We are developing a new Citizen Science Portal.
The AMBER citizen science portal is currently under maintenance. If you have any questions regarding the Citizen Science or the barrier tracker application please contact us.
Why citizen science?
Citizen science has become a popular tool for research projects in many scientific fields. Citizen science relies on crowdsourcing and provides some great opportunities to strengthen research projects. The most important of these opportunities include the acquisation of more data, being able to undertake public engagement with science and increased cost effectiveness compared to monitoring by professionals.Citizen science & AMBER
Citizen science is an important component of the AMBER project. One of the major outputs of the project is compiling a pan-European atlas of barriers. This is done by combining existing databases supplemented with new data gathered by citizens. Furthermore the AMBER citizen science program is meant to engage with the public on the topic of barriers and their impacts.How does it work?
The LET IT FLOW citizen science program includes a smartphone application and citizen science webportal.With the smartphone application, called “Barrier tracker”, participants can record new barriers into a database. Using a smartphone application in the citizen science program allows for the gathering of more data and greater spatial coverage of records than would have been possible using conventional surveys. Participants can use the smartphone application when encountering a barrier and contribute data to the general database. Typical data gathered includes a photo of the barrier, the location of the barrier and the height of the barrier.
The Barrier tracker app is combined with a citizen science webportal. Through this website citizens can interact with the data gathered throught the Barrier tracker app and participate in further research of the AMBER project. Users are able to identify the barrier type of records uploaded and learn about the impact of barriers on streams and rivers.
Watch the introductory video below to see how you can use the app.