Beyond Data Points and Research Contributions: The Personal Meaning and Value Associated with Public Participation in Scientific Research

摘要: As public participation in scientific research (PPSR) initiatives have expanded rapidly among private, public, and non-profit science communities over the past decade, program managers scholars regularly promote, evaluate, manage such programs with a focus on value impact of PPSR efforts practice relevancy science. While many these assessments rely evaluation individual participant knowledge skill, they are driven by broader interest how outcomes influence form function society. Such science-centered emphasis is neither surprising nor inappropriate. Nonetheless, appraisals generally do not interrogate full range goals outcomes. This article advocates for greater comprehensive examination effects volunteers. A more integrated perspective therefore assumed to report conducted volunteers Coastal Observation Seabird Surv...