TY - JOUR
T1 - Public participation, trust and data sharing
T2 - gardens as hubs for citizen science and environmental health literacy efforts
AU - Sandhaus, Shana
AU - Kaufmann, Dorsey
AU - Ramirez-Andreotta, Monica
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program: [grant number P42ES04940]; French National Center for Scientific Research’s Device for Interdisciplinary Research on Human-Environment Interaction Laboratories; Center for Environmentally Sustainable Mining - TRIF; National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning [grant number DRL-1612554].
Funding Information:
We would like to thank the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program (P42ES04940), the Center for Environmentally Sustainable Mining initiated by the Water, Environmental, and Energy Solutions – Technology Research Initiative Fund Water Sustainability Program, the French National Center for Scientific Research’s Device for Interdisciplinary Research on Human-Environment Interaction Laboratories (OHMI), and the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning (DRL-1612554), without which this research would not have been possible. We thank our colleagues in the Integrated Environmental Science and Health Risk Laboratory for their support throughout this process. We would also like to acknowledge and thank all the Gardenroots participants and the following University of Arizona Cooperative Extension county offices: Cochise (Susan Pater, Josh Sherman), Greenlee (Kim McReynolds, Bill Cook), and Apache (Mike Hauser). Special thanks to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Developing, Validating, and Implementing Situated Evaluation Instruments (DEVISE) project for making their evaluation scales available. In accordance with Taylor & Francis policy and our ethical obligations as researchers, we are reporting that we have no financial and/or business interests in a company that may be affected by the research reported in the enclosed paper.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program: [grant number P42ES04940]; French National Center for Scientific Research?s Device for Interdisciplinary Research on Human-Environment Interaction Laboratories; Center for Environmentally Sustainable Mining - TRIF; National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning [grant number DRL-1612554]. We would like to thank the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program (P42ES04940), the Center for Environmentally Sustainable Mining initiated by the Water, Environmental, and Energy Solutions?Technology Research Initiative Fund Water Sustainability Program, the French National Center for Scientific Research?s Device for Interdisciplinary Research on Human-Environment Interaction Laboratories (OHMI), and the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning (DRL-1612554), without which this research would not have been possible. We thank our colleagues in the Integrated Environmental Science and Health Risk Laboratory for their support throughout this process. We would also like to acknowledge and thank all the Gardenroots participants and the following University of Arizona Cooperative Extension county offices: Cochise (Susan Pater, Josh Sherman), Greenlee (Kim McReynolds, Bill Cook), and Apache (Mike Hauser). Special thanks to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology?s Developing, Validating, and Implementing Situated Evaluation Instruments (DEVISE) project for making their evaluation scales available. In accordance with Taylor & Francis policy and our ethical obligations as researchers, we are reporting that we have no financial and/or business interests in a company that may be affected by the research reported in the enclosed paper.
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PY - 2019/1/2
Y1 - 2019/1/2
N2 - Gardenroots: A Citizen Science Project (2015) is the product of a needs assessment, revealing environmental quality concerns of gardeners living near hazardous waste or resource extraction activities. Participants were trained, collected garden samples for analysis, and later received their data visualized (individual and aggregated) via community events or mail. This article describes participant motivations, changes in knowledge and efficacy, and whether these depend on the mode of data sharing and visualization. Motivations were internal, and self-efficacy increased, while knowledge and satisfaction were higher in event attendees due to increased researcher contact. This reveals importance of data-sharing events, data visualizations, and participatory research processes.
AB - Gardenroots: A Citizen Science Project (2015) is the product of a needs assessment, revealing environmental quality concerns of gardeners living near hazardous waste or resource extraction activities. Participants were trained, collected garden samples for analysis, and later received their data visualized (individual and aggregated) via community events or mail. This article describes participant motivations, changes in knowledge and efficacy, and whether these depend on the mode of data sharing and visualization. Motivations were internal, and self-efficacy increased, while knowledge and satisfaction were higher in event attendees due to increased researcher contact. This reveals importance of data-sharing events, data visualizations, and participatory research processes.
KW - citizen science
KW - data visualization
KW - Environmental communication
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U2 - 10.1080/21548455.2018.1542752
DO - 10.1080/21548455.2018.1542752
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85057300060
SN - 2154-8455
VL - 9
SP - 54
EP - 71
JO - International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement
JF - International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement
IS - 1
ER -