This page was created to collect notes and ideas around the development of a concise guide and overview of useful methods and approaches used in grassroots science.

Format

One form this project could take is: the collaborative development of a "field guide" for grassroots scientific research. This field guide could have an online, wiki-editable version, that periodically was edited down to a compact, printable version.

Possible Topics

Some possible topics / chapters in such a guide might be:

-- PLOTS: History and purpose of the organization -- Grassroots science: philosophy, methods, resources -- PLOTS case studies and examples -- Field Guide for Doing Research with DIY tools -- Pedagogy and approach -- Forming a local PLOTS chapter -- Using data to make a convincing case to your community, or to a government agency -- ?

Contribute

You can contribute resources and ideas here on how something like this might come together, or use the associated Google Doc.

This will also be a related session topic at the PLOTS barn raising in Cocodrie at the beginning of November.

Bring on the brainstorm!