The MacGyver Session: The Place for Novel, Exciting, Self-Made, Hacked, or Improved Sensors and Software Solutions to Contribute to Participatory and Community Science

Session ID#: 282268

Session Description:
This 18th edition of the MacGyver session invites innovators, tinkerers, community scientists, and everyone who is passionate about making science more accessible from  across all AGU sections! With hands-on demonstrations and presentations, this might be the most exciting set of poster-only sessions of the AGU Fall Meeting, featuring: 

-Open-source or do-it-yourself solutions for public participation in science.

-Sensor/human networks designed for community-engaged research. -Community-centered data dashboards, data storage, or transmission solutions (e.g., LoRa, WIFI, or GSM).

-Community initiatives facilitating the creation and sharing of novel sensors, data-acquisition, and data-transmission technologies. 

This session shares Science & Society Section innovations with the broader AGU community. If you are interested in the societal impacts of developing and applying sensing methods, integrating or building sensors with communities, or transmitting, sharing, and using data for participatory science or other applications, then this session is for you! All case studies, methods, or approaches are welcome. 

Index Terms:

0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]
4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]
9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
Primary Convener:  Kyra Selina Hagge, East Carolina University, Department of Earth, Environment and Planning, Greenville, United States and Ada Inman
Conveners:  Ada Inman, EPIC-Network, Madison, United States, Kathryn A Semmens, Nurture Nature Center, Easton, PA, United States, Edgar Guerron Orejuela, University of South Florida, School of Geosciences, Tampa, United States and Ada Inman
Student/Early Career Convener:  Domani Turner-Ward, University of West Florida, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Pensacola, FL, United States and Ada Inman
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