Speaker
Emmanouela Panteri
(Hellenic Centre for Marine Research)
Description
The number of the Citizen Science projects has been constantly rising the latest years, all over the world. New tools for disseminating information and fast and easy internet access are the reasons why citizen scientists are now contributing more and more to projects on environmental monitoring or conservation biology and ecology. Three citizen science projects, have recently been initiated by LifeWatchGreece (Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR)), in collaboration with many partner institutions from all over Europe, and focus on the Mediterranean and Greek territories.
Emmanouela Panteri is a Web Developer at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research in Crete, Greece. Specialized in Database Development, Data Integration and Web Based Applications. Her current task is to explore how such techniques can serve biodiversity research.
