<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Please share with </span><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica">colleagues! HOT's Mikel Maron will be speaking. We are not yet sure about live streaming availability, but please check day of workshop. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><br></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">The Role of Citizen Observatories and Crowdsourcing Community in GEOSS: </span></strong><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14pt">A Group on Earth Observations Plenary XIV Side Event </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Date: October 24, 2017</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Time: 1:00 – 5:30 PM US Eastern Standard Time (EST)</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Location: Meridian Room D/E</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center</span></strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Directions provided below. <strong></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">The growth of citizen science is a global phenomenon. In the United States, the scientific impacts of citizen science are recognized by 60 federal agencies and organizations, which coordinate and support hundreds of citizen science projects. In Europe, the European Commission continues to fund Citizen Observatories, beginning with the FP7 Programme and extending through active projects Ground Truth 2.0, LandSense, SCENT, and GROW. Similar initiatives are emerging in other parts of the world.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><br>GEO can benefit from these initiatives if standards and best practices in managing (collection, representation, annotation, processing) crowd-sourced data are promoted. There is a need to explore the linkages of citizen data to the GEOSS and its common infrastructure (GCI), identify activities necessary for scaling up (examples are GBIF contributions, Mosquito Alert-UN...), and investigate methods and tools to integrate citizens-generated data with authoritative ones.  This should be done in coordination with other GEO initiatives such as GEOBON. In this meeting, we will know more about existing citizen science projects and observatories and will discuss evolving standards and best practices for citizen-observed data management and ways to integrate citizen-acquired with established data sources.​</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">REGISTER HERE: </span></strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><a href="https://www.earthobservations.org/geo14.php?t=register" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr>earthobservations.org/geo14.<wbr>php?t=register</a></span><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(25,26,26)">PLEASE NOTE, DUE TO HEIGHTENED SECURITY, PLEASE ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO ENTER THE BUILDING. A PHOTO ID IS REQURED FOR ENTRY. </span></strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(25,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">LIVE STREAM:</span></strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">We hope to be able to provide livestream (pending). <strong>Watch the livestream event and submit your questions for the panelists here</strong>:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RxYy-IPt28&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=3RxYy-IPt28&feature=youtu.be</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Tweet your questions to the panelists using hashtag </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:red">#GEOCitSci </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Also follow the GEO Plenary with <strong>#GEOWeek17</strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">For more information and archived video (when posted) visit:</span></strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span><a href="https://swfound.org/events/2017/the-role-of-citizen-observatories-and-crowdsourcing-community-in-geoss" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">https://swfound.org/<wbr>events/2017/the-role-of-<wbr>citizen-observatories-and-<wbr>crowdsourcing-community-in-<wbr>geoss</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Background information: </span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">GEO Week 2017 Website: </span><a href="http://www.earthobservations.org/geo14.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">http://www.<wbr>earthobservations.org/geo14.<wbr>php</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">GEO Citizen Science Work Program: </span><a href="http://www.earthobservations.org/activity.php?id=142" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">http://www.<wbr>earthobservations.org/<wbr>activity.php?id=142</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><strong>AGENDA</strong></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><br>1:00 PM        <strong>Welcoming Remarks</strong><br><br>1:15 PM        <strong>Citizen Science Programs and Observatories: Lightning Talks</strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><br></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Moderator: Dr. Lea Shanley, South Big Data Innovation Hub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">Speakers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1in"></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">Maria Krommyda, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">Mikel Maron, Humanitarian Open Street Map</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">Laetitia Navarro, GEO BON</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">Joan Masó, Center for Ecological Research and Forestry</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Andreas Matheus, Secure Dimensions GmbH</span></li></ul><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">2:15 PM        </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><strong>Tools, Best Practices, and Standards for Utilizing Citizen Science for GEOSS</strong></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">Moderator: Krystal Wilson, Secure World Foundation</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica">Speakers:<br></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1in"></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">Anne Bowser, Wilson Center</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">Dixon Butler, Youth Learning as Citizen Environmental Scientists</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Max Craglia, Joint Research Center</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Steffen Fritz, International Institute for Applied Science System Analysis</span></li></ul><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">3:15</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> PM        <strong>Group Discussion: Prioritization of Citizen Science as GEO Activity</strong></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">Moderator: Joan Masó, Center for Ecological Research and Forestry</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1in"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">5:00 PM        <strong>Closing Remarks and Next Steps</strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">5:30</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> PM        Adjourn<br> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Workshop Steering Committee:</span></strong></p><ul dir="" class="gmail-m_3849247729921709002gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><li><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">​</span><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">Joan Masó, Center for Ecological Research and Forestry (CREAF)</span></li><li><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica"></span><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">Krystal Wilson, Secure World Foundation (SWF)</span></li><li><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica"></span><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">Lea Shanley, South Big Data Innovation Hub, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill </span></li><li><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica"></span><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica">​Anne Bowser, The Wilson Center</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica">DIRECTIONS</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(25,26,26)">By Metro</span></strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(25,26,26)">: Take the blue, orange, or silver line to the “Federal Triangle” station.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(25,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(25,26,26)">From Pennsylvania Avenue at 13th Street</span></strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(25,26,26)">: Walk down Woodrow Wilson Plaza, the north-south extension of 13th Street beside the Ronald Reagan Building. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(25,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(25,26,26)">To reach the Center by car</span></strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(25,26,26)">: Underground public parking is available underneath the Reagan Building at Pennsylvania Avenue and 13 1/2 Street. Take the elevator up to the ground floor and follow signs to GEO Week 2017. All vehicle occupants must have photo identification and the vehicle will be subject to a 100% inspection.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p><div><div class="gmail-m_3849247729921709002gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Lea</div><div><br></div><div>Lea Shanley, PhD</div><div>co-Executive Director, South Big Data Innovation Hub</div><div><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/LeaShanley" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/<wbr>LeaShanley</a></div><div><a href="mailto:lshanley@renci.org" target="_blank">lshanley@renci.org</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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