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In Their Own Words: The Significance of Participant Perceptions in Assessing Entomology Citizen Science Learning Outcomes Using a Mixed Methods Approach

open access: yesInsects, 2018
A mixed methods study was used to transcend the traditional pre-, post-test approach of citizen science evaluative research by integrating adults’ test scores with their perceptions.
Louise I. Lynch   +4 more
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GOES-R Algorithms: A Common Science and Engineering Design and Development Approach for Delivering Next Generation Environmental Data Products [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
GOES-R, the next generation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) System, represents a new technological era in operational geostationary environmental satellite systems ...
Baldwin, John L   +7 more
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Supporting the Next Generation of Leaders in the Geosciences: Barnard’s Environmental Science Pathways Scholar Program

open access: yesOceanography, 2023
To address the national need to diversify the geosciences, we created the cohort-based Environmental Science Pathways Scholars Program, or E(SP)2, for undergraduates in the Environmental Science Department at Barnard College who identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), first generation, or low income.
Logan Brenner   +9 more
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Toward a new “Fractals-General Science”

open access: yesAlexandria Engineering Journal, 2014
A recent study has shown that everywhere real systems follow common “fractals-general stacking behavior” during their change pathways (or evolutionary life cycles).
Hassen Taher Dorrah
doaj   +1 more source

The Demographics of Citizen Science Participation and Its Implications for Data Quality and Environmental Justice

open access: yesCitizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2020
Citizen science programs have been growing in popularity in recent years and can provide various benefits to participants and their communities. We sought to determine whether these benefits are equitably accessible to all by examining potential ...
Charlie Blake   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Consequences of Water Withdrawals and Drainage of Wetlands

open access: yesEDIS, 2009
SL-302, a 3-page fact sheet by Alan L. Wright, educates the general public about how hydrologic conditions, such as drought and water withdrawal, influence the functioning and benefits of wetland ecosystems.
Alan L. Wright
doaj   +5 more sources

The role of forensic science in the generation of intelligence to address environmental water contamination problems

open access: yesWIREs Forensic Science, 2023
AbstractWater contamination is a growing concern in society. New environmental laws are being enacted to define intolerable human activities, and their enforcement is increasingly supported by forensic science. However, water contamination is a broader security issue that is not only caused by illegal human behavior. Risk‐based approaches are needed to
Nicolas Estoppey   +8 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Ten simple rules to facilitate evidence implementation in the environmental sciences

open access: yesFACETS, 2020
There is a gap between fundamental science and managers. There are many general solutions including the need to better leverage the primary scientific literature for decision-making.
Christopher J. Lortie, Malory Owen
doaj   +1 more source

Biophotonics: a marriage of sciences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Biophotonics denotes a combination of biology and photonics, with photonics being the science and technology of generation, manipulation, and detection of photons, quantum units of light.
Girkin, J.M.
core  

Perseverance of perverse subsidies and their impact on trade and the environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Theoretical and empirical aspects of policy failures due to subsidies are discussed in the context of international trade. A general classification of subsidies that cause environmental externalities is presented.
Beers, C. van, Bergh, J.C.J.M. van den
core   +3 more sources

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