{"id":230,"date":"2022-08-20T12:53:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/?p=230"},"modified":"2022-08-27T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T15:06:00","slug":"citizen-science-scope-and-scalability-tools-for-measuring-community-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/2022\/08\/20\/citizen-science-scope-and-scalability-tools-for-measuring-community-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Science, Scope, and Scalability: Tools for Measuring Community Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/169\/2022\/08\/national-biodiversity-data-centre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Citizen science is a proven way to gather large scale data without the cost and time of conducting massive surveys. One incredibly successful example is through the National Biodiversity Data Centre in Ireland, which at the time of writing has over 4.9 million records logged. There is a dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/records.biodiversityireland.ie\/stats\/taxon-stats\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/records.biodiversityireland.ie\/stats\/taxon-stats\">Citizen Science Portal<\/a> where species sightings can be logged and mapped. Additionally there are many training<a href=\"https:\/\/biodiversityireland.ie\/publications\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/biodiversityireland.ie\/publications\/\"> resources <\/a>on biodiversity (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/2021\/11\/14\/cop15-the-butterflies-the-bees\/?preview_id=119&amp;preview_nonce=8464fb500f&amp;preview=true\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/2021\/11\/14\/cop15-the-butterflies-the-bees\/?preview_id=119&amp;preview_nonce=8464fb500f&amp;preview=true\">including the butterflies of Ireland course I posted about previously<\/a>). This model can be applied, too, to community gardening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Harvest-ometer\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V6FEc3PgJcE?start=70&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalgrowth.org\/the_harvestometer\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.capitalgrowth.org\/the_harvestometer\/\">Harvest-ometer, a London based citizen science tool<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One example of how citizen science can be utilized to quantify community gardening is seen here through the Harvest-ometer. This is a tool whereby citizens of London are able to track the actual harvest yield of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalgrowth.org\/spaces\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.capitalgrowth.org\/spaces\/\">garden spaces<\/a>, allowing for the gathering of quantitative data including hectares used, crop type, and harvest amount. This would be incredibly useful on a larger scale to monitor garden spaces and determine their impact on food security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read more on Citizen Science in Ireland here:<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org\/articles\/10.5334\/cstp.283\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org\/articles\/10.5334\/cstp.283\/\">The Citizens in Citizen Science: Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Health Characteristics of Biodiversity Recorders in Ireland, Mac Domhnaill <em>et al<\/em>., 2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00484-013-0717-0\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00484-013-0717-0\">The role of citizen science in monitoring biodiversity in Ireland, Donnelly <em>et al<\/em>., 2014<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read more on novel quantification for Community Gardens here:<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2071-1050\/12\/13\/5452\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2071-1050\/12\/13\/5452\">Valuing Physical and Social Output: A Rapid Assessment of a London Community Garden, Schoen <em>et al<\/em>., 2020<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen science is a proven way to gather large scale data without the cost and time of conducting massive surveys.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/katherine-everette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}