Below is the list of scientists and their potential applications for collaborative CS4760, CS5760 & HU4628 teams. Email<\/strong>: Amy.Seiger at conservation.ok.gov Soil Health is a conservation concept where farmers manage their land for soil quality. This concept and practices have in turn improved our environment(particularly water quality). \u00a0It is a science based practice using 5 principles to improve our soil\u2019s organic matter. Soil health is attended by be adaptable to our environment and planting accordingly and also maintaining the 5 key principles. \u00a0Because it\u2019s so new for many Oklahoma farmers we are trying to spread our resources digitally. We need an app to better communicate with our landowners. Many have questions and we have limited availability. If we have a resource app to improve information output, we can better serve each community in a more timely fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n Oklahoma has 4 major regions with unique landscapes, climates, and resources. \u00a0We need an app that can tailor toward these regions and resources. We need a list of contacts, a list of resource suppliers, and live question response area. \u00a0I want to have limited administration power. I want a limited number of people available to respond to questions. An interactive map to select a list for that region of resources would be great.<\/span><\/p>\n First Team-Scientist Meeting, Thursday, 1\/24\/2019, 4 pm CST (5 pm EST)<\/span> Email:<\/strong> jillian.carr at state.ma.us This app will replace the paper datasheets used by marine biologists and citizen (volunteer) scientists in the collection of eelgrass data during monitoring events. Eelgrass is an important marine plant that forms large meadows, which are critical habitat for a variety of important fish and crustaceans in Massachusetts. Scientists will use this app to streamline data collection and reduce error while working at sea. The preferred platform is mobile phone, and cellular data connection will be available. Data will be used to analyze trends in eelgrass gains or losses, and inform resource management decisions.<\/p>\n First Team-Scientist Meeting, Friday, 1\/25\/2019, 3:30 pm<\/span> Email:<\/strong> chris.goforth at naturalsciences.org Dragonfly Detectives is a citizen science educational program in North Carolina that engages kids in grades 4-8 in authentic scientific experiences. Among the many fun activities the students participate in during their time in the mutli-day program, they also collect data for the Dragonfly Detectives citizen science project. The project studies the impacts of changes in weather on dragonfly flight activity and combines dragonfly counts the students make with weather data they measure with scientific equipment. The app will allow the students to easily input the data they gather into a spreadsheet\/database that can be sorted and downloaded by the lead researcher on the back end. Students will need to be able to input a date, time, location, data for seven weather parameters, and the individual counts for up to 15 students for each bout of data collection. Because some of the kids who will be using the app will be fairly young, a simple interface will be essential for successful data entry.<\/p>\n First Team-Scientist Meeting,\u00a0Thursday, 1\/24\/2018, 5 pm<\/span> Email<\/strong>: djlafren at mtu.edu &\u00a0sfscarle at mtu.edu The Keweenaw Time Traveler is a historic spatial data infrastructure (HSDI)that is recreating the built and social environments of the Copper Country from 1850 to 1950. Every ten years, corresponding with the decennial census, we are mapping and modelling in all of the houses, businesses, schools, and copper mining sites. Individual level socio-demographic information is mapped to each structure, allowing us to know where every individual lived, worked, and went to school in the Keweenaw for a hundred year period. Core to the project is the \u2018Explore App’, which allows the public to explore the datasets and contribute their own knowledge about the region with spatial-temporally located text, photos, and videos. At present, all stories are viewable on the maps at once. Next next step is to construct a query tool that will allow users to filter the stories into themes and display them interactively on the map. This functionality will use the basemaps and data already created and will need to make calls directly into HSDI database via our API and PHP endpoints.<\/p>\n First Team-Scientist Meeting, Friday 1\/25\/2019 at 4 pm <\/span> Email:<\/strong> srkckass at gmail.com Medical facilities are sometimes behind the times with regarding to use of technology with limits efficiency. \u00a0Utilizing current technologies, including scheduling appointments online via a web app, will improve efficiency in a medical setting and allow for greater convenience for patients. \u00a0Improving convenience can create an overall better medical experience for patients. This app would allow university student patients to schedule appointments for acute problems such as ankle sprains, sore throats, and rashes directly through the app. \u00a0Once the appointment is confirmed, it would become active on the nurse and medical provider\u2019s (Physician, Physician Assistant, NursePractitioner) schedule which would allow them to prepare the chart in advance of the visit time. This will allow patients to bypass the reception staff for making simple acute appointments and free-up reception staff for other phone calls or for more complicated complaints. <\/span><\/p>\n First Team-Scientist Meeting:\u00a0Thursday, 1\/24\/2019, at\u00a0 5 pm<\/span> Email<\/strong>: memiller at\u00a0mtu.edu<\/a><\/u> Empower citizens with tools and datasets for protecting invaluable natural resources. Understanding and managing soil erosion is vital for protecting our nation\u2019s water quality and land productivity. The Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) is a physically-based hydrology and soil erosion model developed to predict soil detachment and movement.\u00a0 WEPP utilizes climate, topography, soil, and vegetation properties to predict plant growth, residue decomposition and soil water balance on a daily time step and infiltration, runoff, and erosion on a storm-by-storm basis. WEPP can predict runoff, erosion and sediment delivery by a single storm event, month, year, or by average annual values for either an individual hillslope or a watershed containing many hillslopes, channels and impoundments. A key advantage of WEPP is it is a process based model and unlike empirical models can be applied outside the region where it was developed.<\/p>\n Parameterizing and running the WEPP model can be time consuming and difficult, therefore online hillslope interfaces such as Disturbed WEPP have been created to make the model more accessible (http:\/\/forest.moscowfsl.wsu.edu\/cgi-bin\/fswepp\/wd\/weppdist.pl<\/a><\/u>).\u00a0 Disturbed WEPP was developed for forest managers and has land cover for mature and young forests, skid trails, shrubs, good and poor grass communities, and low and high soil burn severity fires. \u00a0\u00a0There are other online WEPP interfaces available, but Disturbed WEPP is one of the easiest to use.<\/p>\n Another new tool developed by Michigan Tech Research Institute in conjunction with NASA and the USDA Forest Service is an online erosion modeling database designed to rapidly generate spatial WEPP inputs for recently burned areas within the Continental United States (http:\/\/rred.mtri.org\/rred\/<\/a>). Automating the creation of model inputs facilitates the wider use of more accurate, process-based models for spatially explicit predictions of post-fire erosion and runoff.<\/p>\n The idea for this App is to combine these two WEPP tools to further facilitate the use of the WEPP model. Having a mobile web app that combines these two WEPP tools has the potential to assist land managers and scientists in the field and can put advanced erosion modeling capabilities into the hands of citizen scientists.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nAmy Sieger\u00a0\u2013 Oklahoma State Soil Health Coordinator<\/h1>\n
Contact Information<\/h2>\n
\nPhone:<\/strong> (405) 250-5851
\nhttps:\/\/www.ok.gov\/conservation\/News\/Awards_&_Recognition\/New_Employee_-_Amy_Seiger,_Soil_Health_Coordinator.html<\/a>
\nOklahoma Conservation Commission
\n2800 N Lincoln Blvd. Oklahoma City, OK 73105<\/p>\nApp Idea: An informative and responsive app to use for communication, event announcement, information and data sharing<\/h2>\n
Initial Meetings<\/h2>\n
\nSecond Team-Scientist Meeting, Friday, 2\/1\/2019, 4 pm CST (5 pm EST)<\/span><\/span>
\nPrefer to use Zoom for meetings.
\n<\/a><\/p>\nJill Carr – Marine Fisheries Habitat Specialist<\/h1>\n
Contact Information<\/h2>\n
\nPhone:<\/strong>\u00a0 978-282-0308 x108<\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/seagrasssoundings.blogspot.com\/<\/a>
\nMassachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, 30 Emerson Ave, Gloucester, MA 01930<\/p>\nApp Idea: Eelgrass Monitoring App<\/h2>\n
Initial Meetings<\/h2>\n
\nSecond Team-Scientist Meeting, Friday, 2\/1\/2019, at 3:30 pm<\/span>
\nPrefer to use Zoom for meetings.
\n<\/a><\/p>\nChris Goforth\u00a0–\u00a0Head, Citizen Science<\/h1>\n
Contact Information<\/h2>\n
\nPhone:\u00a0<\/strong> 520-444-6282
\nOffice Phone:\u00a0<\/strong>(919) 707-8882
\nhttps:\/\/dragonflydetectives.wordpress.com\/author\/christinegoforth\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/<\/a>
\nMuseum of Natural Sciences
\n1671 Gold Star Drive, Raleigh NC 27607
\n<\/span><\/p>\nApp Idea: Dragonfly Detectives<\/h2>\n
Initial Meetings<\/h2>\n
\nSecond Team-Scientist Meeting,\u00a0Thursday, 1\/31\/2018, 5 pm<\/span>
\nPrefer to meet by Zoom
\n<\/a><\/p>\nDon LaFreniere \u2013 Assistant Professor of Historical Geography and GIS &\u00a0Sarah Scarlett\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Assistant Professor of History<\/h1>\n
Contact Information<\/h2>\n
\nOffice Phone:<\/strong>\u00a0906-487-2189
\nhttp:\/\/www.keweenawhistory.com\/<\/a>
\nOffice:<\/strong>\u00a0AOB 200A, GLRC 208
\nLab:<\/strong> GLRC 316
\nSocial Science Department
\nMichigan Technological University<\/p>\nApp Idea: Keweenaw Time Traveler Story Query Tool<\/h2>\n
Initial Meetings<\/h2>\n
\nSecond Team-Scientist Meeting, Friday 2\/1\/2019 at 4 pm<\/span>
\nMeet in GLRC 316
\n<\/a>
\n <\/p>\nKathryn Kass – Physician Assistant<\/h1>\n
Contact Information<\/h2>\n
\nCell Phone: <\/strong>(906) 281-0992
\nOffice:<\/strong>
\nUpper Great Lakes Family Health Center Houghton Clinic
\n600 Mac Innes Drive Houghton MI 49931<\/p>\nApp Idea: Medical Appointment Scheduler<\/h2>\n
Initial Meetings<\/h2>\n
\nSecond Team-Scientist Meeting:\u00a0Thursday, 1\/31\/2019, at 5 pm<\/span>
\nUsing c<\/span>ell\u00a0phone,\u00a0<\/span>906-281-0992, for the conference call.<\/span>
\n<\/a><\/p>\nMary Ellen Miller\u00a0\u2013\u00a0GIS Scientist<\/h1>\n
Contact Information<\/h2>\n
\nOffice Phone:<\/strong> (734) 994-7221
\nhttp:\/\/rred.mtri.org\/rred\/<\/a>
\nOffice:<\/strong>
\nMichigan Tech Research Institute
\nMichigan Technological University<\/p>\nApp Idea:\u00a0Allow Citizen Scientists to utilize the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model for predicting hillslope scale erosion<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Initial Meetings<\/h2>\n