Exploring Citizen Science with the National Biodiversity Network (Part 3)
May 26, 2016
In the final post of a three-part series, Ben Brown describes some of the insights he gained from his placement. For my placement we negotiated a bespoke project from scratch (as the NBN do not run a formal internship programme) the scope of which proved far too ambitious for the three-month timescale. One thing I learnt from …
Exploring Citizen Science with the National Biodiversity Network (Part 2)
May 19, 2016
In the second of a three-part series, Ben Brown describes some of the insights he gained from his placement. Correspondents with the National Biodiversity Network (NBN) are often surprised to discover it’s not the monolithic body they may have imagined. While on placement I came to realise that rather than running a strict hierarchical machine, so much …
Exploring Citizen Science with the National Biodiversity Network (Part 1)
May 12, 2016
In the first of a three-part series, Ben Brown describes some of the opportunities his placement presented to him. My motives for wanting to do a placement with the National Biodiversity Network (NBN) were fairly direct; I saw a potentially untapped route to gaining more information for my own research into citizen science and publicly collected data. …
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