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Citizensciencefore Co Lo Gicalmoni To Citizen SCienCe f o r EcologiCal Monitoring in WeStern auStralia 1 Acknowledgements The Conservation Council of WA wishes to acknowledge the many experienced and novice Citizen Scientists who have engaged with the pilot projects and are now part of a growing network. We would particularly like to thank some key participants, Dr Indre Asmussen, Dr Elizabeth Rippey, Dr John Rippey, David Ball and Michelle Crisp. Kim Marrs provided invaluable assistance with the graphics. A Lotterywest grant funded the ‘Citizen Science for Ecological Monitoring Project’ through 2008/09 including the writing and production of this handbook. J.N. Dunlop Citizen Science Co-ordinator Conservation Council of WA Published by the Conservation Council of Western Australia Inc. City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi Street, West Perth, WA 6005 Tel: (08) 9420 7266 Email: [email protected] www.conservationwa.asn.au © Conservation Council of Western Australia Inc. 2009 2 Citizen SCienCe for EcologiCal Monitoring in WeStern auStralia i 2009 ContentS forewOrD Western Australia is home to some of the Preface 2most unique plants and animals on Earth. PART a – Citizen Science for ecological Monitoring 2 From the spectacular rugged red coastline Introduction to Citizen Science 3of the Kimberley to the majestic forests in the south west, our special places are What is it ? 3 a fundamental part of what it is to be a Is it Science? 3 Western Australian. Why ‘Citizen’ Science? 4 For over forty-thousand years, Aboriginal people relied on close observation and Ecological Monitoring 5 a deep understanding of ecosystems to Survey, Surveillance and Monitoring 5 provide for their every need. Over this time, the environment slowly changed in response Monitoring Applications 5 to climatic changes, and human impacts Baselines, Benchmarks and Reference (Control) Sites 6 such as hunting and fire. Bioindicators 7 In the last 200 years the rate of change has dramatically accelerated, with the clearing of Selecting Bioindicators 8 the wheatbelt, urban expansion, industrial Sampling Design 10 pollution, weeds, feral animals, and the recent mining boom. Independent Sampling 10 Adding to these pressures, we are also facing Spatial distribution, frequency and intensity of sampling 11 a global climate change emergency which is The sampling unit 12 projected to have dramatic impacts on our highly adapted species and ecosystems. Sample Sizes 13 One of the greatest challenges we face Planning a Monitoring Program 13 in managing and protecting our unique Discovering or Framing Management Objectives 14 ecology is the lack of understanding of how our ecosystems operate and how they are Dialogue Boxes – Official Sources for Ecological Objectives responding to human pressures. Existing Broadscale Citizen Science Monitoring Projects 4 Investment in comprehensive research Adaptive Management 6 and ecological monitoring has not been a Australian Bird & Bat-banding Scheme 8 priority of governments and as a result, in many cases the best information we have to What’s in a feather? 9 work with has been collected and recorded Seabirds as Ecological Indicators 10 by volunteer members of the community. Ants and Ant Communities as Ecological Indicators 11 At the Conservation Council, we aim to inspire and engage people to help protect Getting permission 14 and look after our special places. Being part Sources of Official Ecological or Biodiversity Conservation Objectives 15 of a Citizen Science project is one of the most powerful ways that you can contribute PART B – Monitoring Plans for the Demonstration Projects 17 to a more sustainable future Preface 17 for our incredible biodiversity. Bush Canaries Monitoring Plan 18 This Citizen Science handbook provides a toolkit for communities to engage Charles Darwin Reserve Climate Change & Biodiversity and co-ordinate their efforts in building Observatory Monitoring Program 26 a better picture of our unique ecology Penguin Watch Monitoring Program 36 and a greater awareness of the need for its protection. Lancelin Island Marine Climate & Biodiversity Observatory Monitoring Plan 42 Piers Verstegen Director, Conservation Council of WA References 46 Glossary 48 About the Conservation Council of WA Inside back cover 1 PrefaCe Citizen science is the term used to describe the many highly skilled, although often unpaid, natural scientists in our community. There exists a variety of manuals on ecological monitoring techniques that describe and advocate the use of bioindicators that may be employed by citizen scientists. However most fail to provide the strategic or management context and basic scientific design that is necessary to plan and implement an effective citizen science program. The Citizen Science for Ecological Monitoring handbook is in two parts. Part A introduces citizen science and the concepts behind monitoring design and sampling, with a focus on the use of bioindicators. Part A also deals with the necessity of designing monitoring programs to address an objective, which may have to be discovered or formulated. The aim at the conclusion of this section is to provide a template for citizen scientists to design, plan and implement an effective monitoring program. In Part B, this monitoring template has been applied to four demonstration projects that were developed through the planning and pilot stages as part of this project. Over 5O citizen-scientists, experts and interested lay-people alike, assisted in the field work that road-tested various methodologies. 2 Citizen SCienCe for EcologiCal Monitoring in WeStern auStralia i 2009 introDuCtion to Citizen SCienCe What is citizen science? Citizen science is research or monitoring conducted by individuals or communities in the interest of the general public. As it is not directed by government or driven by commercial objectives, participants are usually wholly or partly unpaid, although this may not always be the case. For example a community may decide to raise funds independently for a project. Citizen science focuses on research and monitoring programs that governments or businesses can’t or won’t do, perhaps for budgetary, legally defensive or political reasons, but are nevertheless of relevance to local communities or public interest groups. Governments are often averse to resourcing labour intensive and open ended activities such as long-term ecological monitoring. Yet activities of this kind are essential in understanding the actual biological responses to a change in the environment, for example changes as a result of climate change, or to assess the long-term outcomes of biodiversity oriented natural resource management practices and projects. The Conservation Council of WA’s (CCWA) Citizen Science Program is designed to build capacity at the community level and to fill some of the important gaps in knowledge left by our governments, industries and research institutions. Is it science? Scientific investigation is characterised by the systematic reporting of structured, repeatable observations subject to expert peer review. Science is defined by what it is and not by who does it. Research institutions of government and the private sector have the specialised resources and expertise to do many things that are beyond the direct reach of citizen science. However, their research directions are largely limited and controlled by the short – cycle funding priorities of governments and corporations. Long-term tasks such as ecological monitoring are not activities that normally fall within the scope of research programs likely to attract funding to scientific institutions. Academics, in particular, do not look upon monitoring activities as science, resources driven by the electoral and although this has yet to happen in principally because such investigations budgetary cycles. The general response Western Australia. are unlikely to produce major advances in environmental reporting (eg. State in scientific theory. This view is perhaps In practice, most citizen science of the Environment SoE reporting), highlighted by the absence of long-term monitoring programs will operate is to invent low cost substitutes for data-sets or time series, particularly in as partnerships between interested environmental condition based on an Australian context. It is also argued community participants, with varying some existing, albeit remote, source of that monitoring is not science because levels of technical competence, and fully information. The substitute measures it does not employ an experimental trained ‘professionals’ making their employed in the absence of effective bio design. As we will see later in this contribution as citizens, rather than physical monitoring usually provides handbook this is not strictly the case. as employees of agencies, research or little information on incipient change educational institutions or businesses. Natural resource managers are required (ie. that would be useful for providing Retired, semi-retired and under to undertake monitoring to maintain early warning). They record the changes employed professionals and research their decision support system. At that have happened and not the ones students may have a particularly the same time, these agencies have that might or about to happen. Natural important part to play in guiding citizen great difficulty in sustaining long- resource managers would appear to science programs. term monitoring programs as a result have much to gain from an effective of the continuous re-allocation of engagement with citizen science, 3 is motivated
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