Events

CitSci Alberta supports the advancement of citizen science in the province by increasing awareness and promoting citizen science-related events.

If you would like to add a citizen science event, first join the CitSci Alberta Directory; if you have already joined the directory then fill out this online form to add your event. Events can relate to all things citizen science, from webinars on how to undertake citizen science, to an outdoor or online event for a specific project. You can also add post-event resources such as webinar recordings, slide decks, and reports, using the following online form.

Upcoming Events

Water Quality in the Pembina River Watershed

March 11, 2025

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Athabasca Watershed Council

12:00 PM

Online

Water, Other, Water quality, fish conservation

The Athabasca Watershed Council presents “Water Quality in the Pembina River Watershed” Join us for this free online event featuring Charette Pell Poscente Environmental presentation on the 2-year water quality monitoring program in the Pembina watershed, Alberta Environment and Protected Areas information about the Upper Athabasca Surface Water Quality Management Framework and the Northern Lights Fly Fishers discussion on stream temperature monitoring and Arctic Grayling conservation initiatives in the Pembina River watershed.

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Tree Planting for Biodiversity

June 12, 2025

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Nature Alberta, Root for Trees

6:00 PM

Edmonton, AB

Biodiversity, General biodiversity

Celebrate the annual Biodiversity Challenge by planting trees and contributing to citizen science with Nature Alberta and Root for Trees! Make sure to wear closed toed shoes to participate.

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Past Events

Connecting People & Science – In-person Workshop: Citizen Science and Policy: Monitoring to Driving Change

October 30, 2024

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

9:00am to 4:00pm

Bison Lodge, 9430 Scona Rd NW, Edmonton, AB

Citizen Science & Policy: Monitoring to Driving Change is a workshop dedicated to supporting citizen science projects, creating a network of organizations and individuals committed to citizen science, and engaging the citizen science in Alberta. The workshop aims to collectively advance citizen science in Alberta. The workshop will also showcase the new Hub as a means to enhance resources and skills available to citizens, practitioners, and researchers in the citizen science community.

Connecting People & Science: How is Your Work Driving Change? - Wednesday Webinar Speaker Series

October 30, 2024

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

Other

This video features Prof. Muki Haklay, Lynn Smith, Kyle Horner, and Dr. Patrick Hanington answering the question: “How is your work driving change?” Each of these individuals spoke for a webinar in the Connecting People and Science series in the Fall of 2024.

CitSci Alberta Community of Practice Projects Driving Change

October 30, 2024

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

Other

This video highlights some citizen science projects in Alberta that are driving change through their work! Representatives from these projects were asked the question: “How is your work driving change?”

Connecting People & Science – Webinar Wednesdays: Place-based Partnerships

October 23, 2024

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

12:00-1:30pm (MT)

Online

Land, Water, Other, eDNA, Partnerships

This webinar featured Dr. Patrick Hanington from the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta who discussed his work with eDNA and bringing molecular biology to communities in Alberta.

Connecting People & Science - Webinar Wednesdays: Transformative Tools: Managing Big Data

October 9, 2024

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

Biodiversity, Birds, Other

This webinar featured Kyle Horner from Birds Canada who discussed his work with NatureCounts and the development of the State of Canada’s Birds.

Connecting People & Science - Webinar Wednesdays: Empowering Future Stewards

October 2, 2024

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

Other

This webinar featured Lynn Smith from the Peavine Metis Settlement and her colleague Matthew Menzies from NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute for Technology) who discussed empowering future stewards.

Connecting People & Science – Webinar Wednesdays: Diverse Applications of Citizen Science Worldwide

September 25, 2024

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

Other

This webinar featured Prof. Muki Haklay from the University College London, who discussed the applications of citizen science in the European context.

How About Drought? Citizen Scientists in Action

June 13, 2024

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

Water

This webinar featured three speakers representing non-government organizations and highlighted how citizen scientists are contributing to research on drought: 1. Community-based groundwater monitoring in Rocky View County using a citizen-science approach and extension into the broader Bow River Basin. Speakers: Masaki Hayashi (University of Calgary) and Wendell Koning (Bow River Basin Council Science Committee) 2. Combining Citizen Science with Satellite Data to Monitor Changing Water Levels in Alberta’s Lakes Speaker: Grant Parkins

Indigenous Voices in Environmental Monitoring

September 27, 2023

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

In Person

Biodiversity, Culture, Water

Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice September webinar presentations featuring Alvin First Rider, an environmental technician with Blood Tribe Land Management, and Elliot Fox, a member of the Kainai (Blood Tribe) First Nation (Blackfoot Confederacy). Following the presentations, Tracy Lee (Miistakis Institute) conducted an interview with Elliot Fox on questions arising from the webinar.

Wildfire Smoke Monitoring

April 12, 2023

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

Air

This April we welcome Greg Wentworth, a Senior Atmospheric Scientist with Alberta Environment and Protected Area. Greg describes a pilot project being conducted by Alberta Environment and Protected Areas (AEPA) to monitor the impact of wildfire smoke on air quality throughout Alberta.

Wading Through Aquatic Projects

March 1, 2023

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

Water

On March 1, CitSci Alberta hosted its sixth gathering – Wading Through Aquatic Citizen Science Projects! The gathering highlighted Alberta’s water-based citizen science projects, with a focus on what is involved in the planning and designing a citizen science project. Projects featured include Stream Temperature Monitoring with Trout Unlimited Canada, LakeObserver with the Pigeon Lake Watershed Association, LakeWatch with the Alberta Lake Management Society, X-Stream Science with the Battle River Watershed Alliance and DataStream. The event included ‘Ask an Expert’ breakout sessions to discuss questions and concerns ahead of the summer field season.

Winter Citizen Science!

October 12, 2022

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

Biodiversity, Climate, Water

Tales of Snow and Ice – Citizen Science in Alberta’s Winter featured a panel of citizen science researchers and practitioners highlighting winter projects and the challenges of winter citizen science in Alberta. Projects featured include Calgary Captured, IceWatch, Winter LakeKeepers, and the Christmas Bird Count. Following the panel presentations there was a facilitated discussion led by members of the CitSci Alberta Steering Committee.

Watch Party!

May 26, 2022

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

Other

The Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice hosted a regional event as part of the 2022 C*Sci Conference! On May 26 we watched keynote speaker Dr. Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta. Dr. Ramírez-Andreotta is an Associate Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Arizona. Using an environmental justice framework and participatory research methods, she investigates exposure pathways and communication strategies to translate environmental health research to action and achieve structural change. The presentation was followed by a discussion on how we can incorporate our learnings into citizen science projects across Alberta.

Keynote Presentation

March 2, 2022

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Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice

Water

The March 2022 gathering of the Citizen Science Alberta Community of Practice “Building community-based water research projects using participatory research and educational programming”, featured a presentation by Dr. Patrick Hanington, an associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. In this presentation, Patrick highlighted examples of projects that touch on ways in which community-partnered and school-partnered research is undertaken by his team.