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posted 3 Apr 2001 in Volume 4 Issue 7
Making use of scenarios
From the vague to the concreteScenarios can help organisations achieve 'competence' a prerequisite for survival in the knowledge economy. Oliver Sparrow offers a glossary of the various meanings applied to scenario planning and describes how best to use them in the quest to teach your business how to learn.
Much more is said about scenarios than done with them. Further the word is used in many senses. The military for example focuses on one set of ideas while policy planners apply another. This article offers a glossary in order to sort out these distinct meanings.
This article has not been written in order to add to the existing pile of analysis. It focuses on one particular type of scenario planning and assesses how this set of tools fits into the general needs of the organisation. The Chatham House Forum has worked extensively with the private and public sector and what follows is drawn from the experience we have gained from this.
Competence and the knowledge economyPsychologists use the term 'competence' to imply the presence of three qualities in an individual or group. First the competent believe that they have insight into how their operating environment works. Second they have a relatively unambiguous set of goals (and a well-defined list of situations to avoid). Third they are socially and practically empowered to act as a consequence of their oversight and in pursuit of their goals.
Societies individuals groups and organisations may all possess competence or lack it. Arriving at competence is a negotiated non-linear social process where ways of speaking and patterns of relationship and experience gradually crystallise into something recognisable evolving and actively helpful. The possession of competence is the prerequisite of the much-lauded 'empowerment' that flat partner-seeking organisations seem to require. People in such an organisation know what will play how to talk about possibilities and with whom to talk; they know the bounds to their personal discretion and they are able to recognise a good thing when they see it. Competent organisations are often said to have a 'strategy' but only insofar as this is a pattern of dispersed understanding and relationships and any attempt to write it all down invariably ends in banality.
The OECD estimates that around half of all business output currently consists of patterns of knowledge. This will grow considerably in the next two decades not least as the framework of co-existence legal obligation and regulatory constraint becomes more complex.
Complexity arises both from the number of things that have to be taken into account and the speed at which events occur and assumptions are undermined. Connectivity and speed are guaranteed features of the future.
- All of the electronic communication channels in 2000 be they radio or TV Internet or fax voice communications or automated data transactions will by 2020 occur in a single second given current rates of growth.
- In parallel US firms now outsource somewhere in the order of half of all their essential activities. The consequence - and the roots of the rapid rise in B2B commerce - is the creation of something quite new. The economies of the industrial world can be seen as a vast toolkit where individual firms (as well as state agencies and other actors) serve as components. Those who wish to access this toolkit have to work in partnership and do so not merely at the level of the technical specification the signed contract and the routine process but around issues of options potential and strategic direction. It is not hard to see why this too will become more developed and more complex as the new century evolves.
The people who must oversee and systematise this complexity are not a special cadre but all of the professionals who are working in a given network. Such networks sprawl across boundaries of ownership and responsibility command and culture timeframes and interest. At issue is the means by which all of this can be synchronised. The means to approach this are an important flavour of the overall cuisine currently in development under the heading of 'knowledge management'. Scenarios are a powerful spice in this set of recipes.
Two basic questionsIt is reasonable to ask what scenarios are to do in this context and how this is to be done. It is however less straightforward to separate the 'what' from the 'how' in practice. What follows has a degree of artificial purity therefore which is always missing from real projects.
What is scenario planning to do for the organisation?
Scenario planning can help an organisation to competence. It does this in three ways.
- Process invariably confers legitimacy. If a project is underway with a high level reporting point at the end of it then the thoughts that it surfaces have a validity that they somehow lack when developed in isolation.
- Second these legitimised thoughts have a particular flavour to them. They assess and define the broad issues and the important systems that are at play. Scenario work that is done well will offer an organisation a structured model of what matters to it and what does not. The resulting insight when communicated through the organisation organises the heterogeneous heap of bullet points that reside in most managerial heads ranking issues for their urgency and impact. It points up continua. Important variables can take on a range of values temporarily unique for each actor. If an organisation can define the variables that underpin its operating environment then it has defined the key sources of uncertainty. If it is possible to pin down the key operating variables then competitive positioning is given a meaningful structure. If it is feasible to define the key dimensions along which choice can be exercised then the options of the organisation are laid out on a map clear for all to see. This is why a matrix - mapping two independent dimensions - is such a useful tool.
- Third artefacts that capture structured understanding in this way fall out of the scenario process whether by fortune or design. The scenarios themselves are of course just such artefacts. Naturally they offer a story of the world with several outcomes. In naïve organisations the aim may be to raise awareness of the scope and speed of change. In habituated enterprises however the scenarios deliver a way of thinking about the world where the key dimensions that matter to the enterprise are pointed up by the relative balances placed on these in the scenarios: For example that retailing will loom larger in national consciousness or less; car-based travel will continue to dominate or will be supplanted by age and environmentally-focused alternatives. Where the model is collective - where it reflects the considered views of the organisation as a whole - then this insight is a key source of organised simplified understanding. People note what matters and what does not. The 'strategy' of the organisation is given a context and the options which flow from this develop naturally. People are sensitised to what might be welcome and what might take the organisation forward and they have a familiar framework of ideas and terminology within which to tell others what they have found. The organisation has attained competence and the people within it can meaningfully be said to be empowered.
Scenario planning is something of a misnomer. Organisations need to understand what they are about. Internal complexities may present options. The outside world may be poorly understood and is anyway changing. Each of these presents options to the prepared mind. In almost every organisation of any size such options have to be surfaced through a collective process rather than an individual one. It is all too complex for a single person to oversee steer or change. The processes of gaining understanding of defining areas of vagueness and uncertainty or arriving at options and action are therefore collective. What is required is teams of wilful professionals who inhabit the companies in the knowledge economy to synchronise their efforts and pool their understanding. Often this has to be done across boundaries of ownership responsibility time-spans and interest.
How is scenario planning to be done so as to fulfil these roles?Ideas are being taken from the realm of the cloudy to the specific. People are being engaged from across boundaries within and beyond the organisation. Nobody is strictly in control of this yet what emerges from it will cause change affect interest and subvert the establishment.
If it does not do this then it will have failed. To achieve these ends negotiation of permission to act is required. It requires design organisation and oversight. The outcome needs to connect with conventional resource allocation procedures to internal and external communications and to the means by which innovation is fostered and people are trained selected and rewarded. This is in brief the new approach that is needed to management in the knowledge economy and not 'scenario planning' as a separate entity. Achieving scenarios in isolation without a vestige of these connections is as useless as an electronic widget developed in advance of its software or indeed with batteries not included.
Here then is a six-step check-list which seems to answer these needs. New practitioners will need to start with a project in which they can demonstrate their utility and then spiral out to broader things. That is not to say that they do one step in the checklist - to develop scenarios on an away-day and then hide them away in a filing cabinet for example - but rather that they complete the entire process for an isolated non-critical part of the organisation.
Step One: Designing the processThe design process asks three questions: What are we producing and for whom? What is the time frame for this development and how will the management for whom we are doing this oversee and feel safe with this process? What resources will we need for all six steps?
The first question is the most important to negotiate. A good end product is as follows.
- To have achieved an agreed view of the workings of the internal and external environment of the organisation as this pertains to change.
- To have embodied this in some form of communications material ('scenarios' but also 'options'?).
- Crucially to have defined what knowledge lacking but which is needed in order to take better choices and to have defined who is to be responsible for getting this.
- To have suggested a link between the formal outcomes and the formal decision-taking processes. Premises on which numerical planning are to be run can be given sensitivity ranges. Key ideas in the scenarios are a part of the formal evaluation process. It is however important not to bureaucratise or otherwise vitiate the ideas that are involved in order to fit in with the necessary counting of beans.
Many middle managers make the mistake of developing scenarios in isolation and then looking for someone to whom to 'sell' the outcome. This is a mistake for two reasons. One is the self-evident issue of 'who ordered that?' The concerns of middle management may strike few chords elsewhere. Stronger outcomes may be seen to usurp senior management function. The other issue is that of gaining co-operation from line staff whose resources and attention are being sought for seemingly peripheral matters.
Senior management imprimatur is most easily gained when the process that is proposed appears to answer to central concerns seems likely to deliver tangible outcomes and appears open to oversight and control. A realistic and costed plan is a sine qua non complete with management review points. The product should be defined: A set of research priorities set by the management team scenarios or options for the organisation a product aimed at the outside world. A very useful product for some organisations is an innovation workshop aimed to get suppliers or collaborators to look ahead in a complex world and dream 'what might be'. Shareholders too enjoy a management that shows competence and oversight and which is prepared to share some of this with them.
Agreement to act needs to come with directions to the organisations: That they should collaborate that collaboration will look as follows that the outcome will affect them in one way but not in others which they might dread. A strong team needs to be assembled; strong in the sense of being representative of the knowledge base strong in the sense of carrying weight internally strong in the sense of being dedicated to the task. A project of this sort takes considerable effort. Too much part-time working slows the process and weakens the insight. Discussion across a team on the corporate intranet will not alone deliver the goods. The process needs a manager who is responsible for time management resources and ultimate content.
Step Three: Developing the modelThose who give permission also need to recognise the outcome and to see themselves in it. Closed management teams may use common words in obscure ways. (The author was puzzled by reference to 'handling exposure' in one organisation by which the management team meant the exact opposite: 'Attain complete secrecy'.) The scenario team need to inform themselves with these idiosyncrasies and with current pre-occupations if only to reference and then ultimately to discount these. To fail to do so is to be seen to be 'out of the loop' and therefore of no account. Interview techniques are very helpful in achieving this insight and ownership. Who is to be permitted such exposure may however set important parameters as to who can be invited to join the team.
These preconditions having been met the team operates in three phases. In the first of these they define what seem to them to be the key areas of concern. This list will vary with the specific issues that face the organisation but examples of sufficient breadth might be technology industry structure customer interests international relations and law or shareholder expectations. Consider what a study commissioned by - let us say - the car industry might have made of these topics as seen from 1980 looking to 2000. Today's list would however likely be stronger on issues that focus on customers partners knowledge and its husbandry than upon the relatively well-understood factors that governed change in the past twenty years.
The second phase is now commissioned. Each topic is constituted as a separate team with a formal leader membership a remit and a reporting date. The aim is to understand the topic as it pertains to the organisation over a relevant time frame. A good interval of time is two-and-a-half product life cycles in commerce or the equivalent administration periods in government. Too long an interval makes 'anything possible' while to short allows current pre-occupations to undermine concern with structural change. Teams may consist of the scenario group wearing a different hat at each thread with some occasional outsiders but would ideally be made up of completely new people headed by or reported by a scenario team member.
The third phase develops as these teams report. In essence the team take what has been learned and synthesise this. They are looking for the key dimensionality a concept that was explored above. They sort factors that are going to change no matter what from contingent features. For example we shall have better telecommunications by 2020 than we have now. We shall have more old people in the West and more educated people everywhere. A giant meteor strike might invalidate these assumptions but for practical purposes it is more helpful to see them as predetermined than as variables. It is often the case that these alone define a world so different that little more need be said. However scenario variables might be that - let us say - an industry's future will be dominated by scale or by niche market presence. This might be achieved by financial engineering or alternatively by primarily technological and marketing brilliance. The four quadrants that this suggests point to at least several alternative futures options sets of risks for the organisation.
This is an iterative creative process whereby a structure is gradually developed from an uncertain cloud of disconnected concepts. Many ideas will fail and many corporate preoccupations will be seen as parochial ill-defined or ill-considered.
Step Four: Exposure and redesignThese ideas in draft form and with some supporting material must be exposed to those who have the right to veto them. This step often becomes a short cut back to the drawing board for the team. Indeed teams can become introverted and obsessive just like management teams!
Once there is general consensus as to the way forward it is helpful to try the basic ideas out on representatives of very distinct perspectives: Other nationalities union officials customers suppliers practitioners regulators and the regulated. Their views will show up the parochial and the inadequate.
Step Five: Finalising the product building the mediaIt is important to keep in mind what a successful outcome would 'look like': A series of coffee mornings or a website a board presentation or a strategy document a glossy publication aimed at analysts or a set of guidelines for project planning and budget approval. It may be that all of these are required or none.
Step Six: Promulgation and winnowingThe aim of scenario (or any) planning should be to attain competence in the sense used earlier. This requires three minimal products.
One of these is a board level presentation to be cascaded down the organisation. This should have high production values should show that it is embedded in fact and should display 'joined-up' thinking. That is to say those emerging from such a presentation should feel privileged to have attended should have a new insight on the world and should feel confident in the analysis.
The second product consists of feedback both immediate and over time. That is people should have the opportunity to take the ideas and try them on for size. A workshop should end up with a product such as a prioritised list of things to find out or investigate with a group agreeing to become involved and someone taking responsibility for bringing this together. There should be something beyond the satisfaction of creative enthusiasm to reward them for doing this.
The third product is often the most contentious. It consists of the means by which scenario thoughts are to be embedded in the appraisal and approval process. In human resource terms succession planning should take account of the world(s) that the scenarios anticipate. Annual appraisal parameters should be designed around the similar features. In project terms the management team should expect projects that came before it to at least nod at the scenario variables: Thus 'social responsibility' so 'continual re-engineering'. Project economics should be assessed against scenario-consistent ranges: For margins tax take economic growth pension funding customer loyalty. Such variables should ideally be negotiated by and with the scenario team thus giving them real power in the organisation and thus making their product of genuine interest.
Organisations that practice scenario planning may expend considerable effort on a book (or a positive library of books) on websites and the like. These are evidently a good thing to have but they do not substitute for legitimacy for workshops for embedding in the decision process and above all for good ideas.
The boiling down of all of the complexity and muddle of real life into a set of simple ideas is hugely empowering. One hears managers saying that this or that would never work under 'market quickstep'. Scenarios are helpful in that they capture the key variables and describe recognisable end-states that these might reach. It is important to keep the number of scenarios small (never ever more than three of them) and to give them memorable names. These become a litmus paper which the organisation uses to test new ideas. One had best be right in one's analysis.
All of this exposure and debate is an important source of information for the next round of scenario planning. The world does not stand still and former works of genius stand idle on the shelf. Scenarios need to be renewed on a two-to-three year cycle. Typically new work will not discard what has been done but will build upon it. Presentations develop a growing body of understanding within the organisation something which is inalienable by outsiders and which confers real advantage. The organisation has learned how to learn.
Oliver Sparrow is the director of the Chatham House Forum. He can be contacted at: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Ten May Citizen Science Projects to Help You Spring Forward
By Lily Bui May 6th, 2013 at 4:49 pm | Comment
Spring has sprung! Citizen scientists like you can now shed your winter layers and say hello again to the great outdoors. Here are ten projects that can help your appetites for citizen science blossom along with the flowers this season.
Track, report, and follow the spring hummingbird migration to understand how hummingbirds are impacted by climate change. The Audubon Society needs citizen scientists to follow the spring hummingbird migration in real time. A free mobile app makes it easy to report sightings, share photos and learn more about these remarkable birds. You can participate at any level – from reporting a single sighting to documenting hummingbird activity in your community throughout the life of the project!
Although it spans three countries and has been documented since the 1880s, North American dragonfly migration is still poorly understood, and much remains to be learned about migratory cues, flight pathways, and the southern limits of overwintering grounds. Become part of an international network of citizen scientists and help monitor the spring and fall movements of the 5 main migratory species in North America, or report on these species throughout the year at a pond or wetland of your choice.
Collect microbes from stadiums, cell phones and shoes! Project MERCCURI is an investigation of how microbes found in buildings on Earth (in public buildings, stadiums, etc) compare to those on board the biggest building ever built in space – the International Space Station (ISS). Your samples will be mailed to the University of California Davis where they will be sequenced and analyzed. Results will be shared on SciStarter so you can compare your samples to those from other locations, including the International Space Station! In addition, up to 40 samples will be selected to fly on the International Space Station where their growth rates will be compared to their counterparts in the UCDavis lab! Wouldn't it be cool if your sample is sent to the International Space Station!?
WNYC Radio invites families, armchair scientists and lovers of nature to join in a bit of mass science: track the cicadas that emerge once every 17 years across New Jersey, New York and the whole Northeast by building homemade sensors and reporting your observations. Magicicada Brood II will make its 17-year appearance when the ground 8″ down is a steady 64° F. Help predict the arrival by planting a homemade temperature sensor in the ground and reporting your findings back to to WNYC. Your observations will be put on a map and shared with the entire community.
Help researchers better understand relationship between dogs and owners! The Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab in NYC is investigating the different ways people and dogs play together, and we need your help (well, you and your dog's help). We are cataloguing all the ways people play with their dogs and asking dog owners to submit short videos of their own dog-human play. By participating in Project: Play with Your Dog, citizen scientists are providing valuable information into the nuances and intricacies of our relationships with dogs.
Help scientists understand changing climates in your area by making regular observations of your plants! Project BudBurst, a NEON citizen science program, is a network of people across the United States monitoring plants as the seasons change. We are a national field campaign designed to engage the public in the collection of important ecological data based on the timing of leafing, flowering, and fruiting of plants (plantphenophases). Project BudBurst participants make careful observations of these phenophases. We are interested in observations from five plant groups – deciduous trees and shrubs; wildflowers and herbs; evergreens; conifers; and grasses. To participate, you simply need access to a plant.
By just taking photos and observing spiders, you can help the Explorit Science Center learn about which climates certain spiders live in and track the distribution of spiders over time. Join the Explorit's Community Science Project by finding and recording spiders in your home or neighborhood (as many as you can!). Use your camera or smart phone to take a photo of the spider and submit it online to add to our geographical database.
8. SciSpy
Spy on nature, and contribute to science. Share photos and observations through SciSpy and you're contributing to research initiatives that rely on amateur participation. Created by Science Channel (Discovery), SciSpy enlists paticipants to document the natural world of their backyards, parks, cities, and towns. Photos and observation data are tagged and stamped with date, time and location information and will hopefully provide helpful information to track migrations, changes in the natural environment, seasonal trends and more.
9. LeafSnap
Help scientists study tree species distribution by identifying and locating tree species on your iPhone or iPad! Leafsnap is an exciting new mobile app that is designed to help citizen scientists identify and locate tree species from photographs and ultimately help the scientific world develop a better understanding of biodiversity. Developed by Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution, Leafsnap contains a unique visual recognition software that helps users identify species from the photographs taken straight from your iphone or ipad.
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Whether you're cicada tracking outside or swabbing microbes indoors, we wish you all the best with your experiments this season. Be sure to come back and tell us about it in the comments!
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Citizen Science visits New Orleans: a 24-hour BioBlitz
By Carolyn Graybeal April 26th, 2013 at 7:16 am | Comment
Source: http://www.nps.gov/jela/barataria-preserve.htm
Each year since 1996, the National Geographic Society joins with the U.S. National Park Service to host one BioBlitz, and this year it will be held down on the bayou! On May 17th-18th citizen scientists will join field biologists to map and inventory the living creatures in the Big Easy's Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve.
A BioBlitz is a 24-hour biological survey during which volunteer scientists and park officials guide teachers, students and families to catalogue an area's biodiversity in a brief but intense manner. Located on the Mississippi River delta, Jean Lafitte Barataria Preserve is a 23,000-acre wetland containing an astounding diversity of plant and animal life. This includes nutrias, 200-plus bird species, and various marsh, swamp and forest plants and insects. Volunteers will be led by park officials and expert scientists who will help guide the cataloging process.
This is a unique opportunity for non-scientists to conduct real fieldwork that will contribute to the park's official species list. Last year's volunteers included over 2,000 schoolchildren! But the event is not all notebooks and specimen bags. In true Nawlins style, this event will include a Biodiversity Festival, with music, food, art, and fun!
Sustaining biodiverisity is of both biological and economic importance. Now, BioBlitzes are held in various countries around the world and are opportunities for scientists to engage and educate the public about biodiversity a fun and interactive way. Look for one near you!
Locations of past NGS/NPS BioBlitzes include Saguaro National Park, Arizona, Biscayne Bay, Florida and Indian Dunes National Lakes. Last year, over 5,000 volunteers participated and catalogued 489 species of plants and animals in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park.
Volunteer registration opened April 14th, and inventory groups fill up quickly! If you are interested in volunteering for any part of the event, email email@example.com or learn more about the project at National Geographic's website. Scientists interested in volunteering should visit this link for more specific information. There are also additional learning resources for educators.
Happy cataloging!
Name That Ant!
By Lily Bui April 24th, 2013 at 3:28 pm | Comment
"Never judge an ant at first glance," warns Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice, myrmecologist and head of the School of Ants project.
Meet Forelius pruinosus. At first glance, it may seem a little unimpressive, even underwhelming. However, the more you learn about Forelius, the more you realize there's more to it than meets the antennae. For one, they're masters of climate and can survive just as well in the arid desert as it can in your kitchen or bathroom. Surprisingly, they also smell good. These ants secrete an odorous alarm pheromone that attracts their nestmates, a trait that comes in handy when they're in danger. Forelius are known to be light on their feet as well. When faced with conflict or danger, they shake their bodies and communicate with others by dancing.
Believe it or not, Forelius has yet to acquire a common name, as common as it is in the household and beyond. That's why Your Wild Life is holding a competition to name it! They've taken submissions from all over (museums, science events, online) and received a plethora of creative suggestions–from "Fancy Ant" to "Lady Gaga" and everything in between!
Here are the top four contenders for Forelius' common name. Visit the special voting page to pick your favorite! Hurry, the deadline is April 30, 2013!
1. Barricade Ant – Forelius pruinosus use chemical defenses and elaborate teamwork to barricade the colony openings of ants four times larger than themselves during foraging.
2. Blockade Ant – F. pruinosus does not allow other ants to leave their nests if they've found something delicious nearby; they surround their competitors' nest and shoot chemicals out of their butts!
3. High-Noon Ant – F. pruinosus have been described as thermophilic, or heat-loving, and are typically the only ants actively foraging at noon when the sun is at its highest. This is one of the best ways for ant scientists to collect them – go out at the hottest part of the day and you'll even be likely to find a F. pruinosus!
4. Highway Ant – F. pruinosus forms thick trails as they forage during the day, they form wide ant highways as they travel from a food source back to their nest.
You can view a compilation of all the creative suggestions on the text map below. Click for the interactive version!
You might wonder, why bother with picking a common name at all? "Who would want to talk about Forelius when they could talk about ants that had way more interesting common names like carpenter ants, thief ants or big-headed ants?" emphasizes Holly Menninger, who manages the naming competition for Your Wild Life. What she means is that when something has a common name, it becomes more accessible to people. Sometimes science can be a bit esoteric, even intimidating. However, Your Wild Life has made finding a name for Forelius a democratic process, open to any and all who want to participate: "I think people like to be heard, to have their opinions and ideas make a difference – I think that's why lots of folks are attracted to voting contests."
(In this post on the PLOS blog, Caren Cooper also expounds on the importance of common nomenclature, with a nod toward Your Wild Life's naming contest.)
So far, the contest has attracted a spectrum of participants–from kids at the kindergarten level to retired seniors. Menninger says, "Our big goal at Your Wild Life is to engage the public in the study and appreciation of the biodiversity in their daily lives. Specifically with respect to ants, we want folks to learn a little bit about their tiny 6-legged neighbors, the ants who wander about their backyards and playgrounds."
This project is a testament to how citizen scientists can make a lasting impact on scientific research–whether the impact originates from a source as large as a whale or tiny as an ant.
You can also find Your Wild Life on Facebook and Twitter. And don't forget to vote for your favorite common name for Forelius!
Want even more critter-friendly citizen science projects? Check out these exciting projects from our Project Finder!
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White House Seeking Stellar "Citizen Scientists" as White House Champions of Change
By Darlene Cavalier April 24th, 2013 at 2:52 pm | Comment
From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog.
April 23, 2013
Every day, across the country, ordinary Americans known as "citizen scientists" make critical contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by collecting, analyzing, and sharing a wide range of data—from weather phenomena, to sightings of migrating birds, to the timing of flower blooms at different latitudes. Now, the White House is preparing to honor some of the Nation's most effective contributors to these important but sometimes-overlooked public servants.
Public participation in scientific research, also known as citizen science, is not a new phenomenon. In fact, before the establishment of discipline-specific training programs in the 18th and 19th centuries, most scientific research was carried out by amateurs. Many of our country's most prominent scientists got their first taste of science by participating in citizen-science projects, and even today—despite the ascendance of a professional scientific corps—society has much to gain by including non-experts in the scientific enterprise. Among other benefits, public engagement in science can help citizens critically consider science-related public policy questions, make more informed decisions regarding the pros and cons of new technologies, and provide knowledgeable input about how tax dollars should be spent.
Today, advances such as Internet-based social media platforms and other information technology resources are increasingly allowing individuals to share information over large distances, enabling like-minded citizens to participate in research projects at unprecedented levels. Many practicing scientists today are discovering that citizen scientists play an indispensable role, by helping to collect and analyze data at unparalleled rates and over wide geographical distances.
To recognize the substantial contributions and achievements of citizen scientists across the Nation, the White House will host a Champions of Change event on Citizen Science on June 4, 2013. The White House Champions of Change program highlights the stories and examples of ordinary citizens who are doing extraordinary things for their communities, their country, and their fellow citizens. This event will focus on individuals or organizations that have demonstrated exemplary leadership in engaging the broader, non-expert community in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) research. Of particular interest are efforts by individuals or organizations to include women, the economically disadvantaged, persons with disabilities, and racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented in STEM.
Do you know a citizen science leader who is using citizen science to help catalyze positive change in his or her community? Members of the public are invited to nominate candidates for consideration.
Click here to nominate a Citizen Science Champion of Change before April 30, 2013 (under "Theme of Service," choose "Citizen Science").
Joan M. Frye is a Senior Policy Analyst at OSTP
We're taking citizen science to the National Science Teachers Association and the San Antonio Spurs game. Join us!
By Darlene Cavalier April 8th, 2013 at 11:23 am | Comment
Dionn, MBA, Former Warriors cheerleader | Regina, Medical Doctor, Former Redskins Cheerleader | Laura, I.T.,Former Spurs Cheerleader |
Meet Science Cheerleaders Dionn, Laura and Regina on April 11 at the National Science Teachers Association in San Antonio from 2-3 pm and join them at the San Antonio Spurs game on 4/12 to collect microbes to send to space!
Project MERCCURI (Microbial Ecology Research Combining Citizen and University Researchers on ISS),a new research project from Science Cheerleader, SciStarter and UC Davis, is being made possible by Space Florida and NanoRacks LLC. Both organizations partnered in late 2012 to sponsor the "International Space Station Research Competition" and support innovative research payloads getting to space.
Project MERCCURI was selected as a winning project for the competition, and will facilitate the study of how microbes in buildings on Earth compare to those found on the International Space Station. Through December 31, 2013, the public can join the research team to collect swabs of surfaces at sporting events, in classrooms and at other venues. The microbes collected on the swabs will be characterized by analysis of their DNA; this will allow comparison of microbial distributions across the country. Some living microbes from the swabs will be grown in the laboratory and then sent to the International Space Station for growth rate comparisons and microbial playoffs! All results will be shared with the public.
Join the Science Cheerleaders and our partners at the National Science Teachers Association conference in San Antonio on April 11 from 2-3 pm, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 215.
Then, come to the San Antonio Spurs game on April 12 where we will collect microbes from the stadium, court and game ball. The Spurs are offering discount tickets in addition to providing access to their court!
If you can't make it to San Antonio, have no fear! We're in the process of confirming similar events across the country and WE NEED YOU! If you're interested in hearing from us as we build out our Project MERCCURI event calendar and/or as we analyze results, please sign up here.
PSSST: Every participant will earn a MERCCURI mission patch, too!
Final Four citizen science projects!
By John Ohab April 5th, 2013 at 9:17 am | Comment
This post originally appeared on the PLOS Blog Network.
We're down to the Final Four in this year's NCAA tournament, and chances are your bracket isn't looking too good. Welcome to the club. Worry not! We've got four citizen science projects that will help you make the most of Final Four weekend.
MICHIGAN WOLVERINES fans…
Roadkill Survey
If your team gets pummeled this weekend, you'll make a great Roadkill Observer or Splatter Spotter. Roadkill Survey for Road Bikers need your help to find out where wildlife live and how they move in relation to roads. Project Splatter collects UK wildlife road casualty data via Twitter and Facebook. Both projects hope to identify roadkill 'hotspots' for future mitigation projects and help preserve wildlife.
SYRACUSE ORANGE fans…
Cicada Tracker
You're in the perfect spot to help track the cicadas that emerge once every 17 years across New Jersey, New York and the whole Northeast by planting a homemade temperature sensor in the ground and reporting your findings. Your observations will be put on a map and shared with the entire community. Everyone's a winner…unless your team loses, of course.
WICHITA ST. SHOCKERS fans…
If you're too exhausted after the game to harvest wheat in nearby fields, you can still help plants by participating in Clumpy. Simply classify plant cell images by their "clumpiness", and you can provide researchers with new insights into the progression of bacterial infection in plant cells.
LOUISVILLE CARDINALS fans…
Project Nighthawk
If your team doesn't live up to the hype, you can always hide your shame in New Hampshire and help scientists study a bird of a different feather. The Ashuelot Valley Environmental Observatory is coordinating volunteer nighthawk surveys on warm evenings in Keene. Submit your observations of booming, peenting, or nighthawks diving.
And for fans of teams that didn't make it this far…
Planet Four
Check out Planet Four, a citizen science project in which volunteers help planetary scientists identify and measure features on the surface of Mars. By tracking 'fans' and 'blotches' on the Martian surface, you can help planetary scientists better understand Mars' climate.
Sixteen sweet citizen science projects
By John Ohab March 29th, 2013 at 7:15 pm | Comment
March may be ending, but March Madness is still in the air! Here are sixteen sweet projects in honor of the Sweet Sixteen:
Cicada Tracker
Families, armchair scientists and lovers of nature are invited to join in a bit of mass science: track the cicadas that emerge once every 17 years across New Jersey, New York and the whole Northeast by building homemade sensors and reporting your observations.
Spectral Challenge
The Spectral Challenge is a call to makers, hackers, and Do-It-Yourselfers worldwide to tackle real-world environmental problems with low-cost, open source spectrometry.
Project MERCCURI! Microbes in Space
Project MERCCURI is an investigation of how microbes found in buildings on Earth (in public buildings, stadiums, etc) compare to those on board the biggest building ever built in space – the International Space Station.
Air Casting
AirCasting is a platform for recording, mapping, and sharing health and environmental data using your smartphone.
Hummingbird @ Home
The Audubon Society needs citizen scientists to track, report on, and follow the spring hummingbird migration in real time. A free mobile app makes it easy to report sightings, share photos and learn more about these remarkable birds.
Precipitation Identification Near the Ground project (PING)
If you live in the area shown on the map, the Precipitation Identification Near the Ground project (PING) wants YOU to watch and report on precipitation type. PING is looking for young, old, and in-between volunteers to make observations—teachers, classes and families too!
Help researchers learn more about dogs (including your dog! by recording and sharing specific interactions with your dog. You'll learn your dog's cognitive style by playing fun, science-based games –- an experience that gives you the insight you need to make the most of your relationship with your best friend.
Where is your ice rink? Pin the location of your rink on a map, and then each winter record every day that you are able to skate on it. Scientists will gather up all the information from all the backyard rinks, and use it to track the changes in our climate.
DIY BioPrinter
Did you know you can print live cells from an inkjet printer? Come join the ongoing BioPrinter community project! Whether it's hardware hacking. programming, Arduinos, microfluidics, synthetic biology, plant biology, cell culturing, tissue engineering – everyone has something to learn, or something to teach.
Marblar is unique and fun way to engage in citizen science and exchange ideas across disciplines. Marblar posts dormant technologies in need of creative, real-world applications and then asks you to come up with those applications.
Where is My Spider?
By just taking photos and observing spiders, you can help the Explorit Science Center learn about which climates certain spiders live in and track the distribution of spiders over time.
Vital Signs Maine
Where are the invasive species in Maine? Where aren't they? Students, educators, citizens, and scientists are working together to find out.
Hedgehog Hibernation Survey
Help collect hedgehog records from 1st February until 31st August 2013. Understanding patterns of hedgehog behaviour across the UK will enable scientists target the conservation strategy for this charming animal, which is currently in severe decline.
Tag a Tiny
Help the Large Pelagics Research Center improve scientific understanding of large pelagic species by catching, measuring and releasing juvenile bluefin with conventional "spaghetti"-ID tags.
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Spectral Challenge: Public Lab launches a new project to improve open source technology
By Carolyn Graybeal March 28th, 2013 at 9:14 am | Comment
Public Lab has launched Spectral Challenge, a two-part crowd funded project to improve the use of open source spectrometers. A spectrometer is a common research tool which uses light to identify an unknown substance's chemical composition.
Last year, members of the PLOTS community successfully developed a versatile and user friendly $40 spectrometer. While more accessible, the difficulty is making such open source technology reliable. That is where this new project comes in.
Spectral Challenge Stage 1 "Collaboration" ask participants to develop methodology which will improve and standardize the use of open-source spectrometers. Techniques need to be documented and submitted by May 31. The winning team will receive $1000 from the crowd funded prize pool.
Stage 2 "Real World Use" applies these improved methods for research on environmental pollutants such as petroleum or toxic heavy metals. Stage 2 starts June 5 and more details of the competition will follow. Winners will receive 80% of the prize pool money and the remaining 20% will be used to promote future open source technology through the Public Lab nonprofit.
Public Lab emerged from a collaboration between the Grassroots Mapping Community and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade following the 2010 BP oil spill. Its mission is to foster civic science by developing various open-source tools to further environmental research. These tools could be used by formal researchers and citizen scientists alike. Back in September 2012, SciStarter joined with Public Lab to help promote their tools as they related to citizen science projects in the SciStarter Project Finder.
AAAS Webinar on April 5: "How to recruit citizen scientists for discovery."
By Darlene Cavalier March 24th, 2013 at 1:16 pm | Comment
From the AAAS website:
Have a research project that requires large data collection and analysis? Working on a tight budget and an even tighter timeline? Ever thought about outsourcing some of this work to the public? Using the power of the crowd, via the Internet and social media, citizens scientists can help get the job done on time and on budget.
This webinar brings together three experts in crowdsoucing. They will show you how it works, where to find citizens scientists, and how to insure you get the best data possible.
Join us April 5 at 12 noon ET for this hour-long webinar, brought to you by AAAS MemberCentral.
Speakers:Darlene Cavalier
Founder of SciStarter and Science CheerleaderDarlene Cavalier is the founder of SciStarter.com, an online citizen science community. The site is a one-stop-shop for potential citizen scientists and a share space where researchers recruit participants. She is also the founder of ScienceCheerleader.com, a site that creates mechanisms for public engagement in scientific research and policy discussions, but is far better known for giving rise to the "Science Cheerleaders" comprised of more than 250 current and former NFL and NBA cheerleaders who are also scientists and engineers. Cavalier herself was a cheerleader for the Philadelphia 76ers. These so-called Science Cheerleaders playfully challenge stereotypes, inspire young women to consider science careers, and involve people from all walks of life in citizen science. Cavalier is the Director of Special Projects at Discover Magazine. She holds a Masters Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where she resides with her husband and four children.
William Ludington
Bowes Fellow at UC Berkeley
Cofounder of uBiomeWill Ludington, PhD, is Bowes faculty fellow in the Immunology and Pathogenesis Division of the Molecular Cell Biology Department at UC Berkeley, where he studies the interactions between endogenous gut microbes, the host immune system, and host behavior using metagenomics and experimental model systems. Coming from a background in both large scale ecology and cell biology, the microbiome was a natural research direction. Will cofounded the citizen science startup, uBiome, in order to put metagenomic research into the hands of the public.
Iyad Rahwan
Associate Professor & Head Computing & Information Science, Masdar Institute
Coauthor of Balloon Challenge and Tag ChallengeIyad Rahwan is Associate Professor at Masdar Institute, a research institute established in cooperation with MIT. He is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and was previously a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Dr. Rahwan's research on crowdsourcing and social mobilization appeared in major academic journals, including Science, PNAS, and IEEE Computer, and was featured in popular media, such as The Economist, MSNBC, New Scientist, and Popular Science. Dr. Rahwan led the winning team in the 2012 US State Department's Tag Challenge, in which he used crowdsourcing to successfully locate 3 people in remote cities in less than 12 hours.
Moderator:Adam Ruben is a writer, comedian, storyteller, and molecular biologist in Washington, DC who has performed stand-up comedy for over 10 years at clubs, colleges, and private venues. Adam is the author of the book Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School (Broadway Books, 2010) and the monthly humor column "Experimental Error" in Science Careers. He has appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered," the Food Network's "Food Detectives," and the Science Channel's "Head Rush," and currently co-hosts "You Have Been Warned" on the Discovery Channel. Learn more at adamruben.net.
Why do we require a log in?
By Darlene Cavalier March 15th, 2013 at 2:02 pm | Comment
Recently, someone asked us why we require a log-in before we send people off to other websites where they can get involved in a citizen science project. Although we haven't heard this question from our community members, we thought we'd share our perspective with you. Perhaps you've wondered but never asked.
When we started SciStarter, then named Science For Citizens, we wanted to simply provide a database of curated, searchable citizen science projects. A simple aggregator would do (we thought!). Our goal was, and still is, to make it easier for people to learn about and get involved in citizen science projects. Back then, we didn't require a log-in. If you found a project you liked, you'd click on a URL and you were sent directly to that project's website.
We started to hear from visitors that they didn't want us to point them away from the project database, never to be heard from again. And that's exactly what would happen. Once they left, it wasn't easy for them to find their way back to learn about different projects. They had a "one and done" experience which wasn't helping anyone.
At the same time, we started hearing from project organizers that, while the field of citizen science appeared to be growing, recruiting and retaining participants was still a major uphill battle. Some of the more popular projects have their own communities to tap (particularly projects done exclusively online), but most new projects have to start from ground zero to develop new communities of participants.
Our long term vision is to create and support a large, shared, vibrant community to help match and recruit people for all types of citizen science projects. There's no shortage of opportunities available but we need to be able to reach people in order to share these opportunities.
When we spiffed up SciStarter about 1.5 years ago we made an effort to quickly build and support a dedicated, engaged community by offering a free service for project organizers and potential participants. We still curate and aggregate projects but we do a lot more than that now. Through partnerships with the National Science Teachers Association, Discover Magazine, Public Library of Science, Instructables and others, we help researchers share their projects with audiences they might not otherwise reach while providing people a one-stop-shop for projects that suite them. Bringing this community together in one, shared space, helps the researchers and the participants.
To build a community, we implemented a log-in process requiring a user name, email and password OR a sign in via Facebook. During your first visit, before we direct you away from SciStarter to a project's website, we ask you to log in. After you log in once, you can return to our site anytime in the future and be directly connected to project websites without logging in again, unless you opt to log out, of course.
We don't "harvest" emails, sell or share your email address, etc. So what do we do with your email address? Well, once every couple of weeks, we email you with information about new projects we think you'd enjoy. That's it. The log-in also enables us to begin to help you keep track of projects you are interested in or have contributed to, activities you've performed and accomplishments you've made. We have more plans to help make it easier for you to get involved in multiple projects, without signing into a bunch of different project websites to create a bunch of different user accounts. This will take time, but this is our vision.
A recent development has made us more determined than ever to build and support a sustained community. In partnership with Azavea, SciStarter is wrapping up an Alfred P. Sloan-funded study to better understand the landscape of tools and platforms available to power citizen science projects. We'll have that report to share in the coming month or two. In the process, it has become crystal clear that no matter what awesome technological tool or platform powers a project, no matter how cool the project itself is, without a sustainable community of active participants, the project will suffer.
This is a critical gap and one SciStarter hopes to fill. We are seeing some success in this area and it's led to hundreds of project organizers adding their projects to the SciStarter Project Finder in an effort to promote their projects and recruit participants. More and more, we receive unsolicited feedback from project organizers thanking us for our work while citing success stories of how, after we featured their project, participant rates doubled and even tripled.
But we recognize our log-in process isn't a perfect system and we've been looking at ways to improve it (keep it, ditch it, make it optional, test other ways to help people navigate back to the project finder, etc?). Coincidentally, this week, we received the first results of a two-part SciStarter user study conducted by a graduate class at the University of Michigan. Interestingly, the users surveyed cite our emails as added value. Here's the report if you'd like to read it. SI 622 A4 Interviews Personas Scenarios report
The students just rolled out this related online survey. In it, they ask questions specific to the log-in process. This presents a perfect opportunity for us to invite you to weigh in. You might even win a $50 Amazon gift card. Thanks for your consideration and we look forward to hearing from you!
Darlene Cavalier
Founder, SciStarter


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ALBANY - Ever since the 1980s, the legal drinking age in New York State has been 21, although many people think the law is unenforceable and should be changed. Others believe young people are often too immature to make the right choices when it comes to alcohol-related decisions.
The latest debate on the subject comes about at a time when Albany's Mayor Jerry Jennings is saying it needs to be looked at, and also on a day when a University at Albany student was charged with serving minors at an underage house party on State Street.
It was on Saint Patrick's Day weekend in 2011, when a drunken rampage involving area college students focused attention on the issue of underage drinking, but even after what happened then, and what continues to happen now, Jennings had this to say on Thursday:
"I personally think we should look at this drinking age and put the kids back on campus at 19 or so and look at what drove (the drinking age up to 21) and what the repercussions have been."
On the same streets where the Kegs and Eggs fiasco embarrassed the community, you'd be hard pressed to find people -- especially students -- who disagree with the mayor.
"Everyone's going to drink any way," said Mason Burns, a 19-year old college student, "It doesn't matter if you're 18 or 21."
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Bay Area Comedians Bring Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy to 111 Minna Gallery for First-Ever "Multicultural Mass Mixer"
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Bay Area Comedians Bring Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy to 111 Minna Gallery for First-Ever "Multicultural Mass Mixer"
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- San Francisco doesn't seem the same after the Purple Onion closed last month after 60 years of laughter and applause. That's why a select group of Bay area comedians teamed together with Christelyn Karazin and Janice Littlejohn, the co-authors of "Swirling: How to Date, Mate and Relate, Mixing Race, Culture and Creed," to bring some laugh-out-loud comedy to 111 Minna Gallery for the first-ever multicultural-mass-mixer on October 13, 2012. The event is geared toward celebrating the lighter side of multiculturalism, mixed race dating, and the "browning of America."
The "multicultural-mass-mixer" is the brainchild of Rob Thompson, founder of www.InterracialDating.com and Rudy Tabasa, founder of Halfbreed Clothing Co., the first clothing line that encourages multi-racial people (the fastest growing demographic according to Census data) to proudly embrace and celebrate their status and heritage. Thompson wanted to create a series of offline singles mixing events for people from any cultural background to meet like-minded people who choose "character above color". Thompson teamed with Tabasa, a San Francisco Native, after wide-spread success of the Halfbreed Comedy Tour throughout the Bay area. "What better place than San Francisco to kick off our events? It's one of the most diverse, "swirl-friendly" cities in the world," says Thompson, who also used to live in the Bay Area.
The "Swirling" social mixer will feature an engaging discussion on navigating mixed race, culture and faith relationships. A book signing and live comedy performance follows, with a lineup of comedians including the hilarious Filipino comedian, Ricky Del Rosario. Once voted by HBO as one of the top ten up and coming urban comedians in the United States. Del Rosario travels the country bringing unique humor and in-depth characters to thousands of comedy fans and performed several seasons on "Comic View," and the very first HBO series, "Laffapoluza."
Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served. Advanced tickets are $25 and available at http://swirlingsf.eventbrite.com; $30 at the-door or groups of 4 or more $20. Price includes a copy of "Swirling" to the first 50 people.
Local San Francisco media welcome to attend free of charge with proper press credentials.
DATE: Saturday, October 13, 2012
TIME: 6:30 PM-9:30PM with after party following comedy show
LOCATION: 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna Street, San Francisco CA 94105
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