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A session on Citizen Science and Geoethics:
"From school and citizen seismology to geoethics"
Call for Abstracts
35th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission

IAPG promotes the Session 04 "From school and citizen seismology to geoethics" at the 35th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission, that takes place in Trieste (Italy) from 4 to 10 September 2016. The deadline for the abstract submission is 30 April 2016.

Conveners
Rémy Bossu, Paul Denton, Paul Earle, Giuseppe Di Capua

Session description
Internet and social networks have multiplied the direct interactions between individual seismologists and citizens. Observational seismology has entered schools where they can detect signals from large global earthquakes and do real science with real data. Doing real science is one of the goals of citizen science projects alongside augmenting data collection and crowdsourcing observations on earthquake phenomena. Today there is a convergence between scientific and educational seismology projects. Many institutes and individual scientists are active on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. Smartphone apps are replacing websites as the main source of rapid earthquake information.

Piazza Unità d'Italia, Trieste
(source: viaggi.corriere.it)

Communication has also expanded from rapid information to time evolving hazard, risk and even operational earthquake forecasts. These developments change the way we, as scientists interact with society. They present significant opportunities to transfer the value of scientific research to citizens, in order to avoid or minimize risky interaction as demonstrated by the l’Aquila trial.

We invite papers on schools, citizen science or public communications initiatives as well as analysis of their ethical, social and cultural implications.

How to submit an abstract:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/esc2016/abstract_management/how_to_submit.html

Deadline:
30 April 2016

Congress website:
http://www.35esc2016.eu/