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….
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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…
How to Start a Discussion
We have selected some tools that will help you work with communities to design projects Human Centered Design Toolkit Human-Centered Design is the concept of working with the people that solutions are often…
What is TEX?
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,…
Pine Ridge Reservation: Solving Critical Water Issues
The population of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota possesses one the highest cancer clusters among Native Americans and the United States at large. Metal contamination from well water is suspected to be a…
Pamir Mountains Challenge – Hosted by ClimateCoLab
[tabgroup tabs_title=”Overview”] [tabs tabs_title=”Overview” wrap=”yes” tabs_text=’ Who We Are The Pamir Mountains challenge seeks to generate ideas about how Earth science research and observations can help recalibrate traditional ecological calendars for a changing climate. On…
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Completed: How Can We Make Our Communities More Resilient?
[tabgroup tabs_title=”Overview”][tabs tabs_title=”Overview” wrap=”yes” tabs_text=’ Who We Are The US Department of Housing and Urban Development has opened a National Disaster Resilience Competition to propagate new ideas regarding natural disasters and resiliency for…
Completed: Do you Have Long Term Goals for Energy Efficiency?
[tabgroup tabs_title=”Overview”][tabs tabs_title=”Overview” wrap=”yes” tabs_text=’ Who We Are The Georgetown University Energy Prize is a long-term, goal- oriented initiative that calls for communities to come together and propose plans of action for continued energy saving….
A Chapter on Community Science
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….
Research for Organizing Toolkit
A new way to look at conducting community science! Research For Organizing
Community Toolkit
This is a comprehensive collection of toolkits and webpages with content related to community science, partnership building and collaborative research. From learning how to build relationships within a community to developing strategies and plans for…
Participatory Action Research
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
Disaster Mitigation: A Community Based Approach (PDF, 100 pages) Andrew Maskrey[icon image=”book” align=”right”]
The Power of Community Science
Community science is the collaboration of researchers and community members to propose solutions to problems usually pertaining to public health. The relationship between these two parties can be difficult to build within the time limits…
Giving Local Experts New Tools
Dr. Dan Wildcat (of Haskell University) and Bull Bennett (of Kiksapa consulting) have been building their relationship with tribal colleges for years. Having worked on environmental issues for the past 20 years Dan Wildcat has…
Community Science Role Models
Who are your role models? Why? Take a second to think of what makes a good role model in the scientific community. The first things I think of are patience and a commitment to learning,…
Weather Forecasting in India and Bangladesh
How you say ‘1.5 inches’ can save a life. It can save packages of seeds and herds of cattle. The language used to deliver a forecast is important. The timing of when these forecasts are…
Completed: How Many Ways Can Climate Science Data be Used?
[tabgroup tabs_title=”Overview”][tabs tabs_title=”Overview” wrap=”yes” tabs_text=’ Who We Are The OpenNEX challenge invites the public to propose new ideas on how to use climate data from NASA satellites. Scientists with backgrounds in global land surface imaging,…
Completed: Looking for Soil Scientists
[tabgroup tabs_title=”Overview”][tabs tabs_title=”Overview” wrap=”yes” tabs_text=’ Who We Are Taking Neighborhood Health to Heart (TNH2H) is a community-based participatory research initiative that started in 2006 and involves five diverse, urban Denver neighborhoods (Park Hill, Northeast Park…
Vote for your favorite Agriculture Innovation project
Read over the entries that have been submitted here, and vote for your favorite solution (requires a Facebook account). Some examples include converting manure to a bio-adhesive that can be used in construction, mobile apps…
Opportunity: Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIFs)
A great opportunity to work on innovative partnerships with the federal government. The Presidential Innovation Fellows program creates teams of fellows and civil servants to work on big issues. The three focus areas right now…
Help NASA Hunt for Asteroids
Have you heard? You can join in the hunt for asteroids with NASA. And you might even win $35,000. Check out the opportunity here.
Doing Good with Science
The Thriving Earth Exchange is dedicated to “Doing good with science”. We are working to develop new and innovative avenues for communities (a community is any group that might be able to use science to…
Taking Neighborhood Health to Heart
[tabgroup tabs_title=”Overview”] [tabs tabs_title=”Overview” wrap=”yes” tabs_text=’ Who We Are Taking Neighborhood Health to Heart (TNH2H) is a community-based participatory research project which began in 2006 and involves: five diverse urban Denver neighborhoods: Park Hill, Northeast Park…