PA23C:
Leveraging Social Media, Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science, and Emerging Technologies for Robust Scientific Understanding and Hazard Response II eLightning


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Session ID#: 61373

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:  Alice Pennaz, U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Risk and Resilience, Reston, United States and Elizabeth MacDonald, Aurorasaurus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sophia B Liu, U.S. Geological Survey, Science and Decisions Center, Department of Interior, Reston, VA, 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:

Analyzing Integrity of Citizen Science Data (461574)
Tanner Burge-Beckley, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, United States, Pamela Gay, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Edwardsville, IL, United States, Matthew Richardson, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States and CosmoQuest Team
Analyzing Real-Time Social Media Data to Discover Patterns (411721)
Aryya Gangopadhyay, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Information Systems, Baltimore, United States, Jianwu Wang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Information Systems, Baltimore, United States, Animikh Biswas, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Mathematics, Baltimore, United States and Amrita Anam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Information Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States
Bringing citizen science efforts into coastal acidification monitoring (417691)
Aaron Leigh Strong, Hamilton College, Environmental Studies, Clinton, NY, United States, Parker R Gassett, University of Maine, United States, Elizabeth J Turner, NOAA, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Durham, NH, United States, John Ruairidh Morrison, NERACOOS, Portsmouth, NH, United States, Kristin DeRosia-Banick, State of Connecticut Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Aquaculture, Milford, CT, United States, Carolina Bastidas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sea Grant College Program, Cambridge, United States, Matthew Liebman, Environmental Protection Agency Region 1, United States, Jason S Grear, Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, RI, United States, Ryan Wallace, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, United States, Adam R Pimenta, Environmental Protection Agency Narragansett, Narragansett, DE, United States, Katie O'Brien-Clayton, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Hartford, United States, Joseph Salisbury II, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, Christopher W Hunt, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Esperanza Stancioff, UMaine Extension and Maine Sea Grant, Waldoboro, United States, Jennie E Rheuban, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, United States and Jackie Motyka, Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems, Portsmouth, United States
Putting the focus on science: Astrometry and Photometry with Transient Tracker (455394)
Joseph Lynn Myers, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, United States, Pamela Gay, Planetary Science Institute, Edwardsville, IL, United States, Andres Plazas, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Edwardsville, IL, United States and CosmoQuest Team
Citizen science for understanding, monitoring and communicating hydrological processes: the IAHS Citizen AND Hydrology (CANDHY) Working Group (455786)
Fernando Nardi, Università per Stranieri di Perugia, WARREDOC, Perugia, Italy, Salvatore Grimaldi, Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy and Christophe Cudennec, Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes Cedex, France
Radio Jove Solar Citizen Science (446701)
Charles A Higgins, Middle Tennessee State University, Physics and Astronomy, Murfreesboro, TN, United States, Shing F Fung, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, James Thieman, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Leonard N Garcia, Bldg 34, Rm W386, Code 605, Greenbelt, United States
CosmoQuest’s Citizen Science Builder v4.0: The Python Migration (460988)
Pamela Gay1, Tanner Burge-Beckley2, Joseph Lynn Myers2, Sanlyn Buxner3, Susan Murph1, Nancy Graziano2, Annie Wilson4, Matthew Richardson5, Andres Plazas1, Ben Azubuike6, Lisa Strishock1, Maya Bakerman3, Anna Glushko6 and CosmoQuest Team, (1)Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Edwardsville, IL, United States, (2)Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, United States, (3)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (4)Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, United States, (5)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, United States
Effects of Incidence Angle on Crowd-sourced Crater Detection (455845)
Matthew Richardson1, Larry A Lebofsky1, Andres Plazas2, Pamela Gay2 and CosmoQuest Team, (1)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Edwardsville, IL, United States
Experiments to Better Understand the Phenomenon of Shadow Bands (454334)
Mitzi Adams, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, ST13, Huntsville, AL, United States, Dennis Lee Gallagher, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Gordon Telepun, Foxwood Astronomy, Decatur, United States and Philip Stahl, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, United States
Landslide EVO: Citizen Science and Sensor Networks for Landslide Risk Reduction and Resilience Building (388982)
Jonathan D. Paul1, Wouter Buytaert2, Simon Allen3, Juan Antonio Ballesteros-Cánovas4, Jagat k. Bhusal5, Katarzyna Cieslik6, Julian Clark7, Art Dewulf6, Megh Raj Dhital8, Prof. David M. Hannah, PhD7, Wei Liu9, Janak Lal Nayaval10, Arnulf Schiller11, Paul Smith12, Markus Stoffel4, Robert Supper13 and Madhab Uprety14, (1)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (3)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, (5)Society of Hydrologists and Meteorologists Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, (6)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (7)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (8)Tribhuvan University, Department of Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (9)IIASA, Vienna, Austria, (10)SoHAM, Kathmandu, Nepal, (11)GBA, Vienna, Austria, (12)Waternumbers Consultancy, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (13)Geological Survey of Austria, Vienna, Austria, (14)Practical Action, Kathmandu, Nepal
Local Landslides, Global Perspective: Enhancing Our Global Landslide Catalog With New Citizen Science Data and Inventories (355031)
Caroline Juang1,2, Mr. Thomas Stanley2,3, Dalia Kirschbaum4 and James Shute5,6, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, GESTAR-II, Baltimore, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)General Dynamics Information Technology Herndon, Herndon, MD, United States
Monitoring citizen science data produced during hurricanes (371239)
Carolynne Hultquist, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University, Palisades, United States and Guido Cervone, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geography and Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, University Park, PA, United States
Operationalizing Crowdsourcing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (446335)
Sophia B Liu1,2, Michael Boney3, Emily Martuscello4, Timothy Smith3, Brian Applebee3, Nachelle Wilkinson3 and Kelly Quinlan5, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Science and Decisions Center, Department of Interior, Reston, VA, United States, (3)Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Federal Emergency Management Agency, Nashua, United States, (5)Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, United States
Sensing, Building, and Improving Disaster Resilience through Social Media Data Mining (426459)
Lei Zou1, Nina Lam2, Heng Cai3, Michelle M Meyer3, Seungwon Yang3, Kisung Lee3, Seung-Jong Park3 and Margaret Reams3, (1)Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, United States, (2)The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (3)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States

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