The Challenge The Metro Boston region, an area where civic leaders have been at the forefront of climate resilience initiatives in recent years, is seeking a comprehensive flood vulnerability assessment of its food distribution networks north…
Community Project Summary TEX’s role Local Impact Broader Impact Denver, CO Testing low-cost approach to measuring PCE while helping one Denver neighborhood protect itself from pollutants that enter homes though basements (e.g. PCE and Radon)…
Photo Courtesy of: Kate Johnson, District Department of the Environment The Challenge As the capital of the United States, the District of Columbia grapples with human-induced and natural threats ranging from counter-terrorism to hurricanes. The…
Photo Courtesy of: Riverhugger The Challenge On August 12, 2015, the US experienced one of its worst hardrock-mining disasters when 3 million gallons of toxic mining waste spilled into the Animas River in Colorado. The…
Image Courtesy of: Horn of Africa Regional Environmental Centre and Network [ezcol_1half] The Challenge The Horn of Africa Regional Environmental Centre and Network (HoA-REC&N) seeks expertise to help them develop, implement and operationalize transboundary…
Photo Courtesy of: Wikimedia Commons The Challenge The Columbia Water and Light Department, which serves nearly 120,000 residents in Central Missouri, uses a lime softening technique as part of its drinking water treatment. The lime…
The Supreme Court does not “do” theory: to have a case heard by the court you need to demonstrate you have been injured by the application of a law, as in the case when Massachusetts sued…
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is an international professional society of over 61,000 Earth and space scientists who study everything from the deep interior of the Earth to the surface of the sun –…
What does community science mean to you? In the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia, community science is adapting traditional ecological calendars to a changing climate. In five Colorado neighborhoods, community science is initiating a…
Two years ago, after a seminar on community-based participatory research, a colleague raised her hand. She was troubled, because she felt like whenever she tried to introduce small participatory elements into her research,…
We think community science is cool for a lot of reasons. Here are the 10 things we love about #commsci: Science is more usable when it co-designed, from the ground up, to address a community priority….
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is an international professional society of over 61,000 Earth and space scientists who study everything from the deep interior of the Earth to the surface of the sun –…
Ori Brafman’s book, “The Starfish and Spider” contrasts centralized and decentralized organizations. As a simple way to show the difference, Brafman considers Encyclopedia Britannica, a centralized, spider organization, where editors invite experts to contribute…
While we have a good idea of what TEX is, we are doing a lot of experimenting to figure out how to get there. This means our thinking about TEX and what TEX looks…
We have identified four steps to successful community science projects, and collected tools and resources to support each of these steps. The steps are: Match: Before any community science can happen, communities and scientists…
Thank you for showing an interest in our community challenges! As part of our partnership with Rockefeller’s 100 Resilient Cities, each community is seeking a scientist to work with on identified areas of concern…
The Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX) will be this: It will be 100s or 1000s of community projects that use Earth and space science to make life better for people and the planet. To us,…
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Written by the Raj Pandya, the Thriving Earth Exchange Program Director, this chapter out of Future Earth: Advancing Civic Understanding of the Anthropocene takes a closer look at what community science really is all about….
A new way to look at conducting community science! Research For Organizing
William Foote Whyte (editor)[icon image=”book” align=”right”] Sage Publications Inc., 1991 This book aims to make a case for participatory action research (PAR) as a powerful strategy to advance both science and practice. PAR involves practitioners…
Disaster Mitigation: A Community Based Approach (PDF, 100 pages) Andrew Maskrey[icon image=”book” align=”right”]
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