<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear GeoForAll colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>I believe some on this list are interested in geospatial open hardware environmental sensors. </div><div><br></div><div>A colleague of mine at UMass, Atmospheric Chemist Professor Rick Peltier, and I, and some others are initiating a new effort with a focus specifically on "small air quality sensors." We're trying to build an international community specifically on this topic, which could, potentially, create a GeoForAll thematic, perhaps. It also has a direct connection to our OpenCitySmart thematic. The inaugural Webinar is next week. We hope that at least a few on this list might be interested in attending! </div><div><br></div><div>See below for more information.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Charlie</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Peltier</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpeltier@schoolph.umass.edu">rpeltier@schoolph.umass.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:43 PM<br>Subject: Air Sensors Everywhere Webinar, March 30th, 2016<br>To: Richard Peltier <<a href="mailto:rpeltier@schoolph.umass.edu">rpeltier@schoolph.umass.edu</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As small, Build-It-Yourself air pollution sensors are embraced and deployed by academics, regulators, industry and citizen scientists, we are faced with answering a number of important questions on the use of these inexpensive technologies:
What are their limitations? What types of validated data can be produced? Where can they be used? What are some of the novel questions can we answer using these approaches? Is there an opportunity for stakeholder capacity building in the context of environmental
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<p class="MsoNormal">If these questions are of interest to you, I encourage you to join our upcoming Webinar, which is free and open to all, scheduled for March 30<sup>th</sup>, 2016 at 14:00GMT (10:00AM EST). The hour-long webinar, accessed at
<span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#999999;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#999999;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white;font-weight:normal"><a href="https://umass_amherst.zoom.us/j/268302175" target="_blank"><b>https://umass_amherst.zoom.us/j/268302175</b></a></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#999999;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">
</span></strong>is the first of a half dozen webinars and will kick off discussions to open critical dialogue, and to establish a community of users who are interested in these approaches. The webinar will be archived on our webpage for offline viewing at
<a href="http://blogs.umass.edu/ase" target="_blank">http://blogs.umass.edu/ase</a> No pre-registration is required and the webinar can be viewed online or by call-in, with a number of international phone numbers available. Details can be found on the ASE webpage.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We will also host a larger in-person symposium, “Air Sensors Everywhere Small Sensor Symposium (ASESSS)” to be held in York, UK in October 2016.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Arabic","serif"">Richard E Peltier</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Arabic","serif"">, MPH, PhD<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Arabic","serif"">Environmental Health Sciences<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Arabic","serif"">149E Goessmann Lab<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Arabic","serif"">Amherst, MA 01003<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Charlie Schweik<br><br>Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<div>Dept of Environmental Conservation and School of Public Policy</div><div><br><div>Personal website: <a href="http://people.umass.edu/cschweik" target="_blank">http://people.umass.edu/cschweik</a></div><div>Publications: <a href="http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/" target="_blank">http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/</a></div><div><br>Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see <a href="http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>--------------------------------------------</div><div>Q: Why do I try my best to keep my emails to five sentences or less?</div><div>A: <a href="http://five.sentenc.es" target="_blank">http://five.sentenc.es</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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