Benefits and challenges of incorporating citizen science into university education

• Nicola Mitchell ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nicola.mitchell@uwa.edu.au

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0744-984X

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• Maggie Triska,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

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• Andrea Liberatore,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Science Communication, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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• Linden Ashcroft,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Centre for Climate Change, University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.

  Affiliation Earthwatch Institute, Melbourne, Australia

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• Richard Weatherill,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: South Metropolitan Health Service, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, WA, Australia

  Affiliation Earthwatch Institute, Melbourne, Australia

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• Nancy Longnecker

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia, Centre for Science Communication, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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