[Esip-envirosensing] Envirosensing Cluster Call TODAY! Tuesday, Sep 5th, at 5:00 pm EDT (2:00 pm PDT) Summer Recap and Strategic Planning

[frazmo]

Hi Vasu, nice to hear from you! The standards/metadata standards question
is right up ESIP's alley and I hope you get some good  responses. Also, it
is worth keeping an eye on what OpenAQ ( https://openaq.org/ ) and IQAir (
https://www.iqair.com/us/ ) are doing that may be of interest. Best and
cheers,    Steve

On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 9:48 AM Kilaru, Vasu <Kilaru.Vasu at epa.gov> wrote:

> Steve,
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> Thank you for your comments and suggestions. I agree, it would be nice to
> keep a catalog of these crowdsourced environmental sensing efforts.  I work
> in the air sensors space, myselt.
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> On a related note, I think one of the critical needs for air sensors is
> the lack of data/metadata standards.  I know that OGC has SensorML and
> other associated web services standards and ontologies.   I wonder if there
> are people at ESIP that could help in developing these existing
> technologies for the air sensors domain? an AirSensorML???
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> Cheers and thank you
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> Vasu
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> *From:* Esip-envirosensing <esip-envirosensing-bounces at lists.esipfed.org> *On
> Behalf Of *frazmo via Esip-envirosensing
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 5, 2023 12:35 PM
> *To:* Gearon, James H. <jhgearon at iu.edu>
> *Cc:* esip-envirosensing at lists.esipfed.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Esip-envirosensing] Envirosensing Cluster Call TODAY!
> Tuesday, Sep 5th, at 5:00 pm EDT (2:00 pm PDT) Summer Recap and Strategic
> Planning
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> Alas, I will not be able to make the call. I do want to at least
> contribute a bit of thinking for the strategic planning.
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> I recently "got in the game" with a PurpleAir air quality sensor for PM2.5
> that I was able to successfully deploy and get on the internet without too
> much difficulty. For me, as someone with dated and sketchy technical
> skills, it was great to have infrastructure to support getting going (
> purpleair.com ). I encountered a little issue with getting the sensor up
> live on the PurpleAir site, and PurpleAir's user support was excellent and
> talked me through it painlessly. I am at least semi-aware of a number of
> other interesting types of crowdsource/community science sensing
> initiatives. Lots of weather stuff for sure. For example, I see that
> Sparkfun has a very inexpensive weather IoT kit out, although I'm not sure
> about the software and networking support. There is lightning detection
> (see for example https://www.lightningmaps.org ) and
> seismicity/infrasound ( https://raspberryshake.org/ ) and I'm sure many
> more interesting projects I don't know about. Anyway, my points are it
> might be useful and fun to strive to compile a database of efforts such as
> these and to think about how the cluster could help individuals jumpstart
> their own sensing projects. It might be interesting to not only track
> interesting projects but also sort of review them in terms of cost,
> difficulty of actual deployment, etc. It also could be interesting to
> identify "low hanging fruit" sensing areas, where there may not be much out
> there yet, but there is perceived demand and utility. Group ideas on that
> could be shared with academic teams and others to encourage them to work on
> them...
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> I hope these are helpful thoughts. Feel free to ping me if you'd like to
> kick around more offline.
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> It was great to see many of you at the ESIP Summer Meeting, and it was fun
> to do a bit of hands-on stuff! Best and cheers,
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> Steve Young
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> EPA (Retired)
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> ESIP Air Quality Co-Chair
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> Frazmo at gmail.com
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> On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 10:09 AM Gearon, James H. via Esip-envirosensing <
> esip-envirosensing at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
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> Dear Envirosensors,
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> I am reaching out to remind everyone of our monthly Envirosensing Cluster
> Call happening TODAY! Tuesday, Sep 5th, at 5:00 pm EDT (2:00 pm PDT). We're
> eager to have as many of you as possible join us for an interactive session.
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> *Post-Summer Meeting Recap & Cluster Strategic Planning*
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> In lieu of our usual guest speaker format, today’s session will pivot to a
> more in-depth cluster discussion. The main items on the agenda are:
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> 1. *Post-Summer Meeting Recap:* We will walk through the key takeaways
> and feedback from our recent summer meeting. This will provide an
> opportunity for everyone to share their perspectives, highlight what worked
> well, and discuss areas of potential improvement.
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> 2. *Cluster Strategic Planning for the Future:* A vital part of ensuring
> the continued success of our cluster is to align on our future direction.
> This segment will be led by Envirosensing Co Chair Joseph Bell of the USGS.
> We hope to set clear strategic objectives for the upcoming months.
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> Looking forward to a productive call!
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> Warm regards,
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> Jake, Joe, Scotty, and Martha
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