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Collaborations Between Scientists & Non-scientists Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences Pedro Russo Leiden University/UNAWE/IAU [email protected] @pruss pedro.scienceoffice.org

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Page 1: Collaborations Between Scientists & Non-scientists

Collaborations Between Scientists &

Non-scientists Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences

Pedro Russo Leiden University/UNAWE/IAU [email protected]

@pruss pedro.scienceoffice.org

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Citizen participation in Astronomy and Related Space Sciences

For every professional astronomer, there are at least 20 amateurs and many many more

astronomy enthusiasts.

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Model of virtual organisations for citizen-science projects

Organisational

Inputs

Research Question

Task Definition

Organisational

Level

Data mgmt

User Experience Volunteer

Management Communication

Individual

Level

Skills

Motivation Role/Contribution

Community

Outputs

Knowledge

Contribution

Satisfaction

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Individual Level

Demographics, Skills, Motivation, Satisfaction, Contributions

Organisational Level Community, Volunteer Management, Task Design, Technology Design, Communication, Knowledge Transfer

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Astronomy Enthusiast

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Astronomy Enthusiast

Skills: Low-medium knowledge

Motivation: Mild interest in science/astronomy/space

Contributions:

• Participation in talks, planetarium shows, exhibitions

• Popular astronomy content consumers (websites, pop sci books)

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Citizen-Astronomer

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Citizen-Astronomer

Skills: Good IT skills, usually low level astronomy knowledge

Motivation:

• Contribution to science (i.e. no sandbox games, it must really be a contribution to science)

• Learn more about astronomy

• You see things that very few people have seen before.

Contributions:

• Participation in Galaxy Zoo & other Zooniverse projects

• Serious-gaming: Cerberus

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Amateur Astronomer

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Amateur Astronomer

Skills:

• Medium level of astronomy knowledge

• Some observational skills

• Able to work with a simple optical telescopes

• Knows most of the popular constellations

• Can identify the main planets

Motivation:

• Will to learn more: mainly observation techniques and observational astronomy.

• Participate in a community

Contributions:

• Advanced content consumer (specialized magazines)

• Participation in occasional stargazing events

• Basic observations to projects meteor watch and variable stars

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Amateur-Communicator

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Amateur-Communicator

Skills:

Medium-advanced knowledge level of astronomy

Motivation:

• Share knowledge with fellow citizens.

Contributions:

• Public talks about basic astronomy

• Public stargazing events

• Write short articles for local or groups publications

• Production of small exhibitions

• Translation of content

• During IYA2009, 2.5 million people observed through telescope for the first time.

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Astrophotographer

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Astrophotographer

Skills:

• Advanced technical knowledge

• Deep understanding of photography

• Advanced image processing skills

• Owners of cutting-edge astrophotography equipment

Motivation:

• Recognition by peers

• Beauty and aesthetics

Contributions:

• Beautiful astronomical images

• Contribution to astrophotography websites (Astronomy Picture of the Day) and publications (The World at Night)

• Open hardware: Philips ToUcam Pro

• Image processing techniques: Lucky imaging

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Advanced Amateur

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Advanced Amateur

Skills:

• Advanced technical knowledge

• Deep understanding of science processes

• Good mathematics/programming skills

Motivation:

• Recognisiton by peers and professionals

• Contribute to astronomy research (ie. Publication of papers)

Contributions:

• Advanced contributions to several areas of astronomy: supernova, planetary sciences, time-consuming and long time coverage.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Overview of citizen

participation in Astronomy

Enthusiast Advanced Amateur Citizen-Astronomer Amateur

1. Popular astronomy content consumers (websites, pop sci books), participation in talks, stargazing events, planetarium shows, exhibitions

2. Consumer of astronomy content ( specialised magazines)

3. Serious-gaming and citizen-science projects 4. Member of Astronomy Societies, sporadic observations

5. Organisation of talks, public stargazing events 6. Contribution to astrophotography websites (Astronomy Picture of the Day) and publications 7. Advanced contributions to several areas of astronomy

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A concept for an on-line

platform for Pro-Am Collaborations in Astronomy

An on-line platform to foster the collaboration between professional and amateur astronomers.

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Bring together amateurs and professional to make sense of the Universe through collaborations and data

share.

A shared space and free resource to help the communities to achieve common goals.

Vision

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To increase the collaborations between professional and amateurs astronomers as well as

other astronomy enthusiasts.

To foster pro-am collaborations.

To raise awareness of the results coming from pro-am collaborations.

To provide standards to pro-am collaborations.

Goals

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• About – Team

– Why are we doing this?

• News – Including latest papers published in the framework of pro-am

collaboration

– Events: Meetings, conference, schools,

• PRO-AM Projects

– Current PRO-AM projects

– Past PRO-AM projects

– Submit a new project

Structure

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• Scientific Data

– Request data

– Submit/Share data

– Explore existing data

• Resources

– The scientific process

– Standards in astronomy

– How-to guides: Equipment, Software

– Types of data: Images, Spectroscopy, Radio

– Repository of presentations

Structure

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Inspiration

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Inspiration

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Open Google document about Pro-Am

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uJIVVRveQB6SUvIpu_fnT4Ei-

yQ4IGaMTM6NPOgbM78/edit?hl=en_GB

Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers

http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.3847/AER200903

Developing a conceptual model of virtual organisations for citizen science

http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=record&rec_id=35191

References