April 23-24, 2009
AGENDA
9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
10:00 AM Welcome, Introduction to Digital Earth Watch and Picture Post
Welcome – Annette Schloss
Goals of the Workshop – Jeff Beaudry
Overview of Digital Earth Watch – Brian Rogan
Overview of Picture Post and website – Annette Schloss
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM Informal Science Centers – descriptions of your center (10 min each)`
Seacoast Science Center – Steve Engstrom
Blue Hill Observatory - Don McCasland
Mt. Washington Observatory - Peter Crane
Squam Lake Science Center - Iain Macleod
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Citizen science initiatives and social networking (presentations, discussion and brainstorm)
Introduction to this session: Fabio Carrera, Steve Guerin
Presenters: (order TBD)
Sandra Henderson, Kirsten Meymaris – Project Budburst
Shauna Maggs – Groundspeak
Kitty Gifford – Citizen Science program at the Lab of Ornithology
3:45 PM Break / register users on website
4:15 PM Beyond Picture Post: Sustainable environmental monitoring roundtable discussion
5:30 PM Adjourn for day
6:30 PM Dinner at the New England Center
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM Welcome and Goals for Day 2 – Annette, Jeff
9:15 AM – Picture Post as a Monitoring Tool and Picture Post field trip
Selecting a Site and Installation - Jeff & WPI students
10:30 AM – Break
10:45 AM Using the Picture Post images
Using digital cameras
Website practice uploading pictures
Forest Watch and Plant Health – Mike Gagnon
Using DEW software (Analyzing Digital Images ) to analyze images – WPI students
Remote sensing tools and imagery – Annette
Websites to look at:
Digital Earth Watch - tools for learning about vegetation health - http://mvh.sr.unh.edu
Phenocam - phenology research at UNH - http://phenocam.unh.edu
USGS Glovis - up-to-date satellite data - http://glovis.usgs.gov/
Gulf of Maine images - http://www.cooa.unh.edu/data/satellites/modis/images/index.jsp
Document Directory for downloading (sample pics, travel reimbursement spreadsheet, etc)
12:30 Lunch
2:00 PM Small group work to plan and present projects, and networking
Project Budburst (Sandra will give a 20-min overview of data collection)
Groundspeak
DEW software demos (WPI students)
3:30 PM Summing Up – Annette, Brian, Fabio, Jeff
4:00 PM Adjourn