Kristin Huizenga joins the COMBB project as a new Postdoctoral Researcher. Kristin has a Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island. She deployed and managed a network of water quality sensors in Narragansett Bay. She’s also investigated how climate change and nutrient reductions influenced the abundance and reproduction of Narragansett Bay’s lobsters. Kristin will help manage new sensor deployments and analyze the data they produce.
Chris and Kristin attended the National Science Foundation Smart and Connected Communities Principal Investigator meeting held February 27 and 28 in Nashville. Chris gave an invited lightning talk and co-led a workshop session on how SCC projects involve citizen science in our project. Participants in that session will produce a short document with suggestions for how new NSF programs might study and induce citizen science.
Chris Neill (with microphone) presented a talk on the figure of citizen science at the National Science Foundation Smart and Connected Communities Principal Investigator meeting Feb 28-29 in Nashville, TN. From left: SCC PIs Pradeep Kurup of the University of Massachusetts – Lowell, Teresa Gonzales of Loyola University of Chicago, Barnali Dixon of the University of Southern Florida, and NSF Program Officer Vishal Sharma. / photo by Kristin Huizenga