The Science Citizens Podcast

In this episode, we discuss together with Irene Bormans and Camille Janssen the difficulties of motivating and activating citizen scientists for Spot de Hotspot, a WaterLab project:...

In this episode I will take you along the Danube River, where we have started the project Danube4All: https://www.danube4allproject.eu/. Within a duration of total 5 years, we will be responsible to create inclusive...

In this episode, we discuss a large part of citizen science, namely science communication. For The Science Citizens, we actually did research into how we can effectively communicate about citizen science and our...

In this episode, I discuss how participatory modeling made a big difference in water management in Mexico. The story revolves around the phD research of Dr. Jonatan Godinez Madrigal who recently received the...

Past August I joined the second version of the Vliet Clean SUP, you know, a cleanup on a sup, stand up paddling. A good moment for me to use and try out some new methods for citizen science monitoring and recording....

In this episode I speak with Li An Phoa, who started the Drinkable Rivers Foundation. She proposes to use drinkable rivers, as a guiding principle for our societies, as a replacement of economic growth. Drinkable...

In this episode, I talk about coping with difficult situations caused by for example the corona pandemic and the amount of time that implementing citizen science takes while also having to do your PhD, and the...

In this episode, I discuss how we can use citizen science to get environmental justice. I invited Anne Berti Suman to join me during this episode. Dr. Anna Berti Suman is a postdoctoral researcher at the Tilburg...

In contrast to the case of bird counting I discussed in the previous episode, there are still sufficient citizen science programs that are not excepted as official data sources yet. In the past two years, I studied...

In this first episode, I kick off with the origins of citizen science: bird counting. By talking to Jelle Abma, citizen science coordinator at Sovon, we learn how they ensure that the counting program is successful...

Hear what this podcast is about! In a short piece, I explain why I made this podcast, and what I will do to keep you up to date on citizen science.    Music by Merijn Stap.