EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021
(Virtually the same conference, without elevators, airplane tickets, or hotel room keys)
5/21/2019 | 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | MACROINVERTEBRATES.ORG: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION TO BUILD A DIGITAL TEACHING COLLECTION FOR AQUATIC MACROINVERTEBRATE IDENTIFICATION | 250 DE
MACROINVERTEBRATES.ORG: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION TO BUILD A DIGITAL TEACHING COLLECTION FOR AQUATIC MACROINVERTEBRATE IDENTIFICATION
A persistent challenge in training volunteers to reliably and accurately identify aquatic macroinvertebrates lies in the creation of resources that convey entomological knowledge at the appropriate level for new learners with diverse backgrounds and experiences. The relative difficulty of providing appropriate reference material and the lack of identification practice opportunities for increasing volunteers’ engagement, confidence, and accuracy for learning the taxa can lead to questions about the legitimacy of volunteer-collected data. Macroinvertebrates.org is an innovative digital teaching and learning tool that addresses these issues by presenting explorable, high-resolution annotated images with supplemental multimedia to support the development of identification skills. Funded by the National Science Foundation, this design research effort brings together citizen science trainers and organizations, entomologists, learning scientists, and human-computer interaction researchers to create an online platform for training citizen scientists to identify aquatic macroinvertebrates for water quality monitoring. Through this interdisciplinary collaboration, we are building an interactive visual atlas of the most commonly found freshwater macroinvertebrates in the Eastern United States to help volunteers learn to see key diagnostic characters, with the ultimate aim of increasing the value of citizen-generated data for conservation and environmental decision-making.
- Education
- Invertebrate
- Taxonomy
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Tara Muenz
(), Stroud Water Research Center, tmuenz@stroudcenter.org;
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Jessica Roberts
(), Carnegie Mellon University, jarobert@andrew.cmu.edu;
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John C. Morse
(), Clemson University, jmorse@clemson.edu;
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John Wenzel
(), Carnegie Museum of Natural History, wenzelj@carnegiemnh.org;
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Andrea Kautz
(), Carnegie Museum of Natural History, kautza@carnegiemnh.org;
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Marti Louw
(), Carnegie Mellon University, mrlouw@andrew.cmu.edu;
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