EAGER: PPER: Collaborative: Cellphone-Enabled Water Citizen Science for Data and Knowledge Generation, and Sharing: WatCitSci

EAGER：PPER：协作：手机支持的水公民科学，用于数据和知识生成和共享：WatCitSci

• 批准号: 1743992
• 负责人: Joel Burken
• 金额: $ 7.2万
• 依托单位: Missouri University of Science and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-11-01 至 2021-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1743992&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; PPER; Collaborative; Cellphone; Enabled

This Water Citizen Science, "WatCitSci," project seeks to expand the capacity for water resource data collection by leveraging public participation in the efforts. Novel, cell phone-based water quality sensors for cloudiness, acidity levels, dissolved oxygen concentration and surface water flow are being developed and deployed to citizen scientists. These participants are then being deployed to gather data for making informed water management decisions in municipalities, agricultural areas, and other water-intensive sectors. This project offers a platform and knowledge source for many future research, education and policy making efforts. Sharing new knowledge may also fuel novel approaches in assessing and projecting impacts of water use and allocation that affect all sections of society. The development of citizen science tools will enhance community engagement on water quality engineering and research, specifically addressing challenges to our drinking-water systems and the safety of our water supplies.The tools developed for WatCitSci include cellphone-based water quality sensors for turbidity, pH, and dissolved oxygen concentration and a particle tracking velocimetry tool for surface water flow quantification. These efforts, initiated at Missouri University of Science and Technology, make water quality assessment assessable to the citizenry, both economically and technologically. The project researchers use the approaches of the scientific method with hands-on, engaging activities to guide others in formulating research questions, conducting scientific experiments, collecting and analyzing water data, interpreting results and investigating community impacts. The resultant WatCitSci citizen scientists provide deployable data collection to "critical control points" when and where water supply or water quality becomes an issue. The data collection, computation and integration platforms can then be used in developing forecasting models to create a wide array of research opportunities. Future researchers will have increased ability to gather data on critical water issues at greater spatial and temporal resolution, particularly in urban communities. The objectives of the project are: 1) Humans in Advanced Networks - Developing advanced data collection and computation in cell phone-based platforms for rapid deployable citizen scientists; 2) Public awareness through integrated student/citizen science programs, bi-directional knowledge transfers and educational tools for classrooms and field education; 3) Integrated real-time data analysis information projection to stakeholders and decision-makers; and, 4) Assessing water attitudes, beliefs and quantifying public understanding of citizen science knowledge and beliefs via social media.

该水上科学“ Watcitsci”项目旨在通过利用公众参与努力来扩大水资源数据收集的能力。 新颖的，基于手机的水质传感器，用于云彩，酸度水平，溶解的氧气浓度和地表水流正在开发，并将其部署给公民科学家。 然后，将部署这些参与者来收集数据，以在市政当局，农业区和其他水密集型部门做出明智的水管理决策。 该项目为许多未来的研究，教育和政策做出努力提供了平台和知识来源。共享新知识还可能会促进新的方法来评估和预测影响社会所有部分的用水和分配的影响。 公民科学工具的开发将增强社区对水质工程和研究的参与，特别解决了对我们的饮用水系统的挑战和水供应的安全性。用于WATCITSCI开发的工具包括基于手机的水质传感器，用于浊度，pH和溶解的氧气浓度以及粒子跟踪velocimettry velocimetry用于地表水流量流量量化。这些努力是在密苏里科学技术大学发起的，可以在经济和技术上对公民进行评估的水质评估。项目研究人员使用动手实践，引人入胜的活动使用科学方法的方法来指导他人提出研究问题，进行科学实验，收集和分析水数据，解释结果并研究社区的影响。 最终的watcitsci公民科学家提供了可部署的数据收集，以“关键控制点”何时何地供水或水质成为问题。 然后，可以将数据收集，计算和集成平台用于开发预测模型以创建各种各样的研究机会。未来的研究人员将在更大的空间和时间分辨率，特别是在城市社区中收集有关关键水问题的数据的能力。该项目的目标是：1）人类在高级网络中 - 在基于手机的平台中开发高级数据收集和计算，以用于快速可部署的公民科学家； 2）通过综合学生/公民科学计划，教室和实地教育的教育工具，通过综合学生/公民科学计划，公众意识； 3）对利益相关者和决策者的集成实时数据分析信息投影； 4）评估水态度，信念和通过社交媒体量化公众对公民科学知识和信念的理解。