Lea Shanley

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the two interwoven paths by which citizen science can improve conservation efforts, natural resource management, and environmental protection, and describe the investments needed to create a citizen science program.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a roadmap that outlines how citizen science can be integrated into the formal sustainable development goals reporting mechanisms, which will require leadership from the United Nations, innovation from National Statistical Offices and focus from the citizen-science community to identify the indicators for which citizen scientists can make a real contribution.

TL;DR: In this article, a brief overview of the emerging legal and ethical issues within crisis mapping is provided, which is an inter-disciplinary field that aggregates crowd-generated input data, such as social media feeds and photographs, with geographic data to provide real-time, interactive information in support of disaster management and humanitarian relief.

TL;DR: Nova GQ Muscae 1983 was detected by ROSAT as a luminous supersoft X-ray source in 1992, nearly a decade after outburst, and follow-up observations were made with the ROSAT position-sensitive proportional counter in 1993 January and September, and complemented with B-band photometry taken in1993 January as mentioned in this paper.