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  • How could there be help in structuring community engagement through technology or technological activities (e.g. QR codes on trees to identify their species)
    • One solution would be to create a sign for those who get off the ferry, many already have cameras with them.
    • Microclimate monitoring framework (arduino chip sets with sensors, where the nodes are all networked together).
  • What relationship do you have with the devs of iNaturalist
    • The program came out of a masters research project. It's an innovation of the California acadamey of sciences.
  • Do you communicate with them about improvements to their platform.
    • It is open source, and they communicate over a google group
  • Diagram of spider species
    • It was available through D3, but modified with the help of a JavaScript developer
  • How do you update the links to in the spider diagram?
    • Manually inputed using Javascript
  • Is there something you'd like to do that's just out of reach (e.g. technologically, engagement, etc. )
    • There is a particular D3 visualization (sunburst), and others that would be helpful to represent the data.
  • What is the hardest thing for people to engage with citizen science and how they can be connected to scientific research?
    • People do engage with confirming species. Similar drive to what people have when using Pokemon Go.
    • The momentum of the project is around documenting species, but not everyone is interested in this.
    • Another idea was to use algae to make art work
    • not everything has to become data in the end, should find frameworks to pair up personal goals.
  • Are there other art projects
    • There was a piƱata project
  • How did you first get going?
    • Support by pillars with the community who wanted to support his undergraduate research
    • Was writing regularly in the actives page, encouraged people to explore and learn
    • Community inventories of natural areas
    • mini-bioblitzes; fewer people no experts. Culminated last May into a full BioBlitz
    • Galiano is a population of approximately 900 people
  • How do initially engage people, how do you instruct them on the process.
    • The framework before was with lists. People are already come to the island with cameras but they aren't guided. Signs would help with that.
    • Through community events.