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== Conferences ==
The first Conference on Public Participation in Scientific Research was held in Portland, Oregon, in August 2012. Citizen science is now often a theme at large conferences, such as the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
In 2010, 2012 and 2014 there were three Citizen Cyberscience summits, organised by the Citizen Cyberscience Centre in Geneva and University College London. The 2014 summit was hosted in London and attracted over 300 participants.
In November 2015, the ETH Zürich and University of Zürich hosted an international meeting on the "Challenges and Opportunities in Citizen Science".
The first citizen science conference hosted by the Citizen Science Association was in San Jose, California, in February 2015 in partnership with the AAAS conference. The Citizen Science Association conference, CitSci 2017, was held in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, between 17 and 20 May 2017. The conference had more than 600 attendees. The next CitSci was in March 2019 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The platform "Österreich forscht" hosts the annual Austrian citizen science conference since 2015.

== In popular culture ==
Barbara Kingsolver's 2012 novel Flight Behaviour looks at the effects of citizen science on a housewife in Appalachia, when her interest in butterflies brings her into contact with scientists and academics.

== See also ==

== Notes ==

== References ==

== Further reading ==
Web, Cameron; Williams, Craig; Sousa, Larissa Braz; Doherty, Seamus; Fricker, Stephen Robert (11 December 2019). "As heat strikes, here's one way to help fight disease-carrying and nuisance mosquitoes". The Conversation. "The Mozzie Monitors program marks the first time formal mosquito trapping has been combined with citizen science." (Australian project)
Franzoni, Chiara; Sauermann, Henry (February 2014). "Crowd science: The organization of scientific research in open collaborative projects". Research Policy. 43 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2013.07.005. hdl:11311/754644. SSRN 2167538.
Dick Kasperowsik (interviewed by Ulrich Herb): Citizen Science as democratization of science? In: telepolis, 2016, 27 August
Ridley, Matt. (8 February 2012) "Following the Crowd to Citizen Science". The Wall Street Journal
Young, Jeffrey R. (28 May 2010). "Crowd Science Reaches New Heights", The Chronicle of Higher Education
Sauermann, Henry; Franzoni, Chiara (20 January 2015). "Crowd science user contribution patterns and their implications". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (3): 679–684. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112..679S. doi:10.1073/pnas.1408907112. PMC 4311847. PMID 25561529. SSRN 2545945.
Bourjon, Philippe; Ducarme, Frédéric; Quod, Jean-Pascal; Sweet, Michael (2018). "Involving recreational snorkelers in inventory improvement or creation: a case study in the Indian Ocean". Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 59: 451–460. doi:10.21411/CBM.A.B05FC714.
Albagli, Sarita; Iwama, Allan Yu (2022). "Citizen science and the right to research: building local knowledge of climate change impacts". Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 9 (1) 39: 1–13. doi:10.1057/s41599-022-01040-8.
Fritz, Steffen; See, Linda; Carlson, Tyler; Haklay, Mordechai (Muki); Oliver, Jessie L.; Fraisl, Dilek; Mondardini, Rosy; Brocklehurst, Martin; Shanley, Lea A.; Schade, Sven; Wehn, Uta; Abrate, Tommaso; Anstee, Janet; Arnold, Stephan; Billot, Matthew; Campbell, Jillian; Espey, Jessica; Gold, Margaret; Hager, Gerid; He, Shan; Hepburn, Libby; Hsu, Angel; Long, Deborah; Masó, Joan; McCallum, Ian; Muniafu, Maina; Moorthy, Inian; Obersteiner, Michael; Parker, Alison J.; Weisspflug, Maike; West, Sarah (2019). "Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals". Nature Sustainability. 2 (10): 922–930. Bibcode:2019NatSu...2..922F. doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0390-3.

== External links ==
 Media related to Citizen science at Wikimedia Commons
"Controversy over the term 'citizen science'". CBC News. 13 August 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2023.