COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THROUGH K-16 PLACE-BASED CITIZEN SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJECTS FOR CANADIAN CORDILLERA ARRAY AND EON-ROSE

Place-based Citizen Science research projects were shown by Wood Street School to be exceptionally powerful for engaging high school students (100% graduation, 60% continuing into STEM postsecondary programs). Plans call for K-16 place- and curriculum-based Citizen Science research projects as the integral component of the new Community Science Liaison (CSL) program that is being developed in collaboration with the EON-ROSE (Earth-System Observing Network – Reseau d’Observation du Systeme terrestrE) research network. EON-ROSE is an international research program, of which the Canadian Cordillera Array (CCArray), extending across the Cordillera from the Beaufort Sea to the U.S. border, is planned as a pilot phase. Both the CCArray and EON-ROSE were inspired by the U.S. EarthScope initiative. The EON-ROSE research community will support the CSLs by developing their training program, providing guidance for K-12 Citizen Science project design, assisting with data interpretation, and providing remote presentations. Representative Citizen Science project teams will be invited to the annual EON-ROSE conference, where they will present their results. Community input will also be included when designing the future EON-ROSE Earth System Observatories. The purpose of this CSL design is to create community engagement for the EON-ROSE program across Canada. The first station was installed in July 2018 at Kluane Lake Research Station in the Yukon Territories and there will be a multi-sensor deployment to monitor Mt Meager in the Garibaldi volcanic belt during the summer 2019. In the Canadian context it would be impossible to fund a repeat of the EarthScope experiment, therefore our intention is to expand the research network to permit a holistic examination of Earth Systems from the ionosphere through the Critical Zone into the core. The foundation for EON-ROSE will be >1400 telemetered and powered observatories across the Canadian landmass with broadband seismometers, GNSS receivers, infrasound and pressure sensors, weather packages, riometers, permafrost monitors, etc. that will produce real-time data that will be openly available. While the CSL program has grown out of the EON-ROSE collaboration, connections will be made with other research groups in the region (e.g. Ocean Networks Canada, ArcticNet).