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Not Empty Rain Gauges: Experienced Hobbyists Fulfilled in a Contributory Project Open

Kurt Naquin, Dayvion R. Adams, M. Bailey, Lacey Brown, M. T. Díez , et al. · 2025

For the past two decades, conceptual frameworks from informal science learning have guided the field of citizen science, sometimes leading to assumptions or expectations that participants enter projects without prior knowledge and their en…

The Influence of Gender on the Support and Confidence of Students in Undergraduate STEM Majors Open

Minnatallah Eltinay, Danielle E. Lin Hunter, Porchè L. Spence, Zakiya H. Leggett · 2025

Gender can have an impact on the intended career pathways in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This has important implications for research on gender issues in STEM education in larger contexts. In partic…

Public detection of lead plumbing and perceptions of municipal and well drinking water safety in the United States Open

Danielle E. Lin Hunter, Valerie Johnson, Emily Zechman Berglund, Caren B. Cooper · 2025

Federal monies to remediate lead in drinking water support utilities companies to upgrade infrastructure. There is little upgrade support for private property owners on public or private sources of water, and sparse data available on the r…

The Dual Nature of Trust in Participatory Sciences: An Investigation into Data Quality and Household Privacy Preferences Open

Danielle E. Lin Hunter, Valerie E. Johnson, Caren B. Cooper · 2024

There is a duality of trust in participatory science (citizen science) projects in which the data produced by volunteers must be trusted by the scientific community and participants must trust the scientists who lead projects. Facilitator …

A Positionality Tool to Support Ethical Research and Inclusion in the Participatory Sciences Open

Caren B. Cooper, Danielle E. Lin Hunter, Jan-Michael Archer, Hasibe Caballero-Gómez, Chris Hawn , et al. · 2024

Scientific research is not value-neutral but builds on the stated and unstated values of those leading the research, influencing the choice of study topics; decisions about methods, judgments, or inferences with data; and considerations of…

Extraordinary Darkness: A Participatory Approach to Assessing Animal Behavior During Eclipses Open

Adam Hartstone‐Rose, Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Lisa M. Paciulli, Rhianna Absher, Nhaturie Atkinson , et al. · 2024

Building on earlier work demonstrating that animals exhibit behavioral responses to solar eclipses, we present an expansive participatory science approach to examine the impact of eclipses on animal behavior. Formal studies done by researc…

Diversifying Large-Scale Participatory Science: The Efficacy of Engagement through Facilitator Organizations Open

Danielle E. Lin Hunter, Valerie Johnson, Caren B. Cooper · 2023

Large-scale, scientist-led, participatory science (citizen science) projects often engage participants who are primarily white, wealthy, and well-educated. Calls to diversify contributory projects are increasingly common, but little resear…

I will survive: Teachers reflect on motivations to remain in education amidst a global pandemic Open

Diane S. Wright, Andrea E. Weinberg, Laura B. Sample McMeeking, Danielle E. Lin Hunter, Meena M. Balgopal · 2022

As the pandemic began to disrupt school systems in March 2020, teachers were expected to quickly modify their instructional approaches. We recruited science, technology, engineering, and mathematics teachers who were recipients of National…

A sense of belonging: The role of higher education in retaining quality STEM teachers Open

Meena M. Balgopal, Andrea E. Weinberg, Laura B. Sample McMeeking, Danielle E. Lin Hunter, Diane S. Wright · 2022

There is an alarming shortage of qualified STEM teachers in American PK-12 schools. The COVID-19 pandemic may exacerbate this crisis and consequently affect who participates in future STEM innovation. At three points during the pandemic, w…

Intentional mentoring should increase inclusivity in ecology Open

Emily R. Stuchiner, Danielle E. Lin Hunter, Jennifer L. Neuwald, Colleen T. Webb, Meena M. Balgopal · 2022

High‐quality mentoring relationships can be pivotal to recruitment, retention, and long‐term persistence in ecology majors and careers. The graduate–undergraduate student mentoring relationship can become uniquely important during activiti…

Removing Barriers and Creating Opportunities for Climate-Resilient Agriculture by Optimizing Federal Crop Insurance Open

Laura K. van der Pol, Clara A. Tibbetts, Danielle E. Lin Hunter · 2021

Climate change is devastating global agricultural and economic systems. Nature-based solutions that promote conservation agriculture can address these challenges while mitigating climate change. We propose a pilot crop insurance and resear…

Citizen Scientist or Citizen Technician: A Case Study of Communication on One Citizen Science Platform Open

Danielle E. Lin Hunter, Greg Newman, Meena M. Balgopal · 2020

The different types of engagement in citizen science produce potentially different outcomes. Although participation in citizen science can increase volunteer scientific literacy, recent research suggests that this does not occur in project…

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