Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research Workshop Report

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14719v1
• Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 15:19:08 GMT
• Title: Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research Workshop Report
• Abstract summary: This report is an outcome of a visioning workshop on Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research conducted on April 8-9, 2025 in Washington, D.C.<n>Citizen science delivers measurable economic and national value.<n>The distributed, collaborative, long-term, and contextual nature of citizen science makes it a demanding real-world use case for a novel robust research infrastructure.
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• Abstract: This report is an outcome of a Computing Community Consortium (CCC) visioning workshop on Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research conducted on April 8-9, 2025, in Washington, D.C. as well as through several precursor virtual input-gathering sessions. These events brought together experts across relevant disciplines to develop a research agenda that brings to fruition the above vision on how humans and machines may team up to solve some of the world's most pressing scientific problems. Citizen science delivers measurable economic and national value. Public participation in scientific research generates millions of dollars in volunteer labor value, extends government agency capacity, and directly supports federal priorities in areas such as disaster management, public health, water, energy, workforce development, and many more. At the same time, 21st-century scientific infrastructure requirements for citizen science (from hardware and cyberinfrastructure to data and computational frameworks) mirror those for computational science more generally. The distributed, collaborative, long-term, and contextual nature of citizen science makes it a demanding real-world use case for a novel robust research infrastructure that accounts for security, privacy, resource adaptability, and transparency. In this report, we outline the key findings, future research directions, and recommendations that emerged from the April 2025 CCC Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research Workshop.

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