サフォークが呼びかけると人々は耳を傾ける：市民科学 | ハンナ・ステベントン | TEDxUniversity of Suffolk

サフォーク州各地の市民科学プロジェクトでは、数百人の地域住民が集まり、身近な環境の調査と保護に取り組んでいます。サフォーク大学の環境科学者ハンナ・ステベントンは、生物音響学と微生物学を用いて、ボランティアが変化する景観や河川の水質に関する証拠を集める方法を紹介しています。講演では、コウモリの音を聞き取りコウモリ検出器を作る事例と、サフォークの河川での微生物モニタリングという二つの事例が取り上げられています。共有された知識が住民を力づけ、環境と地域社会への具体的な行動につながると述べています。

• サフォークでボランティアが主導する市民科学
• 生物音響学の事例：コウモリの音を聞き、検出器を製作
• 微生物学の事例：サフォーク河川の水質モニタリング

Celebrating the work of hundreds of Suffolk people and our collaborative impact to build a better Suffolk with science, action and love. • our environment can be better understood and is changing • communities mobilise armies of volunteers to investigate, measure and take action • informed by university expertise • two case studies: - bioacoustics in Suffolk: listening to bats, building bat detectors - microbiology in Suffolk rivers • knowledge empowers Suffolk people • action impacts our environment and community. Dr Hannah Steventon is an environmental scientist at the University of Suffolk whose work sits at the intersection of environment, technology and community action. Her research explores what becomes possible when local people gather the evidence needed to protect the places they care about. Through citizen science projects across Suffolk, she collaborates with communities and partners to investigate environmental challenges, from listening to landscapes through bioacoustics to monitoring river water quality using microbiology and sensor technologies. Hannah began her career as a hydrogeologist, specialising in contaminated land and groundwater pollution, before moving into digital sensing, data analysis and environmental innovation. She is also a passionate educator, teaching hydrogeology, pollution, coding, electronics and data science. Hannah is a Chartered Geologist with degrees from Cambridge, UCL and Suffolk. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx