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  • SY51B-04: Scaling Citizen Science for the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Era: Lessons from Rubin Comet Catchers
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Author(s):
Colin Chandler, University of Washington Seattle (First Author, Presenting Author)
Devanshi Singh, University of Washington Seattle Campus
Max Frissell, University of Washington Seattle Campus
Dmitrii Vavilov, University of Washington Seattle Campus
Naomi Morato, University of Washington Seattle Campus
Jinshuo Zhang, University of Washington Seattle Campus
Jake Kurlander, University of Washington
Mario Jurić, University of Washington Seattle Campus
Andrew Connolly, University of Washington Seattle Campus
Chris Lintott, University of Oxford
Clare Higgs, NOIRLab
Henry Hsieh, Planetary Science Institute Tucson
Will Oldroyd, Northern Arizona University
Pedro Bernardinelli, University of Washington Seattle Campus
Chadwick Trujillo, Northern Arizona University
Mark Jesus Mendoza Magbanua, University of California San Francisco
Tobin Wainer, University of Washington Seattle Campus
William Burris, Northern Arizona University
Jay Kueny, University of Arizona
Jarod DeSpain, Northern Arizona University
Kennedy Farrell, Northern Arizona University
Scott Sheppard, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington
Michele Mazzucato, Rubin Comet Catchers
Tiffany Rindler, Rubin Comet Catchers
Milton Bosch, Rubin Comet Catchers
Virgilio Gonano, Rubin Comet Catchers
Al Lamperti, Rubin Comet Catchers
Jose da Silva Campos, Rubin Comet Catchers
Brian Goodwin, Rubin Comet Catchers
Ivan Terentev, Rubin Comet Catchers
Charles Dukes, Rubin Comet Catchers


Rubin Comet Catchers is the first NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Citizen Science project. This NASA Grantee program, launched in June 2025, seeks to discover comets and comet-like bodies in the unprecedented dataset being delivered as part of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and its precursor data. Here we share our experiences in scaling up a project by orders of magnitude while simultaneously navigating the complexities of a large-scale, multi-national, multi-agency collaboration.



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