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  • Life in Early California: A New Approach to the Outdoor Field Trip
    Date: 05/24/1973
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Describes an outdoor educational program at the University of California Botanical Garden in which children are encouraged to handle the plants and are provided with a taped commentary. By the use of an inquiry method, children learn how the Californian Indians used many of the native plants. ... »
  • Maine Volunteer Lake Monitors
    Date: 01/01/1971
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program (VLMP) trains and supports volunteers who keep and eye on the health of their lakes. Our volunteers measure multiple indicators of lake water quality and screen for the presence of invasive aquatic plants such as variable milfoil. Our mission is to provide protection for the nearly 6,000 lakes in Maine ... »
  • Roads Taken: Long-Term Impacts of STEM Youth Programs
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    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    The Roads Taken Conference Report provides information and results from the virtual conference held in October and November 2016. Representatives from ten long-standing youth programs, experts in out-of-school time (OST) youth programming, and researchers participated in the Roads Taken virtual conference in October and November 2016, funded by ... »
  • Support Systems for Scientists’ Communication and Engagement: An Exploration of the People and Institutions Empowering Effective Impact – Summary of initiative, landscape reports and workshops
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    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    Many scientists want to connect with the public, but their efforts to do so are not always easy or effective. Visionary programs and institutions are leading the way identifying the support needed to enable scientists’ connections with the public. However, the current appetite by -- and demand for -- scientists to do this exceeds the capacity of ... »
  • Work It Out! Application-based Tech as Fitness Circuits for Cultural Institutions Engaging in their Local Ecology
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    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    Cities need to know how their cultural institutions related to each other; yet these institutions themselves struggle to understand what their niche can and should be in a city (Kloosterman, 2014). However the public often implicitly ‘knows’ the role of a particular cultural institution within an urban ecology; increasingly this knowledge is made ... »
  • Rothamsted Insect Survey Light-Trap Network
    Date: 01/01/1968
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    Rothamsted Research is the oldest agricultural research station in the world. It is internationally recognised for its long history of entomological studies, including the Rothamsted Insect Survey which has operated a national network of light traps since 1968. Most of the traps are operated by volunteers, with approximately 90 traps running each ... »
  • Audubon Christmas Bird Count
    Date: 01/01/1900
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The CBC database is the repository of early winter bird observations recorded since 1900. Currently there are over 2100 count circles submitted each year (as of 2008). The database provides information for compilers, regional editors, Audubon conservation staff, ornithologists, academic researchers, federal, state and local wildlife and land ... »
  • Proceedings: First Annual Meeting of the Museums Association
    Date: 01/01/1890
    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    Conference proceedings from the First Annual General Meeting of the Museums Association, which took place in Liverpool in 1890. Includes background on the association's formation. ... »
  • North American Bird Phenology Program
    Date: 01/01/1880
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The North American Bird Phenology Program houses a unique and largely forgotten collection of six million Migration Observer Cards that illuminate migration patterns and population status of birds in North America. These handwritten cards contain almost all of what was known of bird status from the Second World War back to the later part of the ... »
  • AI writing bots are about to revolutionise science journalism: we must shape how this is done
    Date: 03/06/0218
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    The rise of artificial intelligence has recently led to bots writing real news stories about sports, finance and politics. As yet, bots have not turned their attention to science, and some people still mistakenly think science is too complex for bots to write about. In fact, a small number of insiders are now applying AI algorithms to summarise ... »

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