| 项目编号: | 1743985
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| 项目名称: | EAGER: PPER: Collaborative: Cellphone-Enabled Water Citizen Science for Data and Knowledge Generation, and Sharing: WatCitSci |
| 作者: | Sriram Chellappan
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| 承担单位: | University of South Florida
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| 批准年: | 2017
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| 开始日期: | 2017-11-01
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| 结束日期: | 2018-10-31
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| 资助金额: | 28000
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Engineering - Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
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| 英文关键词: | watcitsci
; student/citizen science program
; surface water flow quantification
; project
; drinking-water system
; water citizen science
; knowledge source
; water use
; water attitude
; critical water issue
; cellphone-based water quality sensor
; citizen science knowledge
; citizen scientist
; water supplies
; integrated real-time data analysis information projection
; water quality engineering
; water supply
; water datum
; bi-directional knowledge transfer
; rapid deployable citizen scientist
; surface water flow
; water resource datum collection
; other water-intensive sector
; resultant watcitsci citizen scientist
; water quality
; citizen science tool
; cell phone-based water quality sensor
; informed water management decision
; new knowledge
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| 英文摘要: | 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. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/88665
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| Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划
科学计划与规划
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Sriram Chellappan. EAGER: PPER: Collaborative: Cellphone-Enabled Water Citizen Science for Data and Knowledge Generation, and Sharing: WatCitSci. 2017-01-01.
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