What is TEX all about anyway?
TEX is about an urgent need to be innovative in how our science, Earth and space science, connects to society. We face enormous collective challenges over the next several decades – challenges that include…
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Close Contact, Data Acquisition, and the Dutch Consulate
During the April check-in call with TEX, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) team conveyed that it has kept in very close contact with Chris Watson since the introductory call in February 2016. Regardless…
EOS Publishes Article on Pamir Mountains Project
A new article entitled “Villages Must Recalibrate Time to Survive in the Pamir Mountains” has just been published by AGU’s EOS online. If you would like to read it, click here.
Pamir Mountains Project Update: Team Receives Research Funding through the Belmont Forum
Dr. Karim-Aly Kassam and collaborators have received grant funding through the Belmont Forum, a group of the world’s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research. Learn more. Dr. Kassam states the grant will “contribute…
The Acre Group
By: Kylie Caesar In this series, TEX is featuring a number of blogs from student volunteers who assisted at AGU’s Fall Meeting in December 2015. Each volunteer was asked to find community science projects in either…
Shellfish Harvesters and College Students Working Together in the Kennebec Estuary
By: Gabi Serrato Marks In this series, TEX is featuring a number of blogs from student volunteers who assisted at AGU’s Fall Meeting in December 2015. Each volunteer was asked to find community science projects in…
List of Cities/Organizations Seeking Scientists Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh is looking for help to develop a more robust carbon inventory and new carbon dashboard
Accomplishments and Goals
What we’ve accomplished: TEX met with TNH2H leaders and community members several times to understand local priorities and explore how environmental factors contributed to community health and well-being. TNH2H leaders led a workshop at…
Community Science Improves Usability of Coastal Erosion Assessment in Arctic Alaska
By: Clayton Elder In this series, TEX is featuring a number of blogs from student volunteers who assisted at AGU’s Fall Meeting in December 2015. Each volunteer was asked to find community science projects in either…
Connecting Climate Science to City Planning
By Andrew Gase In the coming weeks, TEX will feature a series of blogs from student volunteers who assisted at AGU’s Fall Meeting in December 2015. Each volunteer was asked to find community science projects in…
Dr. Rice speaks to Eugene’s City Council
Current events Eugene’s climate recovery ordinance has received overwhelming support from a number of sources. The City Council has already met several times to discuss the details of this ordinance, and these meetings can…
Boston, MA
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…
Denver, Colorado
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)…
Mapping Extreme Heat
TEX and ICLEI partner city, Washington, D.C., are interested in understanding how extreme heat might be mitigated as part of the city’s first climate adaptation plan. The city began mapping heat vulnerability with a…
Washington, District of Columbia
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…
Animas River, Colorado
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…
Horn of Africa
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…
Sri Lanka
Photo Courtesy of: Maia Fitzstevens The Challenge The Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX), in partnership with the Sarvodaya Shramadana Sangamaya Movement (Sarvodaya) of Sri Lanka, is looking for Sri Lankan and international scientists to understand the epidemic…
Columbia, MO
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…
What can solutions-oriented science learn from the Supreme Court?
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…
Why is the American Geophysical Union (AGU) powering TEX? And what does ‘powering’ mean?
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 –…
Tales of Community Science by Parvathy Prem
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…
How participatory is enough?
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,…
Why are we so into community science?
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….
Visionary Talk Interviews Chris McEntee
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 do starfish have to do with TEX?
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…
Why this blog?
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…
What are the TEX tools?
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…
Community Challenges
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…
Theory and Background
Learn some of the theoretical foundations behind ‘Community Science’ Models of Community Science – Lessons from the Field Learn more on community science as an advancement to ‘citizen science’. The short paper includes key…