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Rick Bonney is director of program development and evaluation at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where he has worked for 31 years. During that time he has received more than 20 awards from the National Science Foundation to develop and evaluate projects focused on various aspects of public engagement in science. These awards have included program and curriculum development, professional development, exhibit development, and program research and evaluation. Working in the field of citizen science, Rick co-founded the Lab’s citizen science program and started many of its current citizen science projects. He is founder and director of the website www.citizenscience.org; he is co-editor of the book Citizen Science, published by Cornell University Press; and he was Principal Investigator of two NSF-funded workshops designed to identify best practices in citizen science project development, implementation, and evaluation. He is also a founder of the Citizen Science Association and is serving on its first board of directors. Rick also seeks to understand the social and learning outcomes of public engagement in science. He was lead of the CAISE inquiry group on citizen science in 2009 and editor of the PI Guide to Managing Evaluation in Informal STEM Education Projects published by the Center for the Advancement of Informal Science Education in 2012. His team at the Lab of Ornithology is currently developing customizable tools for evaluating the impacts of participating in a range of citizen science project models and is employing these tools in the evaluation of several citizen science projects around North America.

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Associate Editors

Caren Cooper is an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University in the Chancellor's Faculty Excellence Program in Leadership in Public Science. Caren has over 60 publications, many that relied on data from citizen science projects and many in collaboration with social scientists to study citizen scientists. Caren's current citizen science projects include Sparrow Swap, Sound Around Town, and Crowd the Tap. She is author of Citizen Science: How Ordinary People Are Changing the Face of Discovery. Caren is a Senior Fellow in the Environmental Leadership Program and director of research partnerships at SciStarter.org. She can be followed on Twitter @CoopSciScoop.

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Board Members

Heidi Ballard is Associate Professor of Environmental Science Education at University of California, Davis. She conducts research focused on science and environmental education that link communities, scientists, and environmental action. Her work focuses on what and how both adults and youth learn through public participation in scientific research (PPSR), including citizen science and community-based participatory research focused on using science for environmental justice. She works in varied contexts, from natural history museums to Ugandan farmer field schools to native plant and tide-pool monitoring in California, using primarily qualitative research methods in partnership with citizen science practitioners. Her publications span the fields of environmental education, science education, ecology, conservation, social science, forestry, and agriculture. Heidi was a high school biology teacher and science curriculum developer in California, as well as outdoor and environmental educator, before earning her Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy and Management focused on forest ecology and management and community-based forestry. She trains primary and secondary pre-service teachers in science and environmental education, science education Ph.D. students, and graduate students across the university in participatory action research methods. She serves on several advisory boards for citizen science research and implementation projects, and on the Governance Council of the University of California’s Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California.

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Eva Lewandowski is the Citizen-based Monitoring Coordinator at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, where she coordinates a statewide citizen science network and co-coordinates the Wisconsin Bumble Bee Brigade. She has published research on citizen science outcomes and data quality, is a member of the national Citizen Science Day Task Force, and is President of the Participatory and Citizen Science Working Group for the Society for Conservation Biology. She earned a PhD in Conservation Biology from the University of Minnesota.

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