Amanda E. Sorensen

TL;DR: It is found that citizen scientists, with minimal education and training, were able to accurately collect data that reflect trends found in a comparable researcher-generated database.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used ecological sampling techniques and resident narratives together to tell a rich story about how racist housing and planning policies led to landscapes dominated by abandoned buildings, vacant lots, and sanitation problems, which in turn sustain invasive Aedes albopictus mosquitoes that bite and can transmit disease.

TL;DR: Using pre-post drawing task assessments, the hypothesis that after completing a PMC-evidence and explanation-rich ecology curriculum, students would create more mechanistic explanatory models is tested and found that post-intervention students created more mechanistically oriented models and in the post-hoc analysis found that model sophistication correlated with course achievement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate what aspects of individuals' environmental knowledge, environmental identity, demographics, views of and engagement in their community, and current civic stewardship might predict willingness to engage in restoration stewardship activities.