Citizen science programs monitoring ecosystems and natural resources are promoted for their potential to foster environmental awareness and stewardship. We surveyed volunteers in natural resource monitoring programs to determine whether they perceived changes in their environmental attitudes and decision‐making. The majority of participants perceived changes in their attitude toward the resource being monitored, but not in their decision‐making toward the resource they monitored or toward the environment more broadly. While the resources volunteers monitored in this study were diverse, program volunteers themselves were not. Participants were largely white, older, affluent, well‐educated, held strong preexisting environmental attitudes, and were involved in other conservation, research, or management efforts. While engaging this narrow range of self‐selected volunteers has the potential to reinforce existing pro‐environmental attitudes through strengthening social networks, citizen science programs can increase their potential to promote attitude and behavioral change by making a concerted effort to engage a more diverse “citizenry.”

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公民科学：探索自然资源监测计划对环境态度和行为产生影响的潜力

促进了监测生态系统和自然资源的公民科学计划的潜力，以促进环境意识和管理。我们对自然资源监测计划中的志愿者进行了调查，以确定他们是否感知到其环境态度和决策方面的变化。大多数参与者认为他们对被监控资源的态度发生了变化，但对所监控资源或对更广泛的环境的决策却没有变化。尽管这项研究中监测的志愿者资源是多种多样的，但项目志愿者本身却不是。参与者主要是白人，年长，富裕，受过良好教育，对环境怀有强烈的态度，并参与了其他保护，研究或管理工作。