About the Authors

Maria Aristeidou

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

maria.aristeidou@open.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Christothea Herodotou

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Heidi L. Ballard

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Community and Citizen Science, UC Davis School of Education, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Alison N. Young

Contributed equally to this work with: Alison N. Young, Annie E. Miller, Lila Higgins, Rebecca F. Johnson

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Annie E. Miller

Contributed equally to this work with: Alison N. Young, Annie E. Miller, Lila Higgins, Rebecca F. Johnson

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lila Higgins

Contributed equally to this work with: Alison N. Young, Annie E. Miller, Lila Higgins, Rebecca F. Johnson

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rebecca F. Johnson

Contributed equally to this work with: Alison N. Young, Annie E. Miller, Lila Higgins, Rebecca F. Johnson

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The Authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.