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

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Charlie,

Thank you for sharing this webinar info . I will share this webinar info. with wider colleagues. This is a good topic for a new thematic and builds synergies with OpenCitySmart thematic. It will be great if you can lead this.

Roberto -  could you please add this webinar info and its recording url  to the webinar list of Geo4All website. Thanks.

Suchith


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

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

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From: Richard Peltier <rpeltier at schoolph.umass.edu<mailto: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<mailto: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 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


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Richard E Peltier, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts
Environmental Health Sciences
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