hawaii pacific gis conference 2012: gis for citizen engagement - hawaii coqui crawl project -...
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The mythos of the researcher
Monitoring – Long-term Value
• The information never goes out of date • The information NOT collected now can NOT be
collected later • I and M data are used many times by many
people • I and M data creates the foundation for Research
and Researchers • The names and legacies of these people are kept
in our memories • Many are NOT professionals
Counting Crickets with Cell
Phones: How we Harnessed New Yorkers’ Favorite Tool
During the NYC Cricket Crawl
Lou Sorkin, Sam Droege, Elizabeth Johnson,
John Pickering, Tammy Pittman, Emily Sweet
Goals
• Collect scientifically defensible data about “singing” Orthoptera in metro region
– Survey 7 easy to ID species
– Look for Common True Katydid colonies
• William T. Davis mentions them being absent [The True Katydid nearly extinct in New York City] in the early part of last century, published in the Journal of the New York Entomological Society. Vol. 28(1), March 1920)
More Goals
• Engage the public in data collection – have scientific, non-scientific groups, and citizens work
together
– generate excitement and intrigue to lure people into going outside, thinking about nature, and possibly pursuing natural history study
• Test out new citizen science protocols
– people sending in data immediately from the field
– entering and displaying data by the end of the night
More, More Goals
• Integrate art into a scientific venture
• Set an example for what other groups could replicate elsewhere
• Do it for 0 dollars
• Have fun
Quick Overview
• September 12, 2009 – rain date
• Advertised via list serves, facebook, emails, other PR
• Data quality
– selected 7 relatively easy to ID species
– set up website with training materials, audio files
– encouraged group survey (allowing folks to confer on ID)
– expert field confirmation of questionable submissions
Participation
• ~ 400 sites surveyed
• ~ 300 individuals involved – Most people went out in small groups
• Families went home afterwards
• Other people went out to bars afterwards
• Some worked overnight into the morning
• Some ??
Data Submission
• Information submitted: – Observer name, exact location, time, species
heard
• Phone message (converted to .mp3file) or email linked to drop.io box and picked up by workers at Cricket Crawl HQ
• Data entered by people at Cricket Crawl HQ and on the Internet – listen, transcribe
Maps of the Results
• Generated by John Pickering at the University of Georgia
• Programmed to update every 10 minutes throughout the night
Orocharis saltator Jumping Bush Cricket
• Common species
• Potentially some confusion with Snowy Tree Crickets (not included in the survey) and with Fall Field Crickets
• Not mentioned by Davis as present during his time
Clicking on a Dot Shows you the Data and if there was a phone call you can play it to
hear the observer
Pterophylla camellifolia Common True Katydid
• Large clumsy species that appears in small colonies
• Essentially doesn’t fly
• Disappeared from Staten Island in the early part of the last century
• Only reappeared lately (re: Paul Lederer and co. work)
• Unclear how long present on Manhattan
• Distribution clumped, but present in some very small woodlots (re: Marie Winn’s)
• Follow-up to confirm some localities
needed
Things People Liked ….
• Being outside at night looking at something they thought they knew, but really didn’t
• Sending in data with their cell phone
• Being part of an event
• Learning about crickets and katydids in general
• Dociostaurus (Dociostaurus) maroccanus (Thunberg, 1815)
• Gomphocerus plebejus Stål, 1861
• Gryllidae
• Anele ulia Otte, Carvalho & Shaw, 2003
• Caconemobius albus Otte, 1994
• Caconemobius anahulu Otte, 1994
• Caconemobius fori Gurney & Rentz, 1978
• Caconemobius howarthi Gurney & Rentz, 1978
• Caconemobius nihoensis Otte, 1994
• Caconemobius paralbus Otte, 1994
• Caconemobius sandwichensis Otte, 1994
• Caconemobius uuku Otte, 1994
• Caconemobius varius Gurney & Rentz, 1978
• Laupala cerasina Otte, 1994
• Laupala eukolea Otte, 1994
• Laupala eupacifica Otte, 1994
• Laupala fugax Otte, 1994
• Laupala hapapa Otte, 1994
• Laupala hualalai Otte, 1994
• Laupala kai Otte, 1994
• Laupala kanaele Otte, 1994
• Laupala kauaiensis Otte, 1994
• Laupala kohalensis Otte, 1994
• Laupala kokeensis Otte, 1994
• Laupala kolea Otte, 1994
• Laupala koloa Otte, 1994
• Laupala kona Otte, 1994
• Laupala lanaiensis Otte, 1994
• Laupala makaio Shaw, 2000
• Laupala makaweli Otte, 1994
• Laupala media Otte, 1994
• Laupala mediaspisa Otte, 1994
• Laupala melewiki Shaw, 2000
• Laupala molokaiensis Otte, 1994
• Laupala neospisa Otte, 1994
• Laupala nigra Otte, 1994
• Laupala nui Otte, 1994
• Laupala oahuensis Otte, 1994
• Laupala olohena Otte, 1994
• Laupala pacifica Otte, 1994
• Laupala paranigra Otte, 1994
• Laupala parapacifica Otte, 1994
• Laupala paraprosea Otte, 1994
• Laupala prosea Otte, 1994
• Laupala pruna Otte, 1994
• Laupala spisa Otte, 1994
• Laupala tantalis Otte, 1994
• Laupala vespertina Otte, 1994
• Laupala waikemoi Otte, 1994
• Laupala wailua Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus apicalis Perkins, 1910
• Leptogryllus deceptor Perkins, 1910
• Leptogryllus elongatus Perkins, 1899
• Leptogryllus forficularis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895)
• Leptogryllus fusconotatus Perkins, 1899
• Leptogryllus hanaula Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus haupu Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus kaala Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus kainalu Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus kauaiensis Perkins, 1899
• Leptogryllus kawela Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus kipahulu Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus kohala Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus lanaiensis Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus luteus Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus mauiensis Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus mauumae Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus molokai Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus montgomeri Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus nigrolineatus (Perkins, 1899)
• Leptogryllus nigromaculatus Perkins, 1899
• Leptogryllus oahuensis Otte, 1994
• Leptogryllus ookala Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus inexspectatus Perkins, 1899
• Prognathogryllus kahea Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus kahili Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus kipahulu Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus kohala Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus kukui Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus makai Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus makakapua Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus mauka Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus oahuensis Perkins, 1899
• Prognathogryllus olympus Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus opua Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus parakahili Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus parakukui Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus pararobustus Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus pihea Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus puna Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus robustus Perkins, 1899
• Prognathogryllus spadix Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus stridulans (Perkins, 1899)
• Prognathogryllus victoriae Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus waikemoi Otte, 1994
• Prognathogryllus weli Otte, 1994
• Prolaupala kaalensis Otte, 1994
• Prolaupala kukui Otte, 1994
• Prolaupala perkinsi Otte, 1994
• Thaumatogryllus cavicola Gurney & Rentz, 1978
• Thaumatogryllus conanti Otte, 1994
• Thaumatogryllus mauiensis Otte, 1994
• Thaumatogryllus variegatus Perkins, 1899
• Trigonidium acuste Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium ahiu Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium aka Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium akaka Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium alina Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium alternatum (Perkins, 1899)
• Trigonidium anoe Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium atroferrugineum (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895)
• Trigonidium attenuatum (Perkins, 1899)
• Trigonidium awawa Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium awiwi Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium crepitans (Perkins, 1899)
• Trigonidium debile (Perkins, 1899)
• Trigonidium eumeles Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium excultatum Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium exiguum Perkins, 1899
• Trigonidium exuberans Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium filicum (Perkins, 1899)
• Trigonidium flectens Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium fortuitum Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium freycinetiae (Perkins, 1899)
• Trigonidium fritinnium Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium grande (Perkins, 1899)
• Trigonidium haawina Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium halulu Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium hamakua Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium hamumu Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium hapapa Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium haupu Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium hehelo Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium hoahoa Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium hoku Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium holomua Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium hopo Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium huapala Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium hyperkona Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium iao Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium ignavum Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium illex Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium imitans Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium improbum Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium incongruum Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium iuka Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium mahina Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium makani Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium makanina Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium makapala Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium makau Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium malanai Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium mana Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium manuka Carvalho & Otte, 2006
• Trigonidium mauiensis Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium mauka Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium mokuleia Carvalho & Otte, 2006
• Trigonidium molokaiense (Perkins, 1899)
• Trigonidium nani Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium napua Carvalho & Otte, 2006
• Trigonidium nele Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium neogrande Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium neokukui Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium neovarians Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium novagintum Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium novena Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium octavum Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium octonalis Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium ohaka Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium ola Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium olomea Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium ookala Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium opua Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium pahiwa Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium palai Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium paramana Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium paranoe Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium paranoho Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium paraspilos Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium paroctonalis Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium pavida Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium pipili Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium pololu Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium proalina Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium procrustum Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium promana Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium pseudokua Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium pseudoli Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium pseudonoe Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium pudicum Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium puiwa Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium puukani Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium robustum Perkins, 1899
• Trigonidium roseum (Perkins, 1899)
• Trigonidium saltator (Perkins, 1899)
• Trigonidium septimum Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium sextum Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium sibilans Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium silvicola Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium spilos Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium subroseum (Perkins, 1899)
• Trigonidium sylvaticum Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium triens Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium ua Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium ulaino Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium varians (Perkins, 1899)
• Trigonidium venatum Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium virens Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium viridiscens (Perkins, 1899)
• Trigonidium wahoi Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium wai Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium waialina Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium waikua Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium waimea Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium waipuna Otte, 1994
• Trigonidium wiki Otte, 1994
• Myrmecophilidae
• Myrmecophilus (Myrmecophilus) quadrispina Perkins, 1899
• Tettigoniidae
Sam Droege – [email protected]