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This is a great time to be involved with Citizen Science at the Urban Ecology Center. Our work
has had such an impact over the last few years regionally, across the state, and across the country.
On a local scale, long-term volunteer Robin Squire and one of our high school Outdoor Leaders
Ethan Bot teamed together with a bunch of our partners to make Milwaukee a bird city.
It required a lot of effort and it was approved unanimously and we are now the largest city
in the state in this program and it has just been a fabulous effort by our volunteers.
On a regional level, I am so excited about the work of our Young Scientists at Washington
Park. We were able to send fourth- through seventh-graders to the University of Minnesota
to present their research at a conference among their peers and the Center is involved
in that program called Driven to Discover, we are part of the advisory team. And the
experiences that we were able to provide for those kids—and the work that they did—was
phenomenal. On an international level, the Center continues to lead the new field of
Citizen Science and public participation in scientific research. Last fall, we presented
our work at the first big-scale Citizen Science conference in Portland, and now the Center
is on the Conference Steering Committee for the next one, and we are really excited to
present the work that we do here in Milwaukee to the world.