AKN Publications
2011
Fink, D., and W.M. Hochachka. 2011. Mining information from citizen
science data: The use of new analytical techniques for exploratory
analysis of broad-scale observational data. (to appear in CITIZEN
SCIENCE: PUBLIC COLLABORATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH edited by
Dickinson, J. and Bonney, R. Cornell University press)
Hochachka, W.M., D. Fink, and B. Zuckerberg. 2011. Use of citizen
science monitoring for pattern discovery and biological inference (to
appear in Design and Analysis of Long-term Ecological Monitoring
Studies edited by Gitzen, R.A., Millspaugh, J.J., Cooper, A.B., and
Licht, D.S. Cambridge University Press)
Kelling, S. 2011. Using Bioinformatics In Citizen Science. (to appear
in CITIZEN SCIENCE: PUBLIC COLLABORATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
edited by Dickinson, J. and Bonney, R. Cornell University press)
2010
Boakes, E.H., P.J.K. McGowan, R.A. Fuller, D. Chang-qing, N.E. Clark,
K. O'Conner, and G.M. Mace. 2010. Distorted Views of Biodiversity:
Spatial and Temporal Bias in Species Occurrence Data. PLoS
Biol 8(6): e1000385. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000385
Bolaños, M. R., V. Sánchez-Cordero, M.A. Gurrola Hidalgo, J.A. Iglesias Hernández, G.E. Magaña-Cota and F. J. Botello López. 2010. First record of the Crested Guan (Penelope purpurascens) in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n.s.) 26(1): 237-241.
Conrad, C.C., and K.G. Hilchey. 2010. A review of citizen science and community-based environmental monitoring: issues and opportunities. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. DOI 10.1007/s10661-010-1582-5.
Cooper, C. B., and J. A. Smith. 2010. Gender patterns in bird-related recreation in the USA and UK. Ecology and Society 15(4): 4. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art4/
Devictor, V., R.J. Whittaker, and C. Beltrame. Beyond scarcity: citizen science programmes as useful tools for conservation biogeography. Diversity and Distributions 16:3 354–362
Fink, D., Hochachka, W. M., B. Zuckerberg, D. W. Winkler, B. Shaby,
M.A. Munson, G.J. Hooker, M. Riedewald, D. Sheldon, and S.
Kelling. 2010. Spatiotemporal Exploratory models for Broad-scale
Survey Data. Ecological Applications 20(8): 2131-2147.
Jablonski, K.E., S.A. McNulty, and M.D. Schlesinger. 2010. A Digital
Spot-mapping Method for Avian Field Studies. The Wilson Journal of
Ornithology 122(4):772-776.
Marris, E. 2010. Birds flock online: Supercomputer time will help ornithologists make ecological sense of millions of records of bird sightings. Nature. Published online 10 August 2010. (http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100810/full/news.2010.395.html). doi:10.1038/news.2010.395
Munson, M.A., R. Caruana, D. Fink, W.M. Hochachka, M. Iliff, K. Rosenberg, D. Sheldon, B. Sullivan, C. Wood, and S. Kelling. 2010. A Method for Measuring the Relative Information Content of Data from Different Monitoring Protocols. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2010(1): 263-273.
Munson, M.A., K. Webb, D. Sheldon, D. Fink, W.M. Hochachka, M. Iliff, M. Riedewald, D. Sorokina, B.L. Sullivan, C.L. Wood, and S. Kelling. The eBird Reference Dataset, Version 2.0. Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, Ithaca, NY, June 2010.
Swarthout, S.B., K.V. Rosenberg, T.C. Wil, and M.I. Moreno. 2008. A collaborative web-based recording program for housing records of migratory birds during non-breeding periods in Central and South America. Ornitologia Neotropical 19:531-539
Wiersma, Y.F. 2010. Birding 2.0: citizen science and effective monitoring in the Web 2.0 world. Avian Conservation and Ecology 5(2): 13. [online] URL: http://www.ace-eco.org/vol5/iss2/art13/
Yaukey, P.H. 2010. Citizen-science and bird-distribution data: an opportunity for geographical research. The Geographical Review 100:2 263-273.
Yu, J., W.K. Wong, and R. Hutchinson. 2010. Modeling experts and novices in citizen science data for species distribution modeling. Page in Press. IEEE international Conference on Data Mining. IEEE, Sydney, Australia. Technical report available: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/18806.
2009
Bonney, R., C. Cooper, J. Dickinson, S. Kelling, T. Phillips, K. Rosenberg, and J. Shirk. 2009. Citizen Science: A Developing Tool for Expanding Science Knowledge and Scientific Literacy. BioScience 59:11 977–984.
Iliff, M., L. Salas, E.R. Inzunza, G. Ballard, D. Lepage, and S.
Kelling. 2009. The Avian Knowledge Network: A Partnership to Organize,
Analyze, and Visualize Bird Observation Data for Education,
Conservation, Research, and Land Management. Proceedings of the Fourth
International Partners in Flight Conference: Tundra to Tropics
365–373.
Kelling, S., W.M. Hochachka, D. Fink, M. Riedewald, R. Caruana, G.
Ballard, and G. Hooker. 2009. Data-intensive Science: A New Paradigm
for Biodiversity Studies. BioScience, 59: 613-620.
Kelling, S., D. Fink, W.M. Hochachka, M.J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan,
C.L. Wood, A. Munson, and M. Riedewald. 2009. Obtaining new insights
for biodiversity conservation from broad-scale citizen science data.
Nature Precedings. doi:10.1038/npre.2009.3967.1
Martin, E., B.G. Peterjohn, and S. Kelling. 2009. Gathering, Organizing
and Accessing Data for Use in Bird Conservation across the Americas.
Proceedings Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference: Tundra
to Tropics 388–393.
McCormack, J.E., A.J. Zellmer, and L.L. Knowles. 2009. Does niche
divergence accompany allopatric divergence in Aphelocoma jays
as predicted under ecological speciation?: insights from tests with
niche models. Evolution 64-5: 1231-1244.
doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00900.x
Miller, D.A., S.R. Crawford, T.D. Rich, and S. Kelling. 2009. Web
Mapping for Bird Conservation: Leveraging the Avian Knowledge Network.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference:
Tundra to Tropics 394–395.
Munson, M.A., K. Webb, D. Sheldon, D. Fink, W.M. Hochachka, M. Iliff,
M. Riedewald, D. Sorokina, B.L. Sullivan, C.L. Wood, and S. Kelling.
The eBird Reference Dataset, Version 1.0. Cornell Lab of Ornithology
and National Audubon Society, Ithaca, NY, June 2009.
Saracco, J.F., D.F. DeSante, M.P. Nott, W.M. Hochachka, S. Kelling, and
D. Fink. 2009. Integrated Bird Monitoring and the Avian Knowledge
Network: Using Multiple Data Resources to Understand Spatio‐temporal
Variation in Demographic Processes and Abundance. Proceedings of the
Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference: Tundra to Tropics
659–661.
Silvertown, J. 2009. A new dawn for citizen science. Trends in
Ecology & Evolution 24: 467–471.
Stralberg, D., D. Jongsomjit, C.A. Howell, M.A. Snyder, J.D.
Alexander, J.A. Wiens, and T.L. Root. 2009. Reshuffling of species with
climate disruption: a no-analog future for California birds? PLoS
ONE 4:e6825. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006825
Sullivan, B.L., S.T. Kelling, C.L. Wood, M.J. Iliff, D. Fink. G.
Ballard, M. Herzog, and D. Moody. 2009. Data exploration through
visualization tools. Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners
in Flight Conference: Tundra to Tropics 415–418.
Sullivan, B.L., C.L. Wood, M.J. Iliff, R.E. Bonney, D. Fink, and S.
Kelling. 2009. eBird: a citizen-based bird observation network in the
biological sciences. Biological Conservation 142:
2282-2292.
Wiens, J.A., D. Stralberg, D. Jongsomjit, C.A. Howell, and M.A.
Snyder. 2009. Niches, models, and climate change: Assessing the
assumptions and uncertainties. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
106:19729-19736.
2008
Cohn, J.P. 2008. Citizen Science: Can Volunteers Do Real Research?
BioScience, vol. 58:3 192–197.
Sorokina D., R. Caruana, M. Riedewald, and D. Fink. 2008. Detecting
Statistical Interactions with Additive Groves of Trees. In Proc.
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), pages
1000‐1007
2007
Thompson, S., and R. Bonney. 2007. Evaluating the Impacts of
Participation in an Online Citizen Science Project: A Mixed-methods
Approach. In Museums and the Web 2007: Selected Papers from an
International Conference. J. Trant and D. Bearman, eds. Toronto:
Archives & Museum Informatics 2007: 187-199.
2006
R. Caruana, M. Elhawary, A. Munson, M. Riedewald, D. Sorokina, D. Fink,
W. M. Hochachka, and S. Kelling. 2006. Mining citizen science data to
predict prevalence of wild bird species. In SIGKDD, 2006.
2005
Bart, J. Monitoring the abundance of bird populations. Auk
122:1 15-25.
2003
Levin, G.A., and M.H. Cragin. 2003. The Role of Information Science
in Gathering Biodiversity and Neuroscience Data. Bulletin of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology 30:1
Popular Publications:
Brinkley, E.S. 2008. The Changing Season: Cold enough for you? North American Birds 62(2): 204-210.
Brinkley, E.S. 2009. The Changing Season: Never a dull moment. North American Birds 63(2): 206-219.
Brinkley, E.S. 2009. The Changing Season: Cornucopia. North American Birds 63(1): 16-32.
Brinkley, E.S. 2010. The Changing Season: Provenance. North American Birds 64(1): 20-31.
Cruickshank, I., and R. Melcer Jr. 2010. Observation of a
Red-shouldered Hawk on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, during fall
migration. British Columbia Birds 20.
Fitzpatrick, J.W., F. Gill, M. Powers, J.V. Wells, and K.V. Rosenberg. 2002. Introducing eBird: The Union of Passion and Purpose. North American Birds 56:2 11-12.
Green, P, C. Wood, and B.L. Sullivan. 2005. Results Flood in to the Great Backyard Bird Count. BirdScope 19:2 8-9.
Iliff, M.J., B.L. Sullivan, and C.L. Wood. 2008. News from eBird - Reintroducing eBird. Birding 40(4):12.
Iliff, M.J., B.L. Sullivan, and C.L. Wood. 2008. News from eBird - Recording subspecies and more in eBird! Birding 40(5):13.
Iliff, M.J., B.L. Sullivan, and C.L. Wood. 2008. News from eBird – Make your daily ABA checklists more meaningful! Birding 40(6):12.
Iliff, M.J., B.L. Sullivan, and C.L. Wood. 2009. News from eBird – eBird Data Use. Birding 41(1):13.
Iliff, M.J., B.L. Sullivan, and C.L. Wood. 2009. News from eBird – eBird Checklist Sharing. Birding 41(2):12
Iliff, M.J., B.L. Sullivan, and C.L. Wood. 2009. News from eBird – eBird maps. Birding 41(3):12
Iliff, M.J., B.L. Sullivan, and C.L. Wood. 2009. News from eBird – How bar charts make you a better birder. Birding 41(4):12-13.
Lester, M. 2010. The influence of lunar phase and predation on the vocalization behavior of Eastern Whip-poor-wills. Undergraduate thesis, University of Vermont.
Leukering, T., and B. Gibbons. 2005. The Changing Seasons: Early and late. North American Birds 59:3 386-394.
McLaren, I.A., and J.D. McLaren. 2009. An analysis of unusual flights of neotropical migrants to northeastern North America in April 2009. North American Birds 63:3 364-368.
Morello, L. 2010. Will satellites and super computers improve bird watching? Scientific American, 3 August 2010. ( http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=satellites-and-supercomputing-improve-bird-watching).
Sullivan, B.L. and C.L. Wood. 2005. The Changing Seasons: A Plea for the Common Birds. North American Birds 58: 18-30.
Sullivan, B.L. 2007. Another Passenger Pigeon? - How will Mourning Doves fare with Eurasian Collared-Doves? WildBird. November/December 2007: 14-17.
Sullivan, B.L. 2006. More than memories: From your backyard to places across North America, eBird keeps track of sightings. BirdScope 20:1 20.
Sullivan, B.L. 2008. eBird and the Evolution of a Birder. Birding 40:1 48-52.
Sullivan, B.L. 2009. Window into change--Fall migration reveals differences in bird distribution and abundance. WildBird 23:6 10-12.
Sullivan, B.L. 2011. The Road Less Traveled: Look for birds in unfamiliar and unlikely places to discover surprises. WildBird 25:2 16-19.
Young, M.A. 2010. Type 5 Red Crossbills (Loxia curvirostra)
in New York: first confirmation east of the Rocky Mountains. North
American Birds 64:2 343-346.
[*note: In addition, eBird data has been used quarterly since
at least 2007 by up to 33 different North American Birds regional
editors in the compilation of those articles summarizing regional bird
occurrence across North America. These are not cited specifically]