Welcome to the FieldScope quarterly newsletter! You are receiving this because you may have attended a FieldScope event or signed up for an account to participate in a citizen or community science project hosted on FieldScope. In this newsletter, we aim to keep you updated on new features of the Fieldscope tool, opportunities for training, and more. |
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FIELDSCOPE PARTICIPANT SURVEY |
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We’re always looking to improve the FieldScope platform to support science and learning! We invite you to take this short survey about your experience with FieldScope. We believe that your valuable input will help us continue to improve the FieldScope user experience for everyone. As a thank you for your assistance, inside the survey you can enter a giveaway for a chance to win free gear from the BSCS Science Learning online store. |
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WAIT, WHAT IS FIELDSCOPE? |
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If you’re not yet a FieldScope whiz, check out this overview video. |
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Designing, launching and managing a citizen science project in FieldScope
Join us to learn how you can launch your citizen science or community science project on FieldScope, including how to customize your project’s protocol and data entry form, how to manage members and the data they contribute, and how to share, visualize and analyze data from your project. We will also cover how to import datasets into a FieldScope project, as many organizations are now using the FieldScope tool to engage audiences in learning and analysis with data.
When: Monday, August 23 at 3:30 PM EST (12:30 Pacific, 1:30 Mountain, 2:30 Central)
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Creating shareable visualizations in FieldScope for communicating your data
Join us for an introduction to the data visualization and analysis tools that are part of the FieldScope platform used by citizen and community science projects. We will cover how you create, save and share data stories that include different data display types like maps, tables, bar charts, and scatter plots; how big data sets can be filtered to show data from selected areas, groups, or date ranges; and how visualizations can be embedded into your own website.
When: Thursday, August 26 at 12:30 PM EST (9:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 Mountain, 11:30 Central)
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These webinars will be recorded and shared on the FieldScope Facebook page and Vimeo channel.
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WHAT'S NEW IN FIELDSCOPE? |
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As we progress through 2021, the FieldScope team continues to launch new and exciting features and enhancements to the tool. Here are a few highlights!
Updated FieldScope Website
The FieldScope.org website has gotten a refresh and update! Find resources and links on the new site to see a list of all FieldScope projects, learn how to launch a project, find teaching resources and more.
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Search on Maps
Now anytime you are interacting with a map in FieldScope, whether to add a new station location to upload your data or creating a visualization of your own, you can use a map search toolbar to help you navigate! Just type in your intended location and select from the results!
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Filter by Organization or Group
A new type of filter has been added that you can use to select one or more organizations or groups to filter by. This can be helpful if you want to just see on a map or graph all data added from people from your school or organization or from a group. FrogWatch members can filter by chapter using the Group option.
In this way, you can create a filter set for your chapter just once and add it to a visualization that you can save and share where you will always see the most updated data from your organization, group, or chapter.
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PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: LOKO EA |
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A new FieldScope project recently launched in Hawai’i to support an on-going community science project at the Loko ea fishponds on Oahu’s North Shore. A 7th grade science unit was also co-designed with teachers and staff from BSCS Science Learning to support classroom participation in this project.
The NGSS-aligned place-based middle school science unit explores management strategies that could be used for the Loko ea fishpond to sustainably feed people and ensure the ecosystem is healthy and pono (balanced). This unit honors and leverages traditional and scientific ways of knowing to create experiences that connect students to ‘āina (land) through investigations of place.
Access the FieldScope project here or check out the instructional unit here. |
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration funded the co-design and field-testing of this unit through their B-WET program.
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INTERESTED IN LAUNCHING YOUR PROJECT IN FIELDSCOPE? |
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FieldScope is designed for citizen and community science projects that can benefit from having mobile-friendly data collection forms that participants can use to enter their data (including photos) and then engage with the data in maps, tables, graphs, and data downloads. Are you interested in launching your project on FieldScope? Check out this article on how to do so, and reach out to us to get started at info@fieldscope.org. |
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We’re not stopping here. This year, we will continue to enhance the FieldScope platform to make it as useful as possible for the FieldScope community. What can you expect to see added to FieldScope in Fall 2021 and 2022?
- More tools for collaboration and sharing within and across projects
- Options for an offline data entry mode (for when participants want to collect data outside on phones or tablets but are disconnected from cell signal or Wi-Fi)
- New options for teacher accounts with students and student groups nested underneath
- Additional enhancements to data analysis and visualization tools, such as dynamic displays of change over time and the ability to embed FieldScope visualizations in external websites
What features would you most like to see in the new FieldScope? Let us know in our new Feature Request channel in the FieldScope community forums. |
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CALLING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE TEACHERS |
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Are you a high school environmental sciences teacher interested in engaging students in scientific research that applies to their everyday lives? Do you live in a city with issues of lead-in-drinking-water? Become a Crowd the Tap Teacher!
Learn more about this project here. |
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