Current time at conference location: 8:14 pm MT
Thursday, October 10, 2024 | 9:00 AM MT - 1:30 PM MT
Session Title
Citizen Science in the Era of Big Data
Session Type
Splinters
Room
410 C
Summary
Citizen scientists have discovered most of the known comets and found hundreds of exoplanets. They have counted craters, marked alluvial fans, cataloged vortices, and helped repaint our picture of the asteroid belt. As data rates from NASA missions skyrocket, we'll need their help even more!

This splinter session will feature invited talks by leaders of successful NASA citizen science projects like the Sungrazer Project, Active Asteroids, Jovian Vortex Hunter and also welcome contributed talks on any aspect of citizen science/participatory science. We'll discuss pairing citizen science with AI and machine-learning, citizen science and education, finding funding, co-authoring with volunteers, historically marginalized communities, open science and upcoming big data projects. We’ll brainstorm future citizen science projects harnessing upcoming NASA data about the Moon, Venus, and Near-Earth Asteroids. Join this session and help make planetary science as inclusive as it can be!


Invited Speakers:


Nick Lang (NASA) Citizen Science in NASA’s Planetary Science Division

Marc Kuchner (NASA): NASA Citizen Science Overview and Opportunities

Christine Shupla (LPI): Citizen Science in NASA’s Science Activation Program

Karl Battams (Naval Research Lab): The Sungrazer Project

Rachel Huchmala (Boise State): The SUPERPIG Project.

Colin Chandler (University of Washington) : The Active Asteroids Citizen Science Project

Ramanakumar Sankar (UC Berkeley): The Jovian Vortex Hunter Citizen Science Project

Carson Fuls (University of Arizona): The Daily Minor Planet


Organizers: Karl Battams, Colin Chandler, Carson Fuls, Rachel Huchmala , Brian Jackson, Marc Kuchner, Nick Lang, Ramanakumar Sankar, and Christine Shupla