploring Mars with 150,000 Earthlings

2:40 pm - Karl Battams, Sungrazers, The Sungrazers Project

3:00 pm - Break (Casa Luna Foyer)

3:30 pm – Cross-Collaboration Session: Part I. Extended discussions with workshop participants. Location: Casa Feliz

5:00 pm - Adjourn.

Friday, June 21, 2019

8:00 am - Continental Breakfast

8:55 am - Paul Hardersen, Welcome & Logistics for Day 2

Session IV. Machine Learning and Gamification - Location: Casa Luna

Purpose: This session will cover recent relevant developments in the human-machine interface.

9:00 am - Zoran Popovich, Center for Game Science, Co-Evolving Human-Computer Symbiosis to maximize quality and scale of outcomes

9:30 am - Lucy Fortson, University of Minnesota. Solving Big Data Problems in Astronomy: Optimizing the Human-Machine Partnership with Zooniverse

10:00 am - Break (Casa Luna Foyer)

Session V. Contributed Talks AM – Casa Luna and Casa Feliz

Purpose: This session is devoted to contributed talks on any topic relevant to citizen science. Attendees will be able to highlight their project, activities, challenges, and ideas, and contribute to the discussion of how to improve NASA citizen science programs.

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Breakout A. Contributed Talks - Location: Casa Luna

10:20 am - Candice Hansen, Planetary Science Institute, JunoCam: Citizen scientists populate Juno's virtual imaging team

10:40 am – Eric Palmer, Planetary Science Institute, PDS - Planetary Science Data – Where to Find It!

11:00 am – Leigh Peake, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Vital Signs: Leveraging Climate Investigations to Build Students' Data Literacy

11:20 am – Padma Yanamandra, Space Science Institute, PACA_Comets as well as Evolution of Citizen Science with The PACA Project

11:40 – Heather Fischer, Oregon State University, Citizen Science Association, Growing Our Family Tree.

12:00 Lunch (Casa Luna Foyer)

Breakout B. Contributed Talks – Location: Casa Feliz

10:20 am – Rob Zellem, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, The Transit Survey

10:40 am – Michael Hartinger, Space Science Institute, Sonification for Heliophysics Citizen Science

11:00 am – Chuck Higgins, Middle Tennessee State University, NASA Radio JOVE Project

11:20 am – Constance Walker, NOAO, Globe at Night: Engaging the Public in Light Pollution Awareness

12:00 - Lunch (Casa Luna Foyer)

Session VI. Contributed Talks PM – Casa Luna and Casa Feliz

Breakout A. Contributed Talks – Location: Casa Luna

1:30 pm - Bill Teng, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (ADNET), Enriching the Twitter Stream - Multifaceted Engagement with Citizen Scientists

1:50 pm - James Acker, NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center, Giovanni - How Citizens Can Put the Data They Collect in Context

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2:30 pm - Marilé Colon Robles, NASA Langley/GLOBE Clouds, NASA GLOBE Clouds: Worldwide Data Challenges

2:50 pm - Noah Newman, Colorado State University, CoCoRaHS: The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network: 20 years of citizen science precipitation measurements

3:10 pm - Patrick Miller, Hardin-Simmons University, Asteroid Discovery Program for Citizen Scientists (IASC)

3:30 pm – Brian Day, NASA Ames Research Center, Fireballs in the Sky: Citizen Science for the Desert Fireball Network

3:50 pm - Break (Casa Luna Foyer)

Breakout B. Contributed Talks – Location: Casa Feliz

1:30 pm - Russ Genet, California Polytechnic State University, Robotic Telescopes, Arrays, and Networks

1:50 pm - Aaron Meisner, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, : Planet 9 Overview

2:10 pm - Patrick Smith, BYW/P9, The Comparative Characteristics of Citizen Science Projects From the Perspective of a Citizen Scientist

2:30 pm - Dan Caselden, Backyard Worlds, WiseView: A WISE Visualization Tool by Citizen Scientists

2:50 pm - Julia Drapkin, I See Change, ISeeChange: Citizen Sourced Climate Change Data for Impact

3:10 pm - Padma Yanamandra, Space Science Institute, TSE 2019 and modification of Citizen CATE to PACA_SolPol (Solar Polarization)

3:30 pm - Steve Silverberg, University of Oklahoma, DiskDetective.org: Finding New Circumstellar Disks with 30,000 New Collaborators

3:50 pm - Break (Casa Luna Foyer)

4 Session VII. Community Feedback and “Where do we go from here?” – Location: Casa Luna

4:15 pm - Collaboration Session Part II: “Interconnecting Our Strengths”

5:15 pm - Adjourn

Saturday, June 22, 2019

8:00 am - Continental Breakfast

8:55 am - Paul Hardersen, Welcome & Logistics for Day 3

Session VIII. The Citizen Science & Student Experience – Location: Casa Luna

Purpose: This session is devoted to student and citizen science presentations on research that has been conducted through different programs. These talks focus on the outcomes and results of student research and citizen science activities.

9:00 am - Brian Warner, Center for Solar System Studies, Palmer Divide Station, Asteroid Research for Citizen Scientists in the ‘Age of the Large Surveys’”

9:20 am - Kalee Tock, Stanford University, Citizen Science with Stanford Online High School: An Automated Approach to Modeling Jupiter's Synchrotron Radiation From Radio Telescope Observations, presented by Peyton Robertson, Connor Espenshade, and Jay Sarva

Calculating Escape Velocities on 75,000 Double Star Systems Using Gaia Data Release 2, presented by Zach Haarz

Looking for Pulsars with the Pulsar Search Colaboratory, presented by Beatrice Millar

10:00 am - Break (Casa Luna Foyer)

10:20 am - Russell Genet, Astronomy Research Seminar & CubeSat astronomy, Citizen Scientists and Students Extending their Research with Ground Robotic Telescopes to CubeSat Telescopes.

10:40 am - Rachel Freed, Institute for Student Astronomical Research, Student Research and Writing for Publication

11:00 am - Robert Buchheim, Society for Astronomical Research, Highlights from the Society for Astronomical Sciences – 2019 5

11:20 am - Carl Pennypacker, Hands-On Universe, Hands-On Universe and Modeling Instruction: Helping Teachers teach with a Modern Pedagogy System Leading to Proliferation of More Scientific Experiences

11:40 am - Dolores Hill & Carl Hergenrother, University of Arizona, Target Asteroids!/Target NEOs! – Citizen Science Opportunities for Amateur Astronomers

12:00 pm - Lunch (Casa Luna Foyer)

Session IX. The Citizen Science & Student Experience – Location: Casa Luna and Casa Feliz (as needed)

1:00 pm - Heather Fischer, Oregon State University, Community Snow Observation

1:20 pm - John Kenney, Concordia University, Rent a magnificent remote robotic eye in the dark night sky: citizen-science-friendly pay-per-view astronomical research at the Great Basin Observatory--imaging, speckle, and spectroscopy!

1:40 pm - Leona Davis, University of Arizona, Engaging Diverse Citizen Scientists: Lessons Learned from Project Harvest

2:00 pm - Break (Casa Luna Foyer)

Session X. How Do We Improve the Student Experience and Build Excitement? Location: Casa Luna

2:30 pm - Open discussion and feedback.

4:00 pm - Adjourn.

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