Darlene Cavalier has boosted some of the biggest citizen science projects in the nation — and wants everyone to join in.
She didn’t want to be a scientist when she grew up. As a kid, Darlene Cavalier was more interested in cheerleading and dancing than in learning how to crunch numbers and snag awards at science fairs. “I was a good student,” she explains. But science just wasn’t her thing.
That was fascinating to me. I had to take those answers and enter them into a database, which meant I was reading every single one of these entries. Occasionally I had to call the scientists if they’d forgotten to fill something out. I remember thinking, “I don’t know that I’ve ever talked to a scientist before this, but they are incredible.” I would tell my family stories about them, too.My family was very blue collar.
I think it used to be harder to try to persuade professional scientists that data or efforts among the lay public could actually be useful. There were a lot of questions from the science community about data quality, and these are valid questions for sure. There was also maybe a feeling of “they can’t possibly do what it took me so long to study,” and just a sense of uneasiness overall. I’ve seen that change pretty dramatically, although it’s still there to a certain extent.
Q: SciStarter is primarily a website where citizen scientists can find a variety of projects to work on. But how do you reach communities offline to help them get involved with citizen science? And I really want to stress that our initiatives are a team effort. We do everything in partnership with people and organizations that also believe in the power of the people.We saw more flexibility from project scientists who were desperate for people to get involved in their project and could no longer go somewhere, like to a national park for example. We also saw more of a willingness for the scientists to communicate online.
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