PA22B:
Leveraging Social Media, Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science, and Emerging Technologies for Robust Scientific Understanding and Hazard Response I


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Session ID#: 61367

Session Description:
This session will cover the use of social media, crowdsourcing, citizen science, and emerging technology to understand and respond to hazards as well as participatory projects with robust scientific results resulting in published research and operational applications. For example, recent disasters have led to increasing use of these technologies for response efforts.  Organizations are increasingly interested in leveraging social media and crowdsourcing to obtain real-time updates and harness the power of the crowd. However, there are still misconceptions in the reliability of crowdsourced and citizen science data and how to use these data for operational purposes. Data from the public and emerging technologies can elucidate scientific problems at scales not otherwise tractable and also provide high quality and useful data. This session will provide an interdisciplinary forum for these results to be discussed broadly elucidating the scientific and operational potential of the emerging field of crowdsourcing and citizen science.
Primary Convener:  Sophia B Liu, U.S. Geological Survey, Science and Decisions Center, Department of Interior, Reston, VA, United States
Conveners:  Alice Pennaz, U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Risk and Resilience, Reston, United States, Elizabeth MacDonald, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Laura Oremland, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sophia B Liu, U.S. Geological Survey, Science and Decisions Center, Department of Interior, Reston, VA, United States
Chairs:  Sophia B Liu, U.S. Geological Survey, Science and Decisions Center, Department of Interior, Reston, VA, United States and Laura Oremland, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Elizabeth MacDonald, Aurorasaurus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
1964 Real-time and responsive information delivery [INFORMATICS]
4352 Interaction between science and disaster management authorities [NATURAL HAZARDS]
9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings) [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Citizen Scientists Virtually Access Remote Western Alaska to help researchers investigate the demography of endangered Steller sea Lions (441243)
Katie Sweeney and Thomas Gelatt, NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Modeling Amateur Radio Soundings of the Ionospheric Response to the 2017 Great American Eclipse (Invited) (418915)
Nathaniel A Frissell1, Joshua D Katz2, Spencer W Gunning2, Joshua S. Vega2, Andrew J Gerrard3, Gregory Duane Earle4, Magdalina Louise Moses5, Mary Lou West6, Joseph Huba7, Philip John Erickson8, Ethan S Miller9, Robert Gerzoff10, William Liles11 and H. Ward Silver12, (1)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research - Physics, Newark, United States, (2)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research - Physics, Newark, NJ, United States, (3)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, (4)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, (5)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (6)Montclair State University, Physics and Astronomy, Montclair, NJ, United States, (7)US Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC, United States, (8)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, United States, (9)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (10)HamSCI Community Volunteer, Scranton, United States, (11)George Mason University (alumni), Fairfax, United States, (12)American Radio Relay Leage, Newington, United States
iCoast – Did the Coast Change? A Look at Crowd Sourced Classifications of Oblique Imagery Collected After Hurricane Sandy, 2012 (434099)
Karen L.M. Morgan, U.S Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Nathaniel G Plant, USGS, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Hilary F Stockdon, U.S. Geological Survey, Saint Petersburg, United States and Richard Snell, U.S Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Science Center, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States
“Hey Alexa, Open USGS Did You Feel It?” — Exploring voice-enabled technologies to improve the citizen-science earthquake reporting experience (388041)
David J Wald, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, Tim Woods, USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA, United States and Vincent Paul R Quitoriano, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States
A Geospatial Comparison of 911 Calls, Social Media Posts, and Coast Guard Call Center Traffic During Hurricane Harvey (468486)
Evan Twarog1, Chris Verlinden2, Reid Wiegleb3, Kimberly Young-McLear4 and Clara Beckert1, (1)US Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT, United States, (2)Applied Ocean Sciences, Clarksburg, United States, (3)US Coast Guard Academy, New London, United States, (4)US Coast Guard Academy, Department of Engineering, New London, CT, United States
Collaborating with Fishers and Divers to Detect Shifts in the Distribution of Marine Species: The Value of Citizen Science and Community Engagement (418271)
Roger Griffis, NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Gretta Pecl, University of Tasmania, Centre for Marine Socioecology, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Jemina Stuart-Smith, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia and Jay Peterson, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Achieving High Quality Data in Community-Based Water Quality Monitoring: Fulfilling Community & Scientific Objectives (456301)
Edda A Mutter1, Nicole Michelle Herman-Mercer2, Ronald Antweiler3, Ryan Toohey4, Paul F Schuster3 and Nicole J Wilson5, (1)Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)USGS, Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, Denver, United States, (3)USGS, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)USGS Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (5)University of British Columbia, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Crowdsourcing Solutions for Disaster Response: Use Case Model for Improving Global Economy of Scale (464721)
Heather Irene Succio, Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States and The Big Tent Humanitarian Response Mission Team
Crowdsourcing Apps Promise for the Emergency Management Community: Improve Response and Recovery Efforts (392057)
Charmel Menzel, ESRI, Redlands, CA, United States and Tim Frazier, Georgetown University, Emergency and Disaster Management Program, Washington, DC, United States
A Citation Study of Citizen Science Papers in Space Science and Astronomy (408606)
Sten Felix Odenwald, ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, DC, United States

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