Hello everyone!
There are lots of upcoming events, including one tomorrow in Somerville, MA -- in addition to Infragram Webcams starting to ship yesterday. Altogether a great week for Public Lab!
Announcements
The Public Lab/IOBY featured project of the week is the Mystic River Open Water project to develop a cheap conductivity and temperature logger for rivers and streams, led by Don Blair. Read more about the project here: http://publiclab.org/wiki/open-water
Upcoming Events
The third Citizen Cyberscience Summit is happening in London 20-22 February at the Royal Geographical Society and UCL: http://cybersciencesummit.org
Local Environmental Action, the Toxics Action Center conference in Boston is approaching, and other Public Labbers will be there, with a whole Citizen Science track: http://localenvironmentalaction.org
New and ongoing projects
Research Note highlights
Lots of posts on modified Infragram cameras and image processing:
Hot topics on the mailing lists
Public Lab in the media
Eymund Diegel presented at TEDx Gowanus on Sunday, January 26. http://tedxgowanus.com/speakers/ The event was livestreamed, archival video is forthcoming. He spoke about how balloon mapped "grassroots" plant and puddle patterns were used to successfully locate buried urban streams. His presentation explored how these ghosts of the past can become the revitalized spirit of the new Gowanus Canal.
A Quick Look Ahead
February 2, Boston, MA: Toolshed Raising
February 12, Chicago, IL: Uncommon Commons
February 20-11, London, UK: Citizen CyberScience Summit
March 2, Boston, MA: Toxics Action Center conference
March 2-4, Chicago, IL: PittCon
March 6-8, Boston, MA: Digital Media Learning conference
March 7-12, Austin, TX: SXSW
March 18-20, New Orleans, LA: State of the Coast