Virtual Expeditions Facilitated by Open Source Solutions Broaden Student Participation in Natural History Research.

ABSTRACT: From its genesis in the Victorian era as an activity for the elite to today's emphasis on "Big Data" and continuous monitoring, natural history has a prominent role in scientific discoveries for many fields. However, participation in field expeditions is limited by funding, space, accessibility, and safety constraints. Others have detailed the active exclusion of minoritized groups from field expeditions and harm/discrimination faced by the few who do participate, but we provide one solution to broaden opportunities for participation in natural history: Virtual Expeditions. Virtual Expeditions are broadly defined as open source, web-facilitated research activities designed to analyze bulk-collected digital data from field expeditions that require visual human interpretation. We show two ex

SUBMITTER: Tanner RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9617212 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature