#public lab

[kickstarter]

“The most valuable asset in the Public Lab community is community itself: our research culture grows out of the diverse range of skills, perspectives, and sensibilities that Public Lab members share with each other.” —Jeffrey Warren and Mathew Lippincott of Public Lab

[driftglazz]

Public Lab, DIY test kits, citizen science.

[superlative2sleep]

The kit came on Friday.  Super excited to build my own spectrometer. :)

The first spectrometer I used was one of the huge Spex with gratings the size of your palm, controlled with a remote connected by a cord.  All gears and dials, and a read out for the wavelength you had to know to divide in half. 

I miss it almost every day.

[zachariahthelastmanstanding]

Public Lab is an open community which collaboratively develops accessible, open source, Do-It-Yourself technologies for investigating local environmental health and justice issues.

Cool.

Open source, community, groundwork.

Just what we need to help us come together and create a better system.

[gregthornberg]

New York Times - Forensic Hydrology at the Gowanus Canal

“The Gowanus Canal is a crime scene. If you know you’ve got a crime, you have to ask what caused it.”

- Eymund Diegel (environmental planner, expert of  Gowanus watershed hydrology)

[gregthornberg]

Newsweek - How Civic Science is Changing Environmentalism

Leading the way is a nonprofit group called Public Lab, which calls the phenomenon civic science or community science. This is not citizen science, they say. Citizen science relies on bulk data collection for scientists by nonscientists, and might arguably be more precisely called crowd-sourced science—though it dates from long before the invention of that term.

[gregthornberg]

VICE/Motherboard - The Hunt for Brooklyn's Hidden Creeks

Nature can be built over, but it can’t be stopped…

[publiclabpets]

In preparation for Public Lab's Northeast Barnraising next weekend, Omar assisted Jen and Don at the Jones River Watershed. He brought along his citizen teddy bear and oversaw all boat work while lounging on the dock.