Tales of Tiger Beetles and Other Citizen Sciences

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¹ Our research team has partnered with SciStarter to publish a series of book reviews dedicated to citizen science and has previously reviewed The Incidental Steward, Citizen Science, Citizen Scientist, and Diary of a Citizen Scientist. Our reviews appear on the Public Library of Science Citizen Sci blog, Discover Magazine’s “Citizen Science Salon,” and SciStarter. More information can be found at uwaterloo.ca/scholar/arkelly/research-team. The Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Science’s Early Research Award program, and also the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant program have supported this work; views in this review represent those of the researchers, not the supporting organizations.

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Danielle B. Griffin

Danielle B. Griffin is a BA student in the Honors English program at the University of Waterloo, who is studying the literature and rhetoric plan with a digital media specialization and cognitive science minor. Her current research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to cognition and language, with an emphasis on computational methods.

Lillian A. Black

Lillian A. Black is a master’s student in English—rhetoric and communication design at the University of Waterloo. Their research interests include the cognitive and semiotic aspects of rhetoric—particularly rhetorical figures—the implementation and pedagogical implications of multidisciplinary postsecondary education, and the manifestation of expertise and credibility across genres of scientific discourse, with an emphasis on print and digital mediums.

Patricia Balbon

Patricia Balbon is a BS student in the Honors Science program at the University of Waterloo taking the society, technology, and values option with a biology minor. She was the 2016 Policy and Practices Lead for Waterloo’s team in the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition. Her current research is in the policy network of gain-of-function research regulation.

Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher

Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, author of Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet (forthcoming), and coeditor of Emerging Genres in New Media Environments (as Ashley R. Kelly, 2017).