EAGER: PPER: Development of a Contest-based Crowdsourcing Scheme for Public Water Quality Monitoring

EAGER：PPER：开发基于竞赛的公共水质监测众包计划

• 批准号: 1743997
• 负责人: Weiwei Mo
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1743997&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; PPER; Development; Contest; based

1743997 (Mo). This project aims to design, assess, and understand a generalizable contest-based crowdsourcing scheme to engage the public in continuous water quality monitoring activities at the consumer tap. The approach is intended to allow early response, risk management, and harm reduction in a public water quality crisis like Flint, MI. Two contests with different public recognition reward schemes will be developed, one that focuses on rewarding participants for the number of samples collected at different locations and another that focuses on rewarding participants for the number of new recruits to the program. The experimental design of each contest includes online pre-contest surveys, sample collection by the participants, paper-based post-contest surveys and interviews, and centralized sample analysis at one lab facility. Two different contaminants (i.e., lead and copper) will be tested in the two contests to reduce the potential fatigue effect from multiple contests. Social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter) and word-of-mouth promotion will be used to recruit participants. The survey instruments will be used to collect information regarding participants' motivation, socioeconomic characteristics, and perceptions of the proposed scheme. This project should facilitate identification and understanding of optimal program design features and demographic factors that influence outcomes related to data quality, use of science in decision-making, scientific literacy, and networking changes from contest-based crowdsourcing efforts. The project is targeted to result in creation of a generalizable framework to engage the public in water quality monitoring at the consumer taps. This work will generate new knowledge in: 1) effective design of crowdsourcing schemes to engage the public in household water quality monitoring activities; 2) major motivators to engage the public in household water quality monitoring activities and barriers that prevent people from participating in such activities; 3) an understanding of the influence of people's socioeconomic status, job confidence, and environmental awareness on their participation in water quality monitoring activities; 4) the potential benefits of using crowdsourcing to improve public scientific literacy, social network, and environmental decision-making; 5) the potential changes in property values and social equity resulting from a water quality red flag; and, 6) enhanced understanding of the factors that influence household water quality. This project is also targeted to result in the development of a cost-effective and public engaged approach of household water quality monitoring, and initiation and identification of a community that could be engaged in future water quality monitoring efforts.

1743997（莫）。该项目旨在设计、评估和理解一个可推广的基于竞赛的众包计划，让公众参与消费者水龙头的持续水质监测活动。该方法的目的是在像密歇根州弗林特这样的公共水质危机中实现早期响应、风险管理和减少危害。将制定两项具有不同公众认可奖励计划的竞赛，一项重点奖励参与者在不同地点收集的样本数量，另一项重点奖励参与者新招募的项目数量。每场比赛的实验设计包括在线赛前调查、参赛者样本收集、纸质赛后调查和访谈以及在一个实验室设施的集中样本分析。两次比赛将测试两种不同的污染物（即铅和铜），以减少多次比赛带来的潜在疲劳影响。将利用社交媒体（例如 Facebook、Twitter）和口碑宣传来招募参与者。调查工具将用于收集有关参与者动机、社会经济特征以及对拟议计划的看法的信息。该项目应有助于识别和理解最佳程序设计特征和人口因素，这些因素影响与数据质量、决策中科学的使用、科学素养以及基于竞赛的众包工作的网络变化相关的结果。该项目的目标是创建一个通用框架，让公众参与消费者水龙头的水质监测。这项工作将产生以下方面的新知识：1）有效设计众包计划，让公众参与家庭水质监测活动； 2) 促使公众参与家庭水质监测活动的主要动机以及阻碍人们参与此类活动的障碍； 3）了解人们的社会经济地位、工作信心和环境意识对其参与水质监测活动的影响； 4）利用众包提高公众科学素养、社交网络和环境决策的潜在好处； 5) 水质危险信号可能导致财产价值和社会公平发生变化； 6) 加深对影响家庭水质因素的了解。该项目的目标还在于开发一种具有成本效益且公众参与的家庭水质监测方法，并启动和确定可以参与未来水质监测工作的社区。

项目成果

Tap-Water Lead Monitoring through Citizen Science: Influence of Socioeconomics and Participation on Environmental Literacy, Behavior, and Communication

通过公民科学进行自来水铅监测：社会经济学和参与对环境素养、行为和沟通的影响

• DOI: 10.1061/(asce)ee.1943-7870.0002055
• 发表时间: 2022-10
• 期刊: Journal of Environmental Engineering
• 影响因子: 2.2
• 作者: Jakositz, Sarah;Ghasemi, Roozbeh;McGreavy, Bridie;Wang, Haiying;Greenwood, Scott;Mo, Weiwei
• 通讯作者: Mo, Weiwei

Protection through participation: Crowdsourced tap water quality monitoring for enhanced public health

通过参与进行保护：众包自来水质量监测以增强公共卫生

• DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.115209
• 发表时间: 2020-02
• 期刊: Water Research
• 影响因子: 12.8
• 作者: Jakositz, Sarah;Pillsbury, Lana;Greenwood, Scott;Fahnestock, Maria;McGreavy, Bridie;Bryce, Julie;Mo, Weiwei
• 通讯作者: Mo, Weiwei