@conference {14906,
	title = {Dynamic changes in motivation in collaborative citizen-science projects},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work},
	series = {CSCW {\textquoteright}12},
	year = {2012},
	month = {2012///},
	pages = {217 - 226},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	abstract = {Online citizen science projects engage volunteers in collecting, analyzing, and curating scientific data. Existing projects have demonstrated the value of using volunteers to collect data, but few projects have reached the full collaborative potential of scientists and volunteers. Understanding the shared and unique motivations of these two groups can help designers establish the technical and social infrastructures needed to promote effective partnerships. We present findings from a study of the motivational factors affecting participation in ecological citizen science projects. We show that volunteers are motivated by a complex framework of factors that dynamically change throughout their cycle of work on scientific projects; this motivational framework is strongly affected by personal interests as well as external factors such as attribution and acknowledgment. Identifying the pivotal points of motivational shift and addressing them in the design of citizen-science systems will facilitate improved collaboration between scientists and volunteers.},
	keywords = {citizen science, Collaboration, crowdsourcing, ecology, motivation, scientists, volunteers},
	isbn = {978-1-4503-1086-4},
	doi = {10.1145/2145204.2145238},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2145204.2145238},
	author = {Rotman,Dana and Preece,Jenny and Hammock,Jen and Procita,Kezee and Hansen,Derek and Parr,Cynthia and Lewis,Darcy and Jacobs, David W.}
}
@article {12888,
	title = {Microbial oceanography in a sea of opportunity},
	journal = {Nature},
	volume = {459},
	year = {2009},
	month = {2009/05/13/},
	pages = {180 - 184},
	abstract = {Plankton use solar energy to drive the nutrient cycles that make the planet habitable for larger organisms. We can now explore the diversity and functions of plankton using genomics, revealing the gene repertoires associated with survival in the oceans. Such studies will help us to appreciate the sensitivity of ocean systems and of the ocean{\textquoteright}s response to climate change, improving the predictive power of climate models.},
	keywords = {Astronomy, astrophysics, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biology, biotechnology, cancer, cell cycle, cell signalling, climate change, Computational Biology, development, developmental biology, DNA, drug discovery, earth science, ecology, environmental science, Evolution, evolutionary biology, functional genomics, Genetics, Genomics, geophysics, immunology, interdisciplinary science, life, marine biology, materials science, medical research, medicine, metabolomics, molecular biology, molecular interactions, nanotechnology, Nature, neurobiology, neuroscience, palaeobiology, pharmacology, Physics, proteomics, quantum physics, RNA, Science, science news, science policy, signal transduction, structural biology, systems biology, transcriptomics},
	isbn = {0028-0836},
	doi = {10.1038/nature08056},
	url = {http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7244/abs/nature08056.html},
	author = {Bowler,Chris and Karl,David M. and Rita R Colwell}
}
@article {18717,
	title = {Structural Biology: Analysis of {\textquoteright}downhill{\textquoteright} protein folding; Analysis of protein-folding cooperativity (Reply)},
	journal = {Nature},
	volume = {445},
	year = {2007},
	month = {2007/02/15/},
	pages = {E17-E18 - E17-E18},
	abstract = {Ferguson et al. and Zhou and Bai criticize the quality of our nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data and atom-by-atom analysis of global {\textquoteright}downhill{\textquoteright} folding, also claiming that the data are compatible with two-state folding.},
	keywords = {Astronomy, astrophysics, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biology, biotechnology, cancer, cell cycle, cell signalling., climate change, Computational Biology, development, developmental biology, DNA, drug discovery, earth science, ecology, environmental science, Evolution, evolutionary biology, functional genomics, Genetics, Genomics, geophysics, immunology, interdisciplinary science, life, marine biology, materials science, medical research, medicine, metabolomics, molecular biology, molecular interactions, nanotechnology, Nature, neurobiology, neuroscience, palaeobiology, pharmacology, Physics, proteomics, quantum physics, RNA, Science, science news, science policy, signal transduction, structural biology, systems biology, transcriptomics},
	isbn = {0028-0836},
	doi = {10.1038/nature05645},
	url = {http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v445/n7129/full/nature05645.html?lang=en},
	author = {Sadqi,Mourad and Fushman, David and Mu{\~n}oz,Victor}
}
