Revisions for Open Water
| 121 | donblair |
January 25, 2014 21:31
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Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! Public Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: 1. An open source water quality sensorWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
2. An open water quality data platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
Above: An example of streamwater conductivity data from the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem study (courtesy Mary Martin), visualized and animated using R. Click on the image to see an animated visualization of conductivity data over time. 3. Grassroots water quality workshopsWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Pilot Project: Mystic River Open WaterPlease help us crowdfund initial prototype development via IOBY.org before our Feb 14th deadline: BackgroundThe Mystic River in Massachusetts flows from the Mystic Lakes in Winchester and Arlington, through Medford, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown and Chelsea, and into Boston Harbor, and has supported a long history of economic progress in one of the most densely populated urban areas of New England. Today, the Mystic faces serious water quality problems, shared by urban water bodies around the world: pollution from leaky sewer pipes, waste disposal sites; excessive nutrients and discharges of raw sewage; fuel hydrocarbons; and road salt. Portions of the watershed often fail to meet state bacteria standards for swimming and boating, and its Alewife Brook subwatershed is one of the most contaminated water bodies in Boston. The Mystic River watershed received a ‘D’ from the US EPA on its 2012 water quality report card. Several organizations are engaged in water monitoring projects for the Mystic, but the high cost and ‘closed data’ nature of current technology severely limits the scope of current efforts, and makes data sharing difficult. Water Quality Monitor PrototypesOur main focus at first is on developing open hardware alternatives to the current most common water quality monitoring sensors, which measure temperature, conductivity, and water depth.
Our initial goal is to develop open source, low-cost dataloggers that measure these various parameters over time, storing data on board the datalogger, with batteries that last for several months. Volunteers will then build and deploy these sensors at various locations in the watershed, and go out to collect data from them (using laptops) months afterwards, submitting the data to an online data repository. We'll be collaborating with MyRWA and Plymouth State, who already have citizen science volunteer networks who have been using a similar approach, but who previously needed to rely on much more expensive devices with encrypted data formats. This low-cost, open approach will allow the volunteer community to collaboratively build, maintain, and improve the sensor technology they'll be using, and share the resultant data among themselves as well as with researchers and water resource managers. We're currently basing our data logger prototype on an open source hardware project: the "mchck" -- an inexpensive, low-power microcontroller design with on-board flash memory, and 'real time clock'. This means that it can function as a low-cost, long-lasting datalogger. Our fork of the mchck project is here, with datalogger functionality implemented here. The "water quality shield" we're developing for the mchck will include hardware for measuring conductivity, temperature, and water depth is here. Here are some nice D3 libraries that might be useful. STE(A)M CurriculaAs we develop a water quality open hardware platform, our hope is to incorporate this same technology in middle school and high school environmental science programs. We've partnered with Plymouth State and the Amherst Middle School to explore the best ways of doing this. The Amherst Middle School has already developed water quality curricula that involved deploying sensors in the Fort River in Amherst, MA, but the proprietary, encrypted data nature of the sensors they were using made progress difficult. We'll be leveraging the curriculum materials they've already built in order to develop online, open source water quality curricula that educators everywhere can contribute to and share. The focus will be developing a comprehensive STEAM approach -- Science, Technology, Arts, and Mathematics -- of the sort pioneered by RISD; allowing students to design their own visualizations and interpretations of the environmental data that they collect themselves. Online Visualization of Water Quality DataWe're going to be working with Patrick Herron, Mark Green, Jeff walker, and Mary Martin to find accessible and compelling ways of displaying water quality data online.
Updates
Above: a design for a 3D printable plug that will nicely contain the sensor electronics, and hold the conductivity wires in place.
Above: the first version of a 3D printed enclosure, which connects to a common PVC screw cap for a waterproof seal. Update: Amherst College Martin Luther King Day of Service Mini-Hackathon!We got together and prototyped some visualization / data analysis software for the water quality project. Check out our progress here!
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| 120 | donblair |
January 25, 2014 21:29
| over 10 years ago
Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! Public Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: 1. An open source water quality sensorWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
2. An open water quality data platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
Above: An example of streamwater conductivity data from the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem study (courtesy Mary Martin), visualized and animated using R. Click on the image to see an animated visualization of conductivity data over time. 3. Grassroots water quality workshopsWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Pilot Project: Mystic River Open WaterPlease help us crowdfund initial prototype development via IOBY.org before our Feb 14th deadline: BackgroundThe Mystic River in Massachusetts flows from the Mystic Lakes in Winchester and Arlington, through Medford, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown and Chelsea, and into Boston Harbor, and has supported a long history of economic progress in one of the most densely populated urban areas of New England. Today, the Mystic faces serious water quality problems, shared by urban water bodies around the world: pollution from leaky sewer pipes, waste disposal sites; excessive nutrients and discharges of raw sewage; fuel hydrocarbons; and road salt. Portions of the watershed often fail to meet state bacteria standards for swimming and boating, and its Alewife Brook subwatershed is one of the most contaminated water bodies in Boston. The Mystic River watershed received a ‘D’ from the US EPA on its 2012 water quality report card. Several organizations are engaged in water monitoring projects for the Mystic, but the high cost and ‘closed data’ nature of current technology severely limits the scope of current efforts, and makes data sharing difficult. Water Quality Monitor PrototypesOur main focus at first is on developing open hardware alternatives to the current most common water quality monitoring sensors, which measure temperature, conductivity, and water depth.
Our initial goal is to develop open source, low-cost dataloggers that measure these various parameters over time, storing data on board the datalogger, with batteries that last for several months. Volunteers will then build and deploy these sensors at various locations in the watershed, and go out to collect data from them (using laptops) months afterwards, submitting the data to an online data repository. We'll be collaborating with MyRWA and Plymouth State, who already have citizen science volunteer networks who have been using a similar approach, but who previously needed to rely on much more expensive devices with encrypted data formats. This low-cost, open approach will allow the volunteer community to collaboratively build, maintain, and improve the sensor technology they'll be using, and share the resultant data among themselves as well as with researchers and water resource managers. We're currently basing our data logger prototype on an open source hardware project: the "mchck" -- an inexpensive, low-power microcontroller design with on-board flash memory, and 'real time clock'. This means that it can function as a low-cost, long-lasting datalogger. Our fork of the mchck project is here, with datalogger functionality implemented here. The "water quality shield" we're developing for the mchck will include hardware for measuring conductivity, temperature, and water depth is here. Here are some nice D3 libraries that might be useful. STE(A)M CurriculaAs we develop a water quality open hardware platform, our hope is to incorporate this same technology in middle school and high school environmental science programs. We've partnered with Plymouth State and the Amherst Middle School to explore the best ways of doing this. The Amherst Middle School has already developed water quality curricula that involved deploying sensors in the Fort River in Amherst, MA, but the proprietary, encrypted data nature of the sensors they were using made progress difficult. We'll be leveraging the curriculum materials they've already built in order to develop online, open source water quality curricula that educators everywhere can contribute to and share. The focus will be developing a comprehensive STEAM approach -- Science, Technology, Arts, and Mathematics -- of the sort pioneered by RISD; allowing students to design their own visualizations and interpretations of the environmental data that they collect themselves. Online Visualization of Water Quality DataWe're going to be working with Patrick Herron, Mark Green, Jeff walker, and Mary Martin to find accessible and compelling ways of displaying water quality data online.
Updates
Above: a design for a 3D printable plug that will nicely contain the sensor electronics, and hold the conductivity wires in place.
Above: the first version of a 3D printed enclosure, which connects to a common PVC screw cap for a waterproof seal. Update: Amherst College Martin Luther King Day of Service Mini-Hackathon!We got together and prototyped some visualization / data analysis software for the water quality project. Check out our progress here!
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| 119 | donblair |
January 25, 2014 21:12
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Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! Public Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: 1. An open source water quality sensorWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
2. An open water quality data platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
Above: An example of streamwater conductivity data from the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem study (courtesy Mary Martin), visualized and animated using R. 3. Grassroots water quality workshopsWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Pilot Project: Mystic River Open WaterPlease help us crowdfund initial prototype development via IOBY.org before our Feb 14th deadline: BackgroundThe Mystic River in Massachusetts flows from the Mystic Lakes in Winchester and Arlington, through Medford, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown and Chelsea, and into Boston Harbor, and has supported a long history of economic progress in one of the most densely populated urban areas of New England. Today, the Mystic faces serious water quality problems, shared by urban water bodies around the world: pollution from leaky sewer pipes, waste disposal sites; excessive nutrients and discharges of raw sewage; fuel hydrocarbons; and road salt. Portions of the watershed often fail to meet state bacteria standards for swimming and boating, and its Alewife Brook subwatershed is one of the most contaminated water bodies in Boston. The Mystic River watershed received a ‘D’ from the US EPA on its 2012 water quality report card. Several organizations are engaged in water monitoring projects for the Mystic, but the high cost and ‘closed data’ nature of current technology severely limits the scope of current efforts, and makes data sharing difficult. Water Quality Monitor PrototypesOur main focus at first is on developing open hardware alternatives to the current most common water quality monitoring sensors, which measure temperature, conductivity, and water depth.
Our initial goal is to develop open source, low-cost dataloggers that measure these various parameters over time, storing data on board the datalogger, with batteries that last for several months. Volunteers will then build and deploy these sensors at various locations in the watershed, and go out to collect data from them (using laptops) months afterwards, submitting the data to an online data repository. We'll be collaborating with MyRWA and Plymouth State, who already have citizen science volunteer networks who have been using a similar approach, but who previously needed to rely on much more expensive devices with encrypted data formats. This low-cost, open approach will allow the volunteer community to collaboratively build, maintain, and improve the sensor technology they'll be using, and share the resultant data among themselves as well as with researchers and water resource managers. We're currently basing our data logger prototype on an open source hardware project: the "mchck" -- an inexpensive, low-power microcontroller design with on-board flash memory, and 'real time clock'. This means that it can function as a low-cost, long-lasting datalogger. Our fork of the mchck project is here, with datalogger functionality implemented here. The "water quality shield" we're developing for the mchck will include hardware for measuring conductivity, temperature, and water depth is here. Here are some nice D3 libraries that might be useful. STE(A)M CurriculaAs we develop a water quality open hardware platform, our hope is to incorporate this same technology in middle school and high school environmental science programs. We've partnered with Plymouth State and the Amherst Middle School to explore the best ways of doing this. The Amherst Middle School has already developed water quality curricula that involved deploying sensors in the Fort River in Amherst, MA, but the proprietary, encrypted data nature of the sensors they were using made progress difficult. We'll be leveraging the curriculum materials they've already built in order to develop online, open source water quality curricula that educators everywhere can contribute to and share. The focus will be developing a comprehensive STEAM approach -- Science, Technology, Arts, and Mathematics -- of the sort pioneered by RISD; allowing students to design their own visualizations and interpretations of the environmental data that they collect themselves. Online Visualization of Water Quality DataWe're going to be working with Patrick Herron, Mark Green, Jeff walker, and Mary Martin to find accessible and compelling ways of displaying water quality data online.
Updates
Above: a design for a 3D printable plug that will nicely contain the sensor electronics, and hold the conductivity wires in place.
Above: the first version of a 3D printed enclosure, which connects to a common PVC screw cap for a waterproof seal. Update: Amherst College Martin Luther King Day of Service Mini-Hackathon!We got together and prototyped some visualization / data analysis software for the water quality project. Check out our progress here!
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| 118 | donblair |
January 25, 2014 21:11
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Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! Public Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: 1. An open source water quality sensorWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
2. An open water quality data platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
An example of streamwater conductivity data from the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem study (courtesy Mary Martin), visualized and animated using R. 3. Grassroots water quality workshopsWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Pilot Project: Mystic River Open WaterPlease help us crowdfund initial prototype development via IOBY.org before our Feb 14th deadline: BackgroundThe Mystic River in Massachusetts flows from the Mystic Lakes in Winchester and Arlington, through Medford, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown and Chelsea, and into Boston Harbor, and has supported a long history of economic progress in one of the most densely populated urban areas of New England. Today, the Mystic faces serious water quality problems, shared by urban water bodies around the world: pollution from leaky sewer pipes, waste disposal sites; excessive nutrients and discharges of raw sewage; fuel hydrocarbons; and road salt. Portions of the watershed often fail to meet state bacteria standards for swimming and boating, and its Alewife Brook subwatershed is one of the most contaminated water bodies in Boston. The Mystic River watershed received a ‘D’ from the US EPA on its 2012 water quality report card. Several organizations are engaged in water monitoring projects for the Mystic, but the high cost and ‘closed data’ nature of current technology severely limits the scope of current efforts, and makes data sharing difficult. Water Quality Monitor PrototypesOur main focus at first is on developing open hardware alternatives to the current most common water quality monitoring sensors, which measure temperature, conductivity, and water depth.
Our initial goal is to develop open source, low-cost dataloggers that measure these various parameters over time, storing data on board the datalogger, with batteries that last for several months. Volunteers will then build and deploy these sensors at various locations in the watershed, and go out to collect data from them (using laptops) months afterwards, submitting the data to an online data repository. We'll be collaborating with MyRWA and Plymouth State, who already have citizen science volunteer networks who have been using a similar approach, but who previously needed to rely on much more expensive devices with encrypted data formats. This low-cost, open approach will allow the volunteer community to collaboratively build, maintain, and improve the sensor technology they'll be using, and share the resultant data among themselves as well as with researchers and water resource managers. We're currently basing our data logger prototype on an open source hardware project: the "mchck" -- an inexpensive, low-power microcontroller design with on-board flash memory, and 'real time clock'. This means that it can function as a low-cost, long-lasting datalogger. Our fork of the mchck project is here, with datalogger functionality implemented here. The "water quality shield" we're developing for the mchck will include hardware for measuring conductivity, temperature, and water depth is here. Here are some nice D3 libraries that might be useful. STE(A)M CurriculaAs we develop a water quality open hardware platform, our hope is to incorporate this same technology in middle school and high school environmental science programs. We've partnered with Plymouth State and the Amherst Middle School to explore the best ways of doing this. The Amherst Middle School has already developed water quality curricula that involved deploying sensors in the Fort River in Amherst, MA, but the proprietary, encrypted data nature of the sensors they were using made progress difficult. We'll be leveraging the curriculum materials they've already built in order to develop online, open source water quality curricula that educators everywhere can contribute to and share. The focus will be developing a comprehensive STEAM approach -- Science, Technology, Arts, and Mathematics -- of the sort pioneered by RISD; allowing students to design their own visualizations and interpretations of the environmental data that they collect themselves. Online Visualization of Water Quality DataWe're going to be working with Patrick Herron, Mark Green, Jeff walker, and Mary Martin to find accessible and compelling ways of displaying water quality data online.
Updates
Above: a design for a 3D printable plug that will nicely contain the sensor electronics, and hold the conductivity wires in place.
Above: the first version of a 3D printed enclosure, which connects to a common PVC screw cap for a waterproof seal. Update: Amherst College Martin Luther King Day of Service Mini-Hackathon!We got together and prototyped some visualization / data analysis software for the water quality project. Check out our progress here!
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| 117 | donblair |
January 25, 2014 21:08
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Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! Public Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: 1. An open source water quality sensorWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
2. An open water quality data platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
3. Grassroots water quality workshopsWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Pilot Project: Mystic River Open WaterPlease help us crowdfund initial prototype development via IOBY.org before our Feb 14th deadline: BackgroundThe Mystic River in Massachusetts flows from the Mystic Lakes in Winchester and Arlington, through Medford, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown and Chelsea, and into Boston Harbor, and has supported a long history of economic progress in one of the most densely populated urban areas of New England. Today, the Mystic faces serious water quality problems, shared by urban water bodies around the world: pollution from leaky sewer pipes, waste disposal sites; excessive nutrients and discharges of raw sewage; fuel hydrocarbons; and road salt. Portions of the watershed often fail to meet state bacteria standards for swimming and boating, and its Alewife Brook subwatershed is one of the most contaminated water bodies in Boston. The Mystic River watershed received a ‘D’ from the US EPA on its 2012 water quality report card. Several organizations are engaged in water monitoring projects for the Mystic, but the high cost and ‘closed data’ nature of current technology severely limits the scope of current efforts, and makes data sharing difficult. Water Quality Monitor PrototypesOur main focus at first is on developing open hardware alternatives to the current most common water quality monitoring sensors, which measure temperature, conductivity, and water depth.
Our initial goal is to develop open source, low-cost dataloggers that measure these various parameters over time, storing data on board the datalogger, with batteries that last for several months. Volunteers will then build and deploy these sensors at various locations in the watershed, and go out to collect data from them (using laptops) months afterwards, submitting the data to an online data repository. We'll be collaborating with MyRWA and Plymouth State, who already have citizen science volunteer networks who have been using a similar approach, but who previously needed to rely on much more expensive devices with encrypted data formats. This low-cost, open approach will allow the volunteer community to collaboratively build, maintain, and improve the sensor technology they'll be using, and share the resultant data among themselves as well as with researchers and water resource managers. We're currently basing our data logger prototype on an open source hardware project: the "mchck" -- an inexpensive, low-power microcontroller design with on-board flash memory, and 'real time clock'. This means that it can function as a low-cost, long-lasting datalogger. Our fork of the mchck project is here, with datalogger functionality implemented here. The "water quality shield" we're developing for the mchck will include hardware for measuring conductivity, temperature, and water depth is here. Here are some nice D3 libraries that might be useful. STE(A)M CurriculaAs we develop a water quality open hardware platform, our hope is to incorporate this same technology in middle school and high school environmental science programs. We've partnered with Plymouth State and the Amherst Middle School to explore the best ways of doing this. The Amherst Middle School has already developed water quality curricula that involved deploying sensors in the Fort River in Amherst, MA, but the proprietary, encrypted data nature of the sensors they were using made progress difficult. We'll be leveraging the curriculum materials they've already built in order to develop online, open source water quality curricula that educators everywhere can contribute to and share. The focus will be developing a comprehensive STEAM approach -- Science, Technology, Arts, and Mathematics -- of the sort pioneered by RISD; allowing students to design their own visualizations and interpretations of the environmental data that they collect themselves. Online Visualization of Water Quality DataWe're going to be working with Patrick Herron, Mark Green, Jeff walker, and Mary Martin to find accessible and compelling ways of displaying water quality data online.
Updates
Above: a design for a 3D printable plug that will nicely contain the sensor electronics, and hold the conductivity wires in place.
Above: the first version of a 3D printed enclosure, which connects to a common PVC screw cap for a waterproof seal. Update: Amherst College Martin Luther King Day of Service Mini-Hackathon!We got together and prototyped some visualization / data analysis software for the water quality project. Check out our progress here!
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| 116 | donblair |
January 25, 2014 21:07
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Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! Public Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: 1. An open source water quality sensorWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
2. An open water quality data platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
3. Grassroots water quality workshopsWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Pilot Project: Mystic River Open WaterPlease help us crowdfund initial prototype development via IOBY.org before our Feb 14th deadline: BackgroundThe Mystic River in Massachusetts flows from the Mystic Lakes in Winchester and Arlington, through Medford, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown and Chelsea, and into Boston Harbor, and has supported a long history of economic progress in one of the most densely populated urban areas of New England. Today, the Mystic faces serious water quality problems, shared by urban water bodies around the world: pollution from leaky sewer pipes, waste disposal sites; excessive nutrients and discharges of raw sewage; fuel hydrocarbons; and road salt. Portions of the watershed often fail to meet state bacteria standards for swimming and boating, and its Alewife Brook subwatershed is one of the most contaminated water bodies in Boston. The Mystic River watershed received a ‘D’ from the US EPA on its 2012 water quality report card. Several organizations are engaged in water monitoring projects for the Mystic, but the high cost and ‘closed data’ nature of current technology severely limits the scope of current efforts, and makes data sharing difficult. Water Quality Monitor PrototypesOur main focus at first is on developing open hardware alternatives to the current most common water quality monitoring sensors, which measure temperature, conductivity, and water depth.
Our initial goal is to develop open source, low-cost dataloggers that measure these various parameters over time, storing data on board the datalogger, with batteries that last for several months. Volunteers will then build and deploy these sensors at various locations in the watershed, and go out to collect data from them (using laptops) months afterwards, submitting the data to an online data repository. We'll be collaborating with MyRWA and Plymouth State, who already have citizen science volunteer networks who have been using a similar approach, but who previously needed to rely on much more expensive devices with encrypted data formats. This low-cost, open approach will allow the volunteer community to collaboratively build, maintain, and improve the sensor technology they'll be using, and share the resultant data among themselves as well as with researchers and water resource managers. We're currently basing our data logger prototype on an open source hardware project: the "mchck" -- an inexpensive, low-power microcontroller design with on-board flash memory, and 'real time clock'. This means that it can function as a low-cost, long-lasting datalogger. Our fork of the mchck project is here, with datalogger functionality implemented here. The "water quality shield" we're developing for the mchck will include hardware for measuring conductivity, temperature, and water depth is here. Here are some nice D3 libraries that might be useful. STE(A)M CurriculaAs we develop a water quality open hardware platform, our hope is to incorporate this same technology in middle school and high school environmental science programs. We've partnered with Plymouth State and the Amherst Middle School to explore the best ways of doing this. The Amherst Middle School has already developed water quality curricula that involved deploying sensors in the Fort River in Amherst, MA, but the proprietary, encrypted data nature of the sensors they were using made progress difficult. We'll be leveraging the curriculum materials they've already built in order to develop online, open source water quality curricula that educators everywhere can contribute to and share. The focus will be developing a comprehensive STEAM approach -- Science, Technology, Arts, and Mathematics -- of the sort pioneered by RISD; allowing students to design their own visualizations and interpretations of the environmental data that they collect themselves. Online Visualization of Water Quality DataWe're going to be working with Patrick Herron, Mark Green, Jeff walker, and Mary Martin to find accessible and compelling ways of displaying water quality data online.
Updates
Above: a design for a 3D printable plug that will nicely contain the sensor electronics, and hold the conductivity wires in place.
Above: the first version of a 3D printed enclosure, which connects to a common PVC screw cap for a waterproof seal. Update: Amherst College Martin Luther King Day of Service Mini-Hackathon!We got together and prototyped some visualization / data analysis software for the water quality project. Check out our progress here!
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January 24, 2014 22:03
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Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! Public Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: 1. An open source water quality sensorWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
2. An open water quality data platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
3. Grassroots water quality workshopsWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Pilot Project: Mystic River Open WaterPlease help us crowdfund initial prototype development via IOBY.org before our Feb 14th deadline: BackgroundThe Mystic River in Massachusetts flows from the Mystic Lakes in Winchester and Arlington, through Medford, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown and Chelsea, and into Boston Harbor, and has supported a long history of economic progress in one of the most densely populated urban areas of New England. Today, the Mystic faces serious water quality problems, shared by urban water bodies around the world: pollution from leaky sewer pipes, waste disposal sites; excessive nutrients and discharges of raw sewage; fuel hydrocarbons; and road salt. Portions of the watershed often fail to meet state bacteria standards for swimming and boating, and its Alewife Brook subwatershed is one of the most contaminated water bodies in Boston. The Mystic River watershed received a ‘D’ from the US EPA on its 2012 water quality report card. Several organizations are engaged in water monitoring projects for the Mystic, but the high cost and ‘closed data’ nature of current technology severely limits the scope of current efforts, and makes data sharing difficult. Water Quality Monitor PrototypesOur main focus at first is on developing open hardware alternatives to the current most common water quality monitoring sensors, which measure temperature, conductivity, and water depth.
Our initial goal is to develop open source, low-cost dataloggers that measure these various parameters over time, storing data on board the datalogger, with batteries that last for several months. Volunteers will then build and deploy these sensors at various locations in the watershed, and go out to collect data from them (using laptops) months afterwards, submitting the data to an online data repository. We'll be collaborating with MyRWA and Plymouth State, who already have citizen science volunteer networks who have been using a similar approach, but who previously needed to rely on much more expensive devices with encrypted data formats. This low-cost, open approach will allow the volunteer community to collaboratively build, maintain, and improve the sensor technology they'll be using, and share the resultant data among themselves as well as with researchers and water resource managers. We're currently basing our data logger prototype on an open source hardware project: the "mchck" -- an inexpensive, low-power microcontroller design with on-board flash memory, and 'real time clock'. This means that it can function as a low-cost, long-lasting datalogger. Our fork of the mchck project is here, with datalogger functionality implemented here. The "water quality shield" we're developing for the mchck will include hardware for measuring conductivity, temperature, and water depth is here. Here are some nice D3 libraries that might be useful. STE(A)M CurriculaAs we develop a water quality open hardware platform, our hope is to incorporate this same technology in middle school and high school environmental science programs. We've partnered with Plymouth State and the Amherst Middle School to explore the best ways of doing this. The Amherst Middle School has already developed water quality curricula that involved deploying sensors in the Fort River in Amherst, MA, but the proprietary, encrypted data nature of the sensors they were using made progress difficult. We'll be leveraging the curriculum materials they've already built in order to develop online, open source water quality curricula that educators everywhere can contribute to and share. The focus will be developing a comprehensive STEAM approach -- Science, Technology, Arts, and Mathematics -- of the sort pioneered by RISD; allowing students to design their own visualizations and interpretations of the environmental data that they collect themselves. Online Visualization of Water Quality DataWe're going to be working with Patrick Herron, Mark Green, Jeff walker, and Mary Martin to find accessible and compelling ways of displaying water quality data online.
Updates
Above: a design for a 3D printable plug that will nicely contain the sensor electronics, and hold the conductivity wires in place.
Above: the first version of a 3D printed enclosure, which connects to a common PVC screw cap for a waterproof seal. Update: Amherst College Martin Luther King Day of Service Mini-Hackathon!We got together and prototyped some visualization / data analysis software for the water quality project. Check out our progress here!
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January 24, 2014 21:52
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Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! Public Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: 1. An open source water quality sensorWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
2. An open water quality data platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
3. Grassroots water quality workshopsWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Pilot Project: Mystic River Open WaterPlease help us crowdfund initial prototype development via IOBY.org before our Feb 14th deadline: BackgroundThe Mystic River in Massachusetts flows from the Mystic Lakes in Winchester and Arlington, through Medford, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown and Chelsea, and into Boston Harbor, and has supported a long history of economic progress in one of the most densely populated urban areas of New England. Today, the Mystic faces serious water quality problems, shared by urban water bodies around the world: pollution from leaky sewer pipes, waste disposal sites; excessive nutrients and discharges of raw sewage; fuel hydrocarbons; and road salt. Portions of the watershed often fail to meet state bacteria standards for swimming and boating, and its Alewife Brook subwatershed is one of the most contaminated water bodies in Boston. The Mystic River watershed received a ‘D’ from the US EPA on its 2012 water quality report card. Several organizations are engaged in water monitoring projects for the Mystic, but the high cost and ‘closed data’ nature of current technology severely limits the scope of current efforts, and makes data sharing difficult. Water Quality Monitor PrototypesOur main focus at first is on developing open hardware alternatives to the current most common water quality monitoring sensors, which measure temperature, conductivity, and water depth.
Our initial goal is to develop open source, low-cost dataloggers that measure these various parameters over time, storing data on board the datalogger, with batteries that last for several months. Volunteers will then build and deploy these sensors at various locations in the watershed, and go out to collect data from them (using laptops) months afterwards, submitting the data to an online data repository. We'll be collaborating with MyRWA and Plymouth State, who already have citizen science volunteer networks who have been using a similar approach, but who previously needed to rely on much more expensive devices with encrypted data formats. This low-cost, open approach will allow the volunteer community to collaboratively build, maintain, and improve the sensor technology they'll be using, and share the resultant data among themselves as well as with researchers and water resource managers. We're currently basing our data logger prototype on an open source hardware project: the "mchck" -- an inexpensive, low-power microcontroller design with on-board flash memory, and 'real time clock'. This means that it can function as a low-cost, long-lasting datalogger. Our fork of the mchck project is here, with datalogger functionality implemented here. The "water quality shield" we're developing for the mchck will include hardware for measuring conductivity, temperature, and water depth is here. Here are some nice D3 libraries that might be useful. STE(A)M CurriculaAs we develop a water quality open hardware platform, our hope is to incorporate this same technology in middle school and high school environmental science programs. We've partnered with Plymouth State and the Amherst Middle School to explore the best ways of doing this. The Amherst Middle School has already developed water quality curricula that involved deploying sensors in the Fort River in Amherst, MA, but the proprietary, encrypted data nature of the sensors they were using made progress difficult. We'll be leveraging the curriculum materials they've already built in order to develop online, open source water quality curricula that educators everywhere can contribute to and share. The focus will be developing a comprehensive STEAM approach -- Science, Technology, Arts, and Mathematics -- of the sort pioneered by RISD; allowing students to design their own visualizations and interpretations of the environmental data that they collect themselves. Online Visualization of Water Quality DataWe're going to be working with Patrick Herron, Mark Green, Jeff walker, and Mary Martin to find accessible and compelling ways of displaying water quality data online.
Updates
Above: a design for a 3D printable plug that will nicely contain the sensor electronics, and hold the conductivity wires in place.
Above: the first version of a 3D printed enclosure, which connects to a common PVC screw cap for a waterproof seal. Update: Amherst College Martin Luther King Day of Service Mini-Hackathon!We got together and prototyped some visualization / data analysis software for the water quality project. Check out our progress here!
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January 24, 2014 21:46
| over 10 years ago
Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! The GoalsPublic Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: An open source water quality sensorWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
An open water quality data platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
Grassroots water quality workshopsWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Pilot Project: Mystic River Open WaterBackgroundThe Mystic River in Massachusetts flows from the Mystic Lakes in Winchester and Arlington, through Medford, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown and Chelsea, and into Boston Harbor, and has supported a long history of economic progress in one of the most densely populated urban areas of New England. Today, the Mystic faces serious water quality problems, shared by urban water bodies around the world: pollution from leaky sewer pipes, waste disposal sites; excessive nutrients and discharges of raw sewage; fuel hydrocarbons; and road salt. Portions of the watershed often fail to meet state bacteria standards for swimming and boating, and its Alewife Brook subwatershed is one of the most contaminated water bodies in Boston. The Mystic River watershed received a ‘D’ from the US EPA on its 2012 water quality report card. Several organizations are engaged in water monitoring projects for the Mystic, but the high cost and ‘closed data’ nature of current technology severely limits the scope of current efforts, and makes data sharing difficult. Water Quality Monitor PrototypesOur main focus at first is on developing open hardware alternatives to the current most common water quality monitoring sensors, which measure temperature, conductivity, and water depth.
Our initial goal is to develop open source, low-cost dataloggers that measure these various parameters over time, storing data on board the datalogger, with batteries that last for several months. Volunteers will then build and deploy these sensors at various locations in the watershed, and go out to collect data from them (using laptops) months afterwards, submitting the data to an online data repository. We'll be collaborating with MyRWA and Plymouth State, who already have citizen science volunteer networks who have been using a similar approach, but who previously needed to rely on much more expensive devices with encrypted data formats. This low-cost, open approach will allow the volunteer community to collaboratively build, maintain, and improve the sensor technology they'll be using, and share the resultant data among themselves as well as with researchers and water resource managers. We're currently basing our data logger prototype on an open source hardware project: the "mchck" -- an inexpensive, low-power microcontroller design with on-board flash memory, and 'real time clock'. This means that it can function as a low-cost, long-lasting datalogger. Our fork of the mchck project is here, with datalogger functionality implemented here. The "water quality shield" we're developing for the mchck will include hardware for measuring conductivity, temperature, and water depth is here. Here are some nice D3 libraries that might be useful. STE(A)M CurriculaAs we develop a water quality open hardware platform, our hope is to incorporate this same technology in middle school and high school environmental science programs. We've partnered with Plymouth State and the Amherst Middle School to explore the best ways of doing this. The Amherst Middle School has already developed water quality curricula that involved deploying sensors in the Fort River in Amherst, MA, but the proprietary, encrypted data nature of the sensors they were using made progress difficult. We'll be leveraging the curriculum materials they've already built in order to develop online, open source water quality curricula that educators everywhere can contribute to and share. The focus will be developing a comprehensive STEAM approach -- Science, Technology, Arts, and Mathematics -- of the sort pioneered by RISD; allowing students to design their own visualizations and interpretations of the environmental data that they collect themselves. Online Visualization of Water Quality DataWe're going to be working with Patrick Herron, Mark Green, Jeff walker, and Mary Martin to find accessible and compelling ways of displaying water quality data online.
Updates
Above: a design for a 3D printable plug that will nicely contain the sensor electronics, and hold the conductivity wires in place.
Above: the first version of a 3D printed enclosure, which connects to a common PVC screw cap for a waterproof seal. Update: Amherst College Martin Luther King Day of Service Mini-Hackathon!We got together and prototyped some visualization / data analysis software for the water quality project. Check out our progress here!
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| 112 | donblair |
January 24, 2014 21:46
| over 10 years ago
Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! The GoalPublic Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: An open source water quality sensorWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
An open water quality data platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
Grassroots water quality workshopsWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Pilot Project: Mystic River Open WaterBackgroundThe Mystic River in Massachusetts flows from the Mystic Lakes in Winchester and Arlington, through Medford, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown and Chelsea, and into Boston Harbor, and has supported a long history of economic progress in one of the most densely populated urban areas of New England. Today, the Mystic faces serious water quality problems, shared by urban water bodies around the world: pollution from leaky sewer pipes, waste disposal sites; excessive nutrients and discharges of raw sewage; fuel hydrocarbons; and road salt. Portions of the watershed often fail to meet state bacteria standards for swimming and boating, and its Alewife Brook subwatershed is one of the most contaminated water bodies in Boston. The Mystic River watershed received a ‘D’ from the US EPA on its 2012 water quality report card. Several organizations are engaged in water monitoring projects for the Mystic, but the high cost and ‘closed data’ nature of current technology severely limits the scope of current efforts, and makes data sharing difficult. Water Quality Monitor PrototypesOur main focus at first is on developing open hardware alternatives to the current most common water quality monitoring sensors, which measure temperature, conductivity, and water depth.
Our initial goal is to develop open source, low-cost dataloggers that measure these various parameters over time, storing data on board the datalogger, with batteries that last for several months. Volunteers will then build and deploy these sensors at various locations in the watershed, and go out to collect data from them (using laptops) months afterwards, submitting the data to an online data repository. We'll be collaborating with MyRWA and Plymouth State, who already have citizen science volunteer networks who have been using a similar approach, but who previously needed to rely on much more expensive devices with encrypted data formats. This low-cost, open approach will allow the volunteer community to collaboratively build, maintain, and improve the sensor technology they'll be using, and share the resultant data among themselves as well as with researchers and water resource managers. We're currently basing our data logger prototype on an open source hardware project: the "mchck" -- an inexpensive, low-power microcontroller design with on-board flash memory, and 'real time clock'. This means that it can function as a low-cost, long-lasting datalogger. Our fork of the mchck project is here, with datalogger functionality implemented here. The "water quality shield" we're developing for the mchck will include hardware for measuring conductivity, temperature, and water depth is here. Here are some nice D3 libraries that might be useful. STE(A)M CurriculaAs we develop a water quality open hardware platform, our hope is to incorporate this same technology in middle school and high school environmental science programs. We've partnered with Plymouth State and the Amherst Middle School to explore the best ways of doing this. The Amherst Middle School has already developed water quality curricula that involved deploying sensors in the Fort River in Amherst, MA, but the proprietary, encrypted data nature of the sensors they were using made progress difficult. We'll be leveraging the curriculum materials they've already built in order to develop online, open source water quality curricula that educators everywhere can contribute to and share. The focus will be developing a comprehensive STEAM approach -- Science, Technology, Arts, and Mathematics -- of the sort pioneered by RISD; allowing students to design their own visualizations and interpretations of the environmental data that they collect themselves. Online Visualization of Water Quality DataWe're going to be working with Patrick Herron, Mark Green, Jeff walker, and Mary Martin to find accessible and compelling ways of displaying water quality data online.
Updates
Above: a design for a 3D printable plug that will nicely contain the sensor electronics, and hold the conductivity wires in place.
Above: the first version of a 3D printed enclosure, which connects to a common PVC screw cap for a waterproof seal. Update: Amherst College Martin Luther King Day of Service Mini-Hackathon!We got together and prototyped some visualization / data analysis software for the water quality project. Check out our progress here!
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| 111 | donblair |
January 24, 2014 21:39
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Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! The GoalPublic Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: An open source water quality sensorWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
An open water quality data platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
Grassroots water quality workshopsWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Project UpdatesMystic River Open Water IOBY PIlot Project |
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January 24, 2014 21:38
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Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! The GoalPublic Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: An open source water quality sensorWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
An open water quality data platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
Grassroots water quality workshopsWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The Plan
[See "Project Updates" below to see recent progress in these areas, and to find a way to join in!] The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Project UpdatesMystic River Open Water IOBY PIlot Project |
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January 24, 2014 21:37
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Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! The GoalPublic Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: An open source water quality sensorWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
An open water quality data platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
Grassroots water quality workshopsWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The Plan
[See "Project Updates" below to see recent progress in these areas, and to find a way to join in!] The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Project UpdatesWe're currently crowdfunding a pilot project in the Mystic River watershed, and we're looking for support: Mystic River Open Water IOBY PIlot Project |
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January 24, 2014 21:30
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Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! The GoalPublic Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: 1. Open source water quality sensors and instrumentationWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
2. An open data online water quality platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. We'll be hosting grassroots workshops, hackathons, and research meetings in order to push the project forward.
3. Grassroots education, research, and actionWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The Plan
[See "Project Updates" below to see recent progress in these areas, and to find a way to join in!] The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Project UpdatesWe're currently crowdfunding a pilot project in the Mystic River watershed, and we're looking for support: Mystic River Open Water IOBY PIlot Project |
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January 24, 2014 21:27
| over 10 years ago
Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! The GoalPublic Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: Open source water quality sensors and instrumentationWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
An open data online water quality platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data.
Grassroots education, research, and actionWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The Plan
[See "Project Updates" below to see recent progress in these areas, and to find a way to join in!] The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Project UpdatesWe're currently crowdfunding a pilot project in the Mystic River watershed, and we're looking for support: Mystic River Open Water IOBY PIlot Project |
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January 24, 2014 21:26
| over 10 years ago
Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! The GoalPublic Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: Open source water quality sensors and instrumentationWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood.
An open data online water quality platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data.
Grassroots education, research, and actionWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally.
The Plan
[See "Project Updates" below to see recent progress in these areas, and to find a way to join in!] The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Project UpdatesWe're currently crowdfunding a pilot project in the Mystic River watershed](https://ioby.org/project/mystic-river-open-water), and we're looking for support: Mystic River Open Water IOBY PIlot Project |
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January 24, 2014 21:16
| over 10 years ago
Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! The GoalPublic Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: Open source water quality sensors and instrumentationWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood. An open data online water quality platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. Grassroots education, research, and actionWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally. The Plan
[See "Project Updates" below to see recent progress in these areas, and to find a way to join in!] The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Project UpdatesWe're currently crowdfunding a pilot project in the Mystic River watershed](https://ioby.org/project/mystic-river-open-water), and we're looking for support: Mystic River Open Water IOBY PIlot Project |
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January 24, 2014 21:15
| over 10 years ago
Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops for the Mystic River watershed before our Feb 14th deadline! The GoalPublic Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: Open source water quality sensors and instrumentationWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood. An open data online water quality platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. Grassroots education, research, and actionWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally. The Plan
[See "Project Updates" below to see recent progress in these areas, and to find a way to join in!] The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Project UpdatesWe're currently crowdfunding a pilot project in the Mystic River watershed](https://ioby.org/project/mystic-river-open-water), and we're looking for support: Mystic River Open Water IOBY PIlot Project |
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| 103 | donblair |
January 24, 2014 21:15
| over 10 years ago
Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! The GoalPublic Lab is working to make water quality more accessible for communities. By designing a low-cost, ‘open source’ water quality monitoring platform that is easy to use, build, and maintain, we aim to enable communities to develop their own grassroots monitoring networks. Our project has three main goals: Open source water quality sensors and instrumentationWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood. An open data online water quality platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. Grassroots education, research, and actionWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally. The Plan
[See "Project Updates" below to see recent progress in these areas, and to find a way to join in!] The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Project UpdatesWe're currently crowdfunding a pilot project in the Mystic River watershed](https://ioby.org/project/mystic-river-open-water), and we're looking for support: Mystic River Open Water IOBY PIlot Project |
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| 102 | donblair |
January 24, 2014 21:09
| over 10 years ago
Please consider donating to fund development of our water quality prototypes and workshops before our Feb 14th deadline! The GoalsPublic Lab is working to make water quality monitoring more open. Our project has three main goals: Open source water quality sensors and instrumentationWe're developing a low-cost, open source hardware device that will measure some of the most common water quality parameters , using a design that makes it possible for anyone to build, modify, and deploy water quality sensors in their own neighborhood. An open data online water quality platformWe're working with hydrologists and water resource managers to create easy, accessible ways for communities to share water quality data. Grassroots education, research, and actionWe're bringing together citizens, students, researchers, and water resource managers to work on water quality issues that affect them locally. The Plan
[See "Project Updates" below to see recent progress in these areas, and to find a way to join in!] The TeamWe've assembled a world-class team of researchers and water resource managers, and our network of contributors and advisors is growing rapidly:
Project UpdatesWe're currently crowdfunding a pilot project in the Mystic River watershed](https://ioby.org/project/mystic-river-open-water), and we're looking for support: Mystic River Open Water IOBY PIlot Project |
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