Maker Faire Lynchburg 2024
Everyone can be a scientist through community science
Home: Virginia, United States
Everyone can be a scientist! Learn the basics of using community science platforms iNaturalist and eBird, why the data collected are important, and how you can participate in community science.
https://claytor.lynchburg.edu
Makers
Jennifer Wills
Nature has been a force throughout Jennifer’s life. Her love of nature led to an undergraduate degree in biology and then a law degree to practice environmental law. She practiced law with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before leaving to pursue her entrepreneurial interests as a leadership coach. As a coach, Jennifer incorporates nature into her coaching practice by taking clients outdoors, often on hikes in nature. The force of nature continues in her role as director of the Claytor Nature Center, a nearly 500-acre nature preserve and research center of the University of Lynchburg. She loves hiking, mountain biking and traveling, and, in general, exploring the world as well as assumptions. She has a master’s degree in leadership in global sustainability from Virginia Tech, a J.D. from the University of Kentucky and a B.A. in biology from the University of Louisville.
https://claytor.lynchburg.edu
Maggie Marsh
What Inspired You to Make This?
We want to make science accessible to young children and families and adults. We want people to know that they don't have to be a PhD to contribute data to scientific research; we want people to be curious about what's around them, in nature, to better understand how and why flora and fauna interact and behave.
