Category Archives: Citizen Science & Technology

PLATE TECTONICS PARADIGM SHIFT INTERVIEW COLLECTION – MARGARETE A. JADAMEC, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, NEW YORK

Plate Tectonics Paradigm Shift Interview collection directly connects scientists and scientific discovery with the general public through the form of conversational style interviews. The Plate Tectonics Paradigm Shift Interview Collection is a suite of conversational-style video interviews with the scientists that formulated plate tectonic theory, describes how the paradigm shift occurred, and uniquely includes the…
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WE CAN SEE OUR OCEANS FROM SPACE – A TAILORED ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO PROMOTE ENGAGEMENT WITH EARTH OBSERVATION. – ELEANOR ASHTON, NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE, UNITED KINGDOM

Earth Observation (EO) via satellite-based remote sensing is a powerful way to monitor and learn about the environment and human safety and to inform actions taken to protect both. This project will help bring EO to a school-age audience and teach them how to effectively use it. Through an educational illustrated map created to complement…
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CONTENDING WITH SEA LEVEL RISE IN SANTA CRUZ – AN EDUCATIONAL VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCE FOR THE PUBLIC – TIFFANY WISE-WEST, UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA

RESILIENT COAST SANTA CRUZ is a collaborative initiative led by the City of Santa Cruz to develop a vision, comprehensive information and recommendations for resilient coastal management and access. This project will help bring the critical information from the initiative to the community through adaptation of existing virtual reality technology. Users will be guided through…
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A STUDENT-LED CITIZEN SCIENCE PROGRAM TO COLLECT ORAL HISTORY OBSERVATIONS FROM WITNESSES TO TWO LARGE EARTHQUAKES IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA – LEAH SALDITCH, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Seismic hazard maps are used to predict how much shaking an earthquake will produce and in designing earthquake-resistant buildings. It’s therefore important that these maps be accurate. This project will focus on creating an oral history collection of shaking observations from witnesses of two earthquakes, the 1992 Joshua Tree and 1993 Big Pine, California earthquakes.…
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SHELL DAY – CAROLINA BASTIDAS, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NEW ENGLAND

Shell Day aims to establish a network among community water monitoring organizations by focusing on coastal acidification measurements. The objective is to raise awareness and help to fill important gaps in scientific understanding during a single day of “blitz” monitoring throughout the Northeast U.S. on August 22, 2019. Simultaneous “blitz sampling” integrates local measurements into…
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JEFFCON 2020 DEMO – PHIL CALLAHAN, MOBALYSIS

This project will design and test a crowdsourced wildfire early-warning system with the help of local high school students recruited from next year's JeffCon STEM event. The system would utilize current home and business security cameras facing high-risk forest area and retrain existing image recognition technology currently used for snowfall totals to recognize smoke plumes…
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