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Story Of Oil Field Worker's Death linked to VOCs

Lacey Bergsing left this story as comment to TXSharon's Blog about the death of her fiancee due to exposure to hydrocarbon fumes. Dustin Bergsing was a Marathon employee working in flowback operations....

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Safety Precautions for H2S Research

SAFETY AND H2S Excellent pdf on toxicity and safety measure for H2S from NOVA safety and environmental:Highlights:General Properties: Invisible, Flammable, Explosive, Toxic Odor of Rotten Eggs...

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Bayou Savage Results 2: degree of canister openness

Scott made a set of predictions about the impact of openness of the canisters on results from the test...

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H2S strips batch 2: New Mexico

On thursday the 19 of July, I made a second batch of H2S for use in New Mexico. I followed the how to guide protocol. I opted not to add salt to the mixture. I made 31 canisters with small strips and a...

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Thermal Imaging Tests with Android Ap

During the Community Environmental College workshops with Environmental Justice League we experimented with a free long exposure photo android phone application: camera streak. Here are a couple of...

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EPA Citizen Science Workshops

On the 18th and 19th of July, Liz Barry, Leif Percifield and I attended EPA first ever Citizen Science Workshops. Also in attendance were our friends at Global Community Monitor. This was there first...

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Interesting idea for thermal pollution mapping

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/04/long-exposure-neon-waterfalls/?src=footer

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Great Video from Northeastern University about Kaya Simmons and his work with...

Kaya is working on low cost thermal imaging, he's aiming to test out a version of the fishing bob this fall around the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in collaboration with Cape Cod Bay Watch. He received...

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Limn Issue with Article on Public Lab

Limn a new popular audience journal in Science and Technology Studies recently released it's Third Issue featuring an article on Public Lab written by Megan, JoshMC and myself entitled:Public...

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Digital STS workshop at Arnold Arboretum in Boston

What I didI was invited to mentor a group of STS researchers in developing a Digital STS workshop at the Arnold Arboretum. The workshop, co-hosted by Metalab at Harvard, was fantastic, the arboretum...

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Talk at National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS)

Here is some nice coverage from the NIEHS January newsletter of a talk I gave recently at NIEHS about Public Lab, ExtrAct and my ethnographic research with The Endocrine Disruption Exchange. It was an...

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Methods of Estimating the Volume and Weight of Waste Piles through Balloon...

Developing Methods of Estimating the Volume and Weight of Waste Piles through Balloon MappingHolden and I have been working with a community organization in Providence that is interested in estimating...

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NIEHS podcast about Citizen Science

NIEHS podcast about Citizen ScienceFollowing my recent talk at NIEHS (National Institute for Environmental Health Science) I was delighted to be asked to give a podcast about Citizen Science efforts....

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Successful Thermal Fishing Bob Maps!

What I want to doI wanted to work with my undergrad courses at Northeastern this semester to further develop the Thermal Fishing Bob project and generate some proof of concept images similar to those...

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Making Pedagogy: Reflections on Northeastern University Thermal Fishing Bob...

Reflections on Northeastern University Thermal Fishing Bob WorkshopsA striking example of how scientific data can be beautiful, this “data rich image” shows the water temperature of an ornamental pond...

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Successful Thermal Fishing Bob Test: Mapping the Kendall Power Plant Thermal...

1st. Field Test of Thermal Fishing BobHere is a presentation on a field test using the Thermal Fishing Bob conducted at the Museum of Science on 5/28/14. A special thanks goes out to Kaya Simmons,...

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Report on 1st White House Maker Faire June 18th 2014

Report on 1st White House Maker FaireEymund Diegel, a Public Lab organizer and member of Public Lab’s board of directors, from Brooklyn New York and I had the great pleasure of showing work from the...

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Hydrogen Sulfide Monitoring Tool Well Received at NIEHS Conference!

Showing Hydrogen Sulfide Monitoring Project at National Institute of Environmental Health ScienceDeborah Thomas, Executive Director for Shaletest.org and I presented our two year project tracking...

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About Hydrogen Sulfide Research Paper: "Materializing Exposure"

This is a research note about a forthcoming paper on the Hydrogen Sulfide mapping project that will be published in the free open source journal Engaging Science Technology and Society this month....

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Training in odor identification?

Thinking about whether there has been any attempts at a citizen science kit that would train people in odor detection/identification prior to using odor logs? I'm thinking about how to help people sort...

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