Caren uses geospatial analytics to discern large-scale patterns across the natural and built environments to gain insights into the ecology, evolution and conservation of birds, as well as expose racial and economic inequities in environmental hazards and in the representativeness of environmental data itself. She develops public science programs that focus volunteer interests towards the generation of large-scale data to study and visualize the interactions between social and ecological systems. Her other interests include the ecosystem services of trees and public understanding of urban forests, for mitigation of air, light and noise pollution, flood risk and urban heat island effects.

Roles

• Fellows

Publications

• Citizen Science as an Ecosystem of Engagement: Implications for Learning and Broadening Participation (2022)
• Citizen Science in Postsecondary Education: Current Practices and Knowledge Gaps (2022)
• Testing the Waters: Locally, Regionally, Globally (2022)
• The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associated Restrictions on Participation in Community and Citizen Science (2022)
• What is community-level environmental literacy, and how can we measure it? A report of a convening to conceptualize and operationalize CLEL (2022)
• Deconstructing incubation behaviour in response to ambient temperature over different timescales (2021)
• Do We Impact Neighboring Nests When Managing for House Sparrows on Nest- Box Trails? (2021)
• Inclusion in citizen science: The conundrum of rebranding (2021)
• Perspective: The power (dynamics) of open data in citizen science (2021)
• Public Science Scholars Flock Together: Nesting Anti-Racism Principles across the Participatory Sciences (2021)

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