Dilek Fraisl

Dilek Fraisl is a research scholar in the Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program. She has a PhD in Sustainability Transitions from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) in Austria, where she studied the integration of new data sources such as citizen science and Earth Observation into official statistics to address the world's greatest development challenges, from poverty to environmental degradation. She also has an MSc in Sustainable Development from the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium, the University of Padua in Italy, and Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in France.

Fraisl's research interests are sustainable development, data and statistics, Earth Observation, and citizen science as theory, practice, and evidence-base for policy development. She has worked in the areas of data governance and data management, including research on citizen science data quality. She has led and contributed to citizen science projects related to marine litter, land use, and land cover, as well as other environmental issues funded by the European Commission, UN agencies, and other donors. For example, she coordinated the 'Citizen Science for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) project' that leveraged citizen science data for monitoring and reporting of the marine litter SDG indicator in Ghana, as well as for policy and action.

Fraisl has been the chair of the European Commission funded "WeObserve SDGs and Citizen Science Community of Practice", which aims to foster collaboration and consolidate knowledge on the contributions of citizen science to the SDGs across the global citizen science-, and data and statistics communities. She has published scientific papers in areas of sustainable development, data and statistics, citizen science, and Earth Observations, and also contributed to several UN reports such as Measuring Progress: Environment and SDGs and Understanding the State of the Ocean: A Global Manual on Measuring SDG 14.1.1, SDG 14.2.1 and SDG 14.5.1 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

She has several board memberships with scientific communities, the UN, and other global initiatives, including the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics (SDSN TReNDS), the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Resilience Frontiers, the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), and the Global Citizen Science Partnership (GCSP), among others. She is also involved in the organizing committees and scientific advisory boards of several European and global conferences including the UN World Data Forum.

Last update: 03 FEB 2022

See, L. , Laso Bayas, J.C. , Lesiv, M. , Shchepashchenko, D. , Danylo, O., McCallum, I. , Dürauer, M., Georgieva, I., Domian, D., Fraisl, D. , Hager, G. , Karanam, S., Moorthy, I., Sturn, T., Subash, A., & Fritz, S. (2022). Lessons learned in developing reference data sets with the contribution of citizens: the Geo-Wiki experience. Environmental Research Letters 17 (6), e065003. 10.1088/1748-9326/ac6ad7.

Fraisl, D. , See, L. , Sturn, T., MacFeely, S., Bowser, A., Campbell, J., Moorthy, I., Danylo, O., McCallum, I. , & Fritz, S. (2022). Demonstrating the potential of Picture Pile as a citizen science tool for SDG monitoring. Environmental Science & Policy 128, 81-93. 10.1016/j.envsci.2021.10.034.

Fraisl, D. (2022). Citizen science data for the SDGs Ghana experience in monitoring 14.1.1b plastic debris density. In: The UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics (UN-CEBD), 25-27 January 2022.

Skarlatidou, A., Fraisl, D. , Wu, Y., See, L. , & Haklay, M. (2022). Extreme Citizen Science Contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and Opportunities for a Human-Centred Design Approach. In: Sense, Feel, Design. INTERACT - IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. pp. 20-35 Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-98387-110.1007/978-3-030-98388-8_3.

Fraisl, D. (2021). Citizen-generated data for the SDGs. In: “UN Big Data Task Team Road to EXPO2020, 14 December 2021.

Fraisl, D. (2021). The use of citizen science to address data gaps in the SDGs. In: Recommendations on Electronic Information Tools: Using citizen science effectively within the Aarhus context, October 2021, Geneva, Switzerland.

Fraisl, D. (2021). Global Citizen Science Partnership (GCSP). In: United Nations World Data Forum, 3-6 October 2021.

Wehn, U., Ajates, R., Fraisl, D. , Gharesifard, M., Gold, M., Hager, G. , Oliver, J.L., See, L. , Shanley, L.A., Ferri, M., Howitt, C., Monego, M., Pfeiffer, E., & Wood, C. (2021). Capturing and communicating impact of citizen science for policy: A storytelling approach. Journal of Environmental Management 295, e113082. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113082.

WeObserve consortium, (2021). WeObserve Cookbook. [Teaching Resource]

Haklay, M., Fraisl, D. , Greshake Tzovaras, B., Hecker, S., Gold, M., Hager, G. , Ceccaroni, L., Kieslinger, B., Wehn, U., Woods, S., Nold, C., Balázs, B., Mazzonetto, M., Ruefenacht, S., Shanley, L.A., Wagenknecht, K., Motion, A., Sforzi, A., Riemenschneider, D., Dorler, D., Heigl, F., Schaefer, T., Lindner, A., Weißpflug, M., Mačiulienė, M., & Vohland, K. (2021). Contours of citizen science: a vignette study. Royal Society Open Science 8 (8), p. 202108. 10.1098/rsos.202108.

Fraisl, D. (2021). Citizen Science Toolkit for SDG 14 & 15 CitSci-SDGs Toolkit. In: GEO VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM 2021, June 2021.

Fraisl, D. (2021). Citizen Science for the SDGs (CS4SDGs). In: Unleashing the potential of Citizen Science Data for monitoring the SDGs, UNITAR.

Laso Bayas, J.C. , See, L. , Bartl, H., Sturn, T., Karner, M., Fraisl, D. , Moorthy, I., Busch, M., van der Velde, M., & Fritz, S. (2021). Crowdsourcing LUCAS: Data set from the 2018 FotoQuest Go Europe campaign.

Fraisl, D. (2021). Citizen Science to Measure Progress on the Environment. In: Use of innovative data sources to measure SDGs progress on the environment, UN World Data forum.

WeObserve consortium, (2021). Roadmap for the uptake of the Citizen Observatories' knowledge base. WeObserve

Fraisl, D. (2021). Mapping Citizen Science Contributions to the SDGs. In: United Nations Statistical Commission.

Fraisl, D. (2021). Citizen Science & SDG Data. In: UNEP Science Policy Business Forum on the Environment.

García, F.S., Pelacho, M., Woods, T., Fraisl, D. , See, L. , Haklay, M., & Arias, R. (2021). Finding What You Need: A Guide to Citizen Science Guidelines. In: The Science of Citizen Science. Eds. Vohland, K., Land-Zandstra, A., Ceccaroni, L., Lemmens, R., Perelló, J., Ponti, M., Samson, R., & Wagenknecht, K., pp. 419-437 Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-58277-710.1007/978-3-030-58278-4_21.

Hager, G. , Gold, M., Wehn, U., Ajates, R., See, L. , Woods, M., Tsiakos, C., Masó, J., Fraisl, D. , Moorthy, I., Domian, D., & Fritz, S. (2021). Onto new horizons: insights from the WeObserve project to strengthen the awareness, acceptability and sustainability of Citizen Observatories in Europe. Journal of Science Communication 20 (06), A01. 10.22323/2.20060201.

United Nations Environment Programme, (2021). Measuring Progress: Environment and the SDGs. UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme, (2021). Understanding the State of the Ocean: A Global Manual on Measuring SDG 14.1.1, SDG 14.2.1 and SDG 14.5.1. UNEP

Haklay, M., Fraisl, D. , Greshake Tzovaras, B., Hecker, S., Gold, M., Hager, G. , Ceccaroni, L., Kieslinger, B., Wehn, U., Woods, S., Nold, C., Balazs, B., Mazzonetto, M., Rüfenacht, S., Shanley, L., Wagenknecht, K., Motion, A., Sforzi, A., Riemenschneider, D., Dörler, D., Heigl, F., Schäfer, T., Lindner, A., Weißpflug, M., Mačiuliene, M., & Vohland, K. (2020). Contours of Citizen Science: A Vignette Study. SocArXiv 10.31235/osf.io/6u2ky.

Laso Bayas, J.C. , See, L. , Bartl, H., Sturn, T., Karner, M., Fraisl, D. , Moorthy, I., Busch, M., van der Velde, M., & Fritz, S. (2020). Crowdsourcing LUCAS: Citizens Generating Reference Land Cover and Land Use Data with a Mobile App. Land 9 (11), e446. 10.3390/land9110446.

Fraisl, D. (2020). Contribution of Citizen Science Data to Monitoring the SDGs. In: Citizen Science and the SDGs Conference, 14-15 October 2020.

Fraisl, D. (2020). Potential of Citizen Science for SDG 11. In: UN World Data Forum, 19–21 October 2020.

Fraisl, D. , Campbell, J., Howitt, C., Seidu, O., MacFeely, S., & Espey, J. (2020). Integrating Citizen Science into the Official SDG Monitoring Mechanisms and a Proposal to Use Unofficial Statistics for SDG Reporting (to Deal with Crises). In: UN World Data Forum, 19–21 October 2020.

Fraisl, D. (2020). Citizen Science and the SDGs. In: Americas Symposium 2020, September 2020.

Fraisl, D. (2020). Citizen Science and the SDGs. In: European Open Science Forum, September 2020.

Fraisl, D. , Campbell, J., See, L. , Wehn, U., Wardlaw, J., Gold, M., Moorthy, I., Aras, R., Piera, J., Oliver, J.L., Maso, J., Penker, M., Fritz, S., & Hepburn, L. (2020). Citizen Science and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In: ECSA Conference, September 2020.

Fraisl, D. , Campbell, J., See, L. , Wehn, U., Wardlaw, J., Gold, M., Moorthy, I., Aras, R., Piera, J., Oliver, J.L., Maso, J., Penker, M., Fritz, S., & Hepburn, L. (2020). Mapping citizen science contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In: 6th International Conference on Big Data for Official Statistics, September 2020.

Fraisl, D. & Hager, G. (2020). Quality Criteria Citizen Science Resources. In: ECSA Conference, September 2020.

Wehn, U., Goebel, C., & Hepburn, L. (2020). Citizen Science & Open Science Community of Practice: Inception Report. CSGP Citizen Science & Open Science Community of Practice

Fraisl, D. , Campbell, J., See, L. , Wehn, U., Wardlaw, J., Gold, M., Moorthy, I., Arias, R., Piera, J., Oliver, J. L., Masó, J., Penker, M., & Fritz, S. (2020). Mapping citizen science contributions to the UN sustainable development goals. Sustainability Science 15, 1735-1751. 10.1007/s11625-020-00833-7.

Campbell, J., Neuner, J., See, L. , Fritz, S., Fraisl, D. , Espey, J., & Kim, A. (2020). The role of combining national official statistics with global monitoring to close the data gaps in the environmental SDGs. Statistical Journal of the IAOS 36 (2), 443-453. 10.3233/SJI-200648.

Fraisl, D. , Campbell, J., See, L. , Wehn, U., Wardlaw, J., Gold, M., Moorthy, I., Arias, R., Piera, J., L. Oliver, J., Maso, J., Penker, M., & Fritz, S. (2020). The Potential Role of Citizen Science for Addressing Global Challenges and Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7453. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2020, 4-8 May 2020, Vienna, Austria.

Laso Bayas, J.C. , See, L. , Sturn, T., Karner, M., Fraisl, D. , Moorthy, I., Subash, A., Georgieva, I., Hager, G. , Lesiv, M. , Hadi, H., Danylo, O., Karanam, S., Dürauer, M., Dahlia, D., Shchepashchenko, D. , McCallum, I. , & Fritz, S. (2020). Monitoring of land use change by citizens: The FotoQuest experience. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7870. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2020, 4-8 May 2020, Vienna, Austria.

Haklay, M., Motion, A., Balázs, B., Kieslinger, B., Greshake Tzovaras, B., Nold, C., Dörler, D., Fraisl, D. , Riemenschneider, D., Heigl, F., Brounéus, F., Hager, G. , Wagenknecht, K., Heuer, K., Vohland, K., Shanley, L., Deveaux, L., Ceccaroni, L., Weißpflug, M., Gold, M., Mazzonetto, M., Mačiulienė, M., Woods, S., Hecker, S., Schaefer, T., Woods, T., & Wehn, U. (2020). ECSA's Characteristics of Citizen Science. ECSA European Citizen Science Association

Haklay, M., Motion, A., Balázs, B., Kieslinger, B., Greshake Tzovaras, B., Nold, C., Dörler, D., Fraisl, D. , Riemenschneider, D., Heigl, F., Brounéus, F., Hager, G. , Wagenknecht, K., Heuer, K., Vohland, K., Shanley, L., Deveaux, L., Ceccaroni, L., Weißpflug, M., Gold, M., Mazzonetto, M., Mačiulienė, M., Woods, S., Hecker, S., Schaefer, T., Woods, T., & Wehn, U. (2020). ECSA's Characteristics of Citizen Science: Explanation Notes. ECSA European Citizen Science Association

Woods, M., Coulson, S., Ajates, R., Amditis, A., Cobley, A., Domian, D., Hager, G. , Ferri, M., Fraisl, D. , Fritz, S., Gold, M., Karitsioti, N., Masó, J., McCallum, I. , Tomei, G., Monego, M., Moorthy, I., Prat, E., Tsertou, A., Tsiakos, V., See, L. , Underwood, L., & Wehn, U. (2020). Citizen Science Projects: How to make a difference (MOOC). [Teaching Resource]

Fraisl, D. (2019). Citizen Science and SDGs. In: Geo Week 2019, 4-9 November 2019, Canberra, Australia.

Fritz, S., See, L. , Carlson, T., Haklay, M., Oliver, J.L., Fraisl, D. , Mondardini, R., Brocklehurst, M., Shanley, L., Schade, S., Wehn, U., Abrate, T., Anstee, J., Arnold, S., Billot, M., Campbell, J., Espey, J., Gold, M., Hager, G. , He, S., Hepburn, L., Hsu, A., Long, D., Masó, J., McCallum, I. , Muniafu, M., Moorthy, I., Obersteiner, M. , Parker, A., Weissplug, M., & West, S. (2019). Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Sustainability 2, 922-930. 10.1038/s41893-019-0390-3.

Campbell, J., Bowser, A., Fraisl, D. , & Meloche, M. (2019). Citizen Science and Data Integration for Understanding Marine Litter. In: Data for Good Exchange, 15 September 2019, New York.

Espey, J., Badiee, S., Dahmm, H., Appel, D., & Noe, L. (2019). Counting on the World to Act: A Roadmap for Governments to Achieve Modern Data Systems for Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Fritz, S., Sturn, T., Karner, M., Moorthy, I., See, L. , Laso Bayas, J.C. , & Fraisl, D. (2019). FotoQuest Go: A Citizen Science Approach to the Collection of In-Situ Land Cover and Land Use Data for Calibration and Validation. In: Digital Earth Observation, 01-04 July 2019, Salzburg, Austria.

Fraisl, D. , Fritz, S., See, L. , & Taylor, H. (2019). The Value of Citizen Science for Monitoring Marine Litter. In: UN Environment Assembly 4 (UNEA4), 11-15 March 2019, Nairobi.

Lesiv, M. , Laso Bayas, J.C. , See, L. , Dürauer, M., Dahlia, D., Durando, N., Hazarika, R., Sahariah, P.K., Vakolyuk, M., Blyshchyk, V., Bilous, A., Perez-Hoyos, A., Gengler, S., Prestele, R., Bilous, S., Akhtar, I.H., Singha, K., Choudhury, S.B., Chetri, T., Malek, Z., Bungnamei, K., Saikia, A., Sahariah, D., Narzary, W., Danylo, O., Sturn, T., Karner, M., McCallum, I. , Schepaschenko, D. , Moltchanova, E., Fraisl, D. , Moorthy, I., & Fritz, S. (2019). Estimating the Global Distribution of Field Size using Crowdsourcing. Global Change Biology 25 (1), 174-186. 10.1111/gcb.14492.

Laso Bayas, J.C. , Moorthy, I., Sturn, T., Karner, M., Perger, C., Fraisl, D. , Domian, D., Gardeazabal, A., Vargas, L., Capellan, S., Danylo, O., Lesiv, M. , Dürauer, M., Dresel, C., Hager, G. , Saad, M., Subash, A., Smith, B., Joshi, N., Schepaschenko, D. , McCallum, I. , See, L. , & Fritz, S. (2018). Citizen Scientists Monitoring the Environment: The Latest Apps from IIASA. In: Citizen Observatories for natual hazards and Water Management, 27-30 November 2018, Venice, Italy.

Fraisl, D. , Fritz, S., See, L. , McCallum, I. , & Moorthy, I. (2018). Citizen Science & SDGs: Opportunities, Challenges, Recommendations. In: Eye on Earth Summit, 22-24 October 2018, Mina A'Salam, Madinat Jumeriah, Dubai.

Lesiv, M. , Bayas, J.C.L., See, L. , Duerauer, M., Dahlia, D., Durando, N., Hazarika, R., Sahariah, P.K., Vakolyuk, M., Blyshchyk, V., Bilous, A., Perez-Hoyos, A., Gengler, S., Prestele, R., Bilous, S., Akhtar, I., Singha, K., Choudhury, S.B., Chetri, T., Malek, Z., Bungnamei, K., Saikia, A., Sahariah, D., Narzary, W., Danylo, O., Sturn, T., Karner, M., McCallum, I. , Schepaschenko, D. , Molchanova, E., Fraisl, D. , Moorthy, I., & Fritz, S. (2018). Estimating the Global Distribution of Field Size using Crowdsourcing.

Danylo, O., Moorthy, I., Sturn, T., See, L. , Laso Bayas, J.-C. , Domian, D., Fraisl, D. , Giovando, C., Girardot, B., Kapur, R., Matthieu, P.-P., & Fritz, S. (2018). The Picture Pile Tool for Rapid Image Assessment: A Demonstration using Hurricane Matthew. ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences IV-4, 27-32. 10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-27-2018.

Lesiv, M. , Fritz, S., Laso Bayas, J.C. , Dürauer, M., Domian, D., See, L. , McCallum, I. , Danylo, O., Perger, C., Karner, M., Schepaschenko, D. , Moorthy, I., Fraisl, D. , & Sturn, T. (2018). Global Field Sizes Dataset for Ecosystems Modeling. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, 9-13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria.

Moorthy, I., Sturn, T., Fraisl, D. , Karner, M., Laso Bayas, J.C. , See, L. , & McCallum, I. (2018). FotoQuest Go: A citizen science tool for in-situ land use and land cover monitoring. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, 9-13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria.

Fritz, S. & Fraisl, D. (2018). Citizen science data in peer-reviewed publications: The Geo-Wiki experience. In: 4th Austrian Citizen Science Conference, 1-3 February 2018, Salzburg, Austria.

Laso Bayas, J.C. , Lesiv, M. , Waldner, F., Schucknecht, A., Duerauer, M., See, L. , Fritz, S., Fraisl, D. , Moorthy, I., McCallum, I. , Perger, C., Danylo, O., Defourny, P., Gallego, J., Gilliams, S., Akhtar, I.H., Baishya, S.J., Baruah, M., Bungnamei, K., Campos, A., Changkakati, T., Cipriani, A., Das, K., Das, K., Das, I., Davis, K.F., Hazarika, P., Johnson, B.A., Malek, Z., Molinari, M.E., Panging, K., Pawe, C.K., Pérez-Hoyos, A., Sahariah, P.K., Sahariah, D., Saikia, A., Saikia, M., Schlesinger, P., Seidacaru, E., Singha, K., & Wilson, J.W. (2017). A global reference database of crowdsourced cropland data collected using the Geo-Wiki platform. Scientific Data 4, e170136. 10.1038/sdata.2017.136.

Moorthy, I., See, L. , Fritz, S., McCallum, I. , Perger, C., Dürauer, M., Dresel, C., Sturn, T., Karner, M., Schepaschenko, D. , Lesiv, M. , Danylo, O., Laso Bayas, J.C. , Salk, C., Maus, V. , Fraisl, D. , Domian, D., & Mathieu, P.P. (2017). Crowd-driven tools for the calibration and validation of Earth Observation products. In: Earth Observation Open Science 2017 Conference, 25-28 September 2017, Frascati, Italy.