@article{allf_cooper_larson_dunn_futch_sharova_cavalier_2022, title={Citizen Science as an Ecosystem of Engagement: Implications for Learning and Broadening Participation}, volume={72}, ISSN={0006-3568 1525-3244}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac035}, DOI={10.1093/biosci/biac035}, abstractNote={Abstract
               <jats:p>The bulk of research on citizen science participants is project centric, based on an assumption that volunteers experience a single project. Contrary to this assumption, survey responses (n = 3894) and digital trace data (n = 3649) from volunteers, who collectively engaged in 1126 unique projects, revealed that multiproject participation was the norm. Only 23% of volunteers were singletons (who participated in only one project). The remaining multiproject participants were split evenly between discipline specialists (39%) and discipline spanners (38% joined projects with different disciplinary topics) and unevenly between mode specialists (52%) and mode spanners (25% participated in online and offline projects). Public engagement was narrow: The multiproject participants were eight times more likely to be White and five times more likely to hold advanced degrees than the general population. We propose a volunteer-centric framework that explores how the dynamic accumulation of experiences in a project ecosystem can support broad learning objectives and inclusive citizen science.}, number={7}, journal={BioScience}, publisher={Oxford University Press (OUP)}, author={Allf, Bradley C and Cooper, Caren B and Larson, Lincoln R and Dunn, Robert R and Futch, Sara E and Sharova, Maria and Cavalier, Darlene}, year={2022}, month={Jun}, pages={651–663} }
 @article{larson_cooper_futch_singh_shipley_dale_lebaron_takekawa_2020, title={The diverse motivations of citizen scientists: Does conservation emphasis grow as volunteer participation progresses?}, volume={242}, ISSN={0006-3207}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108428}, DOI={10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108428}, journal={Biological Conservation}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Larson, Lincoln R. and Cooper, Caren B. and Futch, Sara and Singh, Devyani and Shipley, Nathan J. and Dale, Kathy and LeBaron, Geoffrey S. and Takekawa, John Y.}, year={2020}, month={Feb}, pages={108428} }