New website offers an inventory of CitSci efforts to track coastal change
This is just one output from CPO’s Coastal Inundation Risk Team, encouraging on-the-ground citizen science through the use of interactive visual tools.
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NIDIS & RISA-Supported Research Confirms the Role of Citizen Science Contributions to Drought Detection and Monitoring
The project exhibits on-the-ground details being incorporated into existing drought monitoring processes.
Eight cities slated to run Urban Heat Island mapping campaigns in summer 2019
Community organizers in eight U.S. cities have been offered support for UHI mapping campaigns through the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) and CPO’s Communication, Education, and Engagement Division.
RISA and Sea Grant team up with states to map flooding during Hurricane Joaquin
From Southern Florida to Maryland, RISA teams (CISA and SCIPP), Sea Grant programs, and other organizations coordinated a rapid response effort to map coastal flooding during Hurricane Joaquin using a new smartphone app developed by Wetlands Watch.