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Amy Freitag is an academic researcher from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The author has contributed to research in topics: Citizen science & Ecosystem services. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 27 publications. Previous affiliations of Amy Freitag include Cornell University & California Ocean Science Trust.
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Earth Stewardship: science for action to sustain the human-earth system
F. Stuart Chapin,Mary E. Power,Steward T. A. Pickett,Amy Freitag,Julie A. Reynolds,Robert B. Jackson,David M. Lodge,Clifford S. Duke,Scott L. Collins,Alison G. Power,Ann M. Bartuska +10 more
TL;DR: Earth Stewardship as discussed by the authors is an initiative of the Ecological Society of America to provide the scientific basis for actively shaping trajectories of social-ecological change to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being.
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Making marine and coastal citizen science matter
TL;DR: In 2014, a combined symposium and focus group at the International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC) considered the challenges and opportunities for mobilizing citizen science in the marine and coastal environment as mentioned in this paper.
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Strategies Employed by Citizen Science Programs to Increase the Credibility of Their Data
Amy Freitag,Ryan Meyer,Liz Whiteman +2 more
- 20 May 2016
TL;DR: This paper surveyed the credibility-building strategies of 30 citizen science programs that monitor environmental aspects of the California coast, and identified a total of twelve strategies: three that are applied during training and planning; four that were applied during data collection; and five that were used during data analysis and program evaluation.
Phylogenetic ecology of leaf surface traits in the milkweeds (Asclepias spp.): chemistry, ecophysiology, and insect behavior.
Anurag Agrawal,Mark Fishbein,Reinhard Jetter,Juha-Pekka Salminen,Jessica Goldstein,Amy Freitag,Jed P. Sparks +6 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that trichomes are a more evolutionarily titratable strategy than pubescence and glaucousness, which have evolved as alternative mechanisms with similar functions in the milkweeds.
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A typology for strategies to connect citizen science and management.
TL;DR: This review finds cases where the citizen science–management link is explicitly discussed and places each case into a meta-analysis framework that will help define some general successful approaches to forming such a link.
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