Burlington, VT – Lake Champlain Sea Grant Extension Leader Dr. Kristine Stepenuck has been invited to talk about stream monitoring and volunteer citizen scientists during a live webcast public forum at the White House. The event is hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Domestic Policy Council.<\/p>\n
Dr. Stepenuck leads the Extension Program of the Lake Champlain Sea Grant at the University of Vermont and maintains a research program in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. Previously, she directed the Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program at the University of Wisconsin-Extension and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and \u00a0built the program from a purely educational endeavor to a broader program addressing education, management, and research needs. At the live webcast forum, she will present on her experience with volunteer water monitoring programs across the U.S. and the positive outcomes they have achieved.<\/p>\n
The live webcast, \u201cOpen Science and Innovation: Of the People, By the People, For the People,\u201d will be held on September 30, 2015, 8:00am \u2013 12:00pm at wh.gov\/live. You can also participate in the forum by sending in your thoughts, comments, and questions to @WhiteHouseOSTP using the hashtag #WHCitSci.<\/p>\n
For more information on Stepenuck’s research, refer to the following 2015 publications in the journals\u00a0Ecology and Society\u00a0and\u00a0Issues in Ecology: “Individual- and community-level impacts of volunteer environmental monitoring: a synthesis of peer-reviewed literature”<\/a> and “Investing in citizen science can improve natural resource management and environmental protection.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Burlington, VT – Lake Champlain Sea Grant Extension Leader Dr….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}