Dr. Corey Callaghan Seminar

Join us on December 14th, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM at WSLR 116, in attending "People, Data & Discovery: How Participatory Science is Transforming Biodiversity Research," a seminar from Dr. Corey Callaghan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation at the University of Florida. Dr. Callaghan's research uses citizen science and big data to understand biodiversity and global change.

Participatory science platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird are transforming biodiversity research by connecting millions of people with the process of observing and documenting nature. The resulting observations provide an unprecedented window into biodiversity across species, ecosystems, and scales. But the transformation extends beyond simply generating more data. Who participates, what people notice, and where and when they observe nature shape both the biodiversity we document and the ecological questions we can ask. In this talk, Dr. Callaghan will explore this coupled system of people, biodiversity observations, and ecological discovery. Dr. Callaghan will show how participatory science complements traditional biodiversity monitoring, expands the spatial and taxonomic scope of ecological inquiry, and enables new discoveries about species distributions, interactions, and responses to global change.

Any interested audience member is invited to attend. Anyone interested in meeting Dr. Callaghan is encouraged to contact either of the hosts, Dr. Kyle Horton or Dr. Dylan Osterhaus.