citizen scientist

American  

[sit-uh-zuhn sahy-uhn-tist, sit-uh-suhn] / ˈsɪt ə zən ˈsaɪ ən tɪst, ˈsɪt ə sən /

noun

plural

citizen scientists

1. a person engaged in citizen science; a volunteer who participates in collecting scientific data.

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Example Sentences

The surrounding neighborhood, just across a busy freeway from the University of Southern California’s campus, is one of several in Central L.A. that the budding citizen scientist has surveyed as part of her own study of the area’s spotty tree canopy.

From Los Angeles Times

There is so much that your average citizen scientist can contribute to our knowledge of gulls.

From Salon

Want to be a citizen scientist?

From Los Angeles Times

The photometric data from the global Unistellar Citizen Science Network, including the Galaxy Explorers, was not able to definitively confirm a second transit with 100% confidence, however, their data was useful for the exoplanet study since it helped to rule out times when a transit was not happening and because it helped the scientists to learn valuable lessons about how to approach citizen scientist campaigns such as this in the future.

From Science Daily

This means that they took advantage of open access data that already existed for habitat and urban analysis, in addition to data from field sources and the aforementioned federal and citizen scientist information.

From Salon