[Ica-osgeo-labs] Fwd: First "Air Sensors Everywhere" Webinar, March 30th, 2016 14:00 GMT

[Charlie Schweik]

Dear GeoForAll colleagues,

I believe some on this list are interested in geospatial open hardware
environmental sensors.

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!

See below for more information.

Cheers,

Charlie

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Richard Peltier <rpeltier at schoolph.umass.edu>
Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:43 PM
Subject: Air Sensors Everywhere Webinar, March 30th, 2016
To: Richard Peltier <rpeltier at schoolph.umass.edu>


Dear Colleagues,



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 justice?

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 30th,
2016 at 14:00GMT (10:00AM EST).  The hour-long webinar, accessed at
*https://umass_amherst.zoom.us/j/268302175
<https://umass_amherst.zoom.us/j/268302175>* 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
http://blogs.umass.edu/ase  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.



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.



Please feel free to pass this message to anyone you think may have interest
in this topic.





Rick





    http://blogs.umass.edu/ase











*Richard E Peltier*, MPH, PhD

Assistant Professor

University of Massachusetts

Environmental Health Sciences

149E Goessmann Lab

686 North Pleasant Street

Amherst, MA  01003

(413) 545-1317 (p)    (413) 545-6536 (f)

http://people.umass.edu/aerosollab





-- 
Charlie Schweik

Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept of Environmental Conservation and School of Public Policy

Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik
Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/

Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012)
- see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545

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