11:52:04 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields : Hi everyone! I am Stephanie Vierow-Fields and I am the Relationship Coordinator for STAR Net! 11:52:26 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Welcome, everyone! This is Claire from STAR Net. Please introduce yourself in the chat, and remember to address it to "all panelists and attendees" 11:52:38 From Laurie Fitzgerald : Hi! I'm Laurie Fitzgerald from the St. Charles City-County Library 11:52:59 From Laurie Fitzgerald : in the State of Missouir 11:53:13 From Laurie Fitzgerald : Missouri 11:53:35 From Barbara A. Shatara to All panelists : Hello from the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vermont 11:53:50 From Laura Santo to All panelists : Hello, Laura from Michigan 11:54:02 From Beatrice Chavez : Hello everyone, my name is Beatrice and I am with STAR Net. Thanks for joining today! 11:54:06 From Barbara A. Shatara : Hello from the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vermont 11:54:21 From Judy Brown : Hi! I’m Judy Brown from San Miguel Library on the Central Coast of California. 11:54:40 From Lori Terzi to All panelists : Hello from Stockton/San Joaquin County Public Library in California! 11:55:12 From Kathy Sanders : Hi! I am Kathy Sanders from Dorchester County Library in St George, SC ; D 11:55:13 From Odessa Cooley to All panelists : Odessa from South Sioux City Public Library in NE 11:55:18 From Laura Santo : Hi I'm laura, Michigan 11:56:05 From Odessa Cooley : Odessa from South Sioux City Public Library in NE 11:56:07 From Lori Terzi : Once again, to all: Hello from Stockton/San Joaquin County Public Library in California! 11:56:57 From Lisa Boyd to All panelists : Good afternoon, is this presentation going to be closed captioned? 11:56:58 From Melanie Goad Goad : Melanie Goad from Pope County Library System in Russellville Arkansas. 11:57:14 From Beatrice Chavez : Don't forget to change your chat to all panelists and attendees so we can all see your comments and questions :) 11:57:41 From Lisa Boyd : Good afternoon, is this presentation going to be closed captioned? 11:58:04 From Lisa Boyd : Lisa Boyd- Canton Public Library in Michigan 11:58:07 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : The recording of the webinar will be close captioned; the live version will not. The recording will be available starting tomorrow, and a link to the recording is included in our link bank 11:58:18 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Link bank: http://www.starnetlibraries.org/resource-list-celebrate-citizen-science-month-with-scistarter-and-star-net/ 11:58:54 From Lisa Boyd : Fabulous! thank you 11:59:01 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields : Hope you are all enjoying spring! We went from 75 yesterday to 35 and snow today. Spring in Colorado is always an adventure! 11:59:31 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Haha, Stephanie, I know! We got more snow last night than I thought we'd get 11:59:35 From Margaret Bohlin : I'm Peggy Bohlin and work at the Roswell Public Library in New Mexico. 11:59:54 From Karen Woodworth : Karen Woodworth, Parchment Community Library, Parchment, Michigan 12:00:05 From Lisa Murawa to All panelists : Hello, Lisa from Springfield Township MI Library here. 12:00:43 From EmmaLee Herlocher : EmmaLee Herlocher, Youth Services Librarian, White Lake Township Library in Michigan 12:01:00 From Tomeka Roulhac : Tomeka, Hertford County Public Library, Winton NC 12:01:08 From Stephanie Birr : Stephanie Los Lunas Public Library New Mexico 12:01:20 From Awnali Mills to All panelists : Awnali Mills from Ashland, VA! 12:01:28 From Lisa Murawa : Lisa, Springfield Twp, MI Library 12:01:36 From Beatrice Chavez : Here is a link to our link bank to this webinar Link bank: http://www.starnetlibraries.org/resource-list-celebrate-citizen-science-month-with-scistarter-and-star-net/ 12:01:47 From Cathy DeWitt : Cathy from Georgetown Peabody Library Massachusetts 12:01:59 From C Ricard : Hello! Catherine from Grosse Pointe Library in Southeast MI 12:02:02 From Beatrice Chavez : Welcome in everyone and thank you for joining us today! 12:02:55 From Laura Santo : EmmaLee, my daughter's name is spelled exactly the same way, even the capital L! 12:04:15 From Darlene Cavalier : If we count Ben Franklin, even longer! :) 12:04:34 From Jennifer Dye : Yes, much longer 12:06:41 From Beatrice Chavez : Here is a link to SciStarter Library Resources from SciStarter: https://SciStarter.org/Library-Resources 12:07:12 From Beatrice Chavez : This is included in the webinar link bankLink bank: http://www.starnetlibraries.org/resource-list-celebrate-citizen-science-month-with-scistarter-and-star-net/ 12:12:57 From C Ricard : I need to see Steve the Aurora. 12:13:21 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : I need to clean my belly button more often haha 12:16:28 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields : I love bird watching with my bird feeder. Who knew that could count! 12:16:34 From Tammy Montjoy to All panelists : Is there any grants available to libraries to help build kits to check out? 12:18:30 From Awnali Mills to All panelists : Is Citizen Science month always April? 12:19:11 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : That's a great question, Tammy. Here is some information on a grant opportunity for this year's Citizen Science Month: https://blog.scistarter.org/2021/02/national-library-of-medicine-citizen-science-month-mini-grant-application/ 12:19:36 From Tammy Montjoy to All panelists : Thank you! 12:19:40 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : The deadline may have already passed, but I'll bring up the question again with Caroline during the Q&A portion 12:21:18 From Margaret Bohlin : How can we get the display board with the different Citizen Science opportunities for the community? 12:21:34 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Awnali, yes citizen science month is April 12:22:42 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields : Hi Margaret. I believe all of this is found on the SciStarter webpage: https://SciStarter.org 12:23:16 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Here is the calendar for events: https://scistarter.org/calendar 12:27:10 From Beatrice Chavez : Link bank: http://www.starnetlibraries.org/resource-list-celebrate-citizen-science-month-with-scistarter-and-star-net/ 12:32:23 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Stall Catchers: https://stallcatchers.com/main 12:40:44 From Paula Nemes to All panelists : How was April chosen for Cit Sci month? For libraries, April also has National Library Week, National Poetry Month, Financial Literacy month . . . So much to celebrate! 12:40:47 From Awnali Mills to All panelists : Since, as a library, we plan 7 months out, what is going on in 7 months that we could participate in? 12:45:55 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Awnali, in 7 months NASA is launching the James Webb Space Telescope (October 31). Could be a great opportunity to do astronomy-related citizen science projects, such as light pollution programs. Here's more info about the launch: https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/index.html 12:46:39 From Awnali Mills to All panelists : Thanks. 12:47:06 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Paula, April certainly is a month of celebration! Citizen Science Month may have been created in relation to Earth Day, I'll bring it up again with Caroline during the Q&A :) 12:53:14 From Judy Brown : Caroline is the best! Reach out to her! 12:56:05 From Darlene Cavalier : Hi! CitSciMonth was actually created in relation to a number of science festivals taking place across the country a few years ago! 12:56:15 From Laurie Fitzgerald : Paula Nemes, April is a crazy month for our Library as well. We have Money Smart month in April, and I spend much of my time preparing in April for those classes, however, we planned our virtual classes about science in February in March, highlighting Citizen Science, and then reposting SciStarter classes in April. 12:58:07 From Darlene Cavalier : Should folks email you, Caroline, at CarolineN@SciStarter.org if they want to join the new Citizen Science Library Network ? 12:59:08 From Beatrice Chavez : Link bank: http://www.starnetlibraries.org/resource-list-celebrate-citizen-science-month-with-scistarter-and-star-net/ 12:59:46 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields : Certification of Attendance: http://www.starnetlibraries.org/2020/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/STARNet-Webinar-Certificate-033021.pdf 13:01:33 From Margaret Bohlin : Since the Roswell Public Library is in the middle of town with a very small patch of grass and no good area for outdoor activities, are there good projects that would work for our patrons? 13:01:56 From Margaret Bohlin : It would be lovely if the library was next to a park. 13:02:54 From Margaret Bohlin : What was the last one mentioned? 13:03:06 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : iNaturalist 13:03:16 From Awnali Mills to All panelists : It seems that the things that are highlighted on those newsletters are things that are coming up right away. Our lead time is so long, that it's frustrating to see such great things that we could have participated in if only we had had a longer lead time. Is this something that you could look into doing for us? 13:03:19 From Margaret Bohlin : OK 13:03:42 From Margaret Bohlin : Thank you! 13:03:45 From Paula Nemes to All panelists : Our patrons enjoyed programs on star gazing; farming-related: soil, crops, hogs, sheep, cattle, horses; I know you have some on wind power 13:04:34 From Awnali Mills to All panelists : I already have a Firefly Count planned for May. 13:04:58 From Tammy Montjoy to All panelists : Thank you so much for this information. So excited to start planning fun stuff for our patrons. 13:05:15 From Awnali Mills to All panelists : When are Caroline's office hours? 13:05:15 From Brian Carey : Thank you--very informative! 13:05:21 From Kathy Sanders : Thanks! 13:05:23 From Nawal Takidin to All panelists : Thank you! 13:05:27 From Margaret Bohlin : How can we promote Citizen Science Kids Day? Is there an online flyer? 13:06:12 From Paula Nemes to All panelists : It is so great to hear the excitement from you all --I so appreciate that boost and encouragement. Thank you! 13:06:15 From Beatrice Chavez : Link bank: http://www.starnetlibraries.org/resource-list-celebrate-citizen-science-month-with-scistarter-and-star-net/ 13:06:29 From Laurie Fitzgerald : Thank you for all the information! 13:06:37 From Galaxy Tab A to All panelists : Thank you! Great presentation. 13:06:39 From Margaret Bohlin : Fantastic!