Addressing real-world problems through citizen science
Global Field Program (GFP) graduate Safiya Sabir '21 of New York, New York, was published in NSTA's Connected Science Learning.
Addressing real-world problems through citizen science
Global Field Program (GFP) graduate Safiya Sabir '21 of New York, New York, was published in NSTA's Connected Science Learning. In the article Sabir helps educators identify what's needed to organize a community bioblitz. A bioblitz—a biological survey that brings together students, teachers, parents, and scientists—is a great way to introduce citizen science and get communities outside learning about local habitats. "With the help of web-based citizen science projects like bioblitzes, scientists and the global public can have access to vast catalogues of useful data about the natural world," Sabir writes.
As a student in ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú's biology department, Sabir earned a Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) in the Biological Sciences through Project Dragonfly's GFP while working as the Director of Public ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú at a science museum in Bronx, New York.