Live Public Sessions Past Public Sessions Day 1 Keynote Talk: Engaging people in documenting and managing biodiversity by Madhav Gadgil Keynote Talk: Ethical Issues in Citizen Science by Lisa Rasmussen Rain Gauging – hyper local rainfall data generation – Peeyush Sekhsaria Citizen Science Action – Protecting the Bawkhals – Debanjana Dey KURMA: An expanding network for chelonian conservation and data collection in India – Sreeparna Dutta Conservation of City Wetlands through Crowd Studying Odonates in the Marathwada Region, Maharashtra – Ameya Deshpande Citizen science and decision making for conservation of livestock biodiversity in India – Debanjana Dey The complex of cryptic species complexes: adapting to a changing landscape in citizen science – Arjun Kamdar Spread the Word, Bird by Bird – Anandarup Bhadra Day 2 Keynote Talk: The journey of Barefoot Ecologists – beyond numbers and information by Barefoot Ecologists, Barefoot Ecology Program – Keystone Foundation Working Group on Citizen Science Data: Considerations and Best Practices by Balasubramanian Dhandapani, Geetha Ramaswami, Priya Singh, Suneha Jagannathan, Thomas Vattakaven, Vijay Barve Moderated by Pankaj Sekhsaria Capacity building for bird monitoring in Thanamir, Nagaland – Kaushik Sarkar Assessment of Scope and Relevance of Citizen Science in Indian Higher Education Institution – Shyam S. Phartyal The use of eBird data for conservation in India – Swaroop Patankar Prose and Poetry to Citizen Science- Being a Nature Enthusiast – Nishand Venugopal Data Availability of Open Access Biodiversity Information’s in Kerala – Manoj Karingamadathil Improving the quality of big citizen science data: Learnings from eBird – Mittal Gala AI-based Owl Call Recognition: A Pilot Project – Swaroop Nayak Citizen Science and Science, Technology and Innovation: Need and case for a synergy – Krishna Ravi Srinivas Day 3 Keynote Talk: What motivates a citizen scientist – Teacher and student experiences from around the country by Teachers and Students of SeasonWatch Promoting awareness of insects through the Insect Walk – To Know, Love & Conserve among citizens – Shubham Dhanraj Chhapekar Being ‘Social’ for Citizen Science – Sayee Girdhari How SeasonWatch popularized Citizen Science in Kerala – Muhammed Nizar K Community Science and the Biodiversity Picture: Connecting People & Adding Resolution – Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman Day 4 Working Group on Diversity and Inclusion in Citizen Science by Kaberi Kar Gupta, Naveen Namboothri, P. Jegannathan, Prashanth NS, Sneha Dharwadkar Moderated by Suhel Quader Bird collisions with buildings in India: A synthesis of current knowledge – Peeyush Sekhsaria Avi-fauna Data Collection in Madhya Pradesh thru Bird Surveys – Ajay Gadikar Evidence of life stage and event specific responses of Danaus butterflies to rising temperatures – Vinayaka G. Hegde An investigation into the spatio-temporal patterns of the Himalayan Vagrant butterfly – Paul Pop A Malayalee Mango Mystery – Krishna Anujan Citizen science as a tool to understand bird migration – Ashwin Viswanathan The joy and tears of digitizing historical bird data – Maxim Rodrigues K Reeflog – involving divers in citizen science – Suneha Jagannathan Kerala Bird Atlas 2015-2020: aspects and outcomes – Ashish Jha Emerging Moth-ers of Kerala through citizen science – Unnikrishnan MP DiversityIndia: Observing India’s biodiversity for 20 years – Vijay Barve
