(Google Doc link) Monday, October 3, 2011

Sara, Shannon, Stewart, Adam, Liz, Jeff

Recent & Upcoming events

• Barn raising...50 powerlines crossing in 1.5 miles. Can we get on river? Please finalize participants list directly into the barnraising wiki page.
• Shannon to DC for talk with Emma and Kate on Togo
• Next Gowanus Mapping (Fall color) October 23 Sunday.
• Follow-up with Bucket Brigade in Rhode Island is happening on Sunday October 9
• training with community around asphalt plant.
• Also GCM doing site inspection with balloon mapping as prototype for adding this method for all their site assessments.
• Catherine d’Ignacio/RISD mapping class trip on Oct 12th - Save the Bay’s remediation site in Providence
• LAGCC - Newtown Creek add into partnerships with Riverkeeper. good to have the map exported.
• Lecture/mapping at Clark University - Hamil Pearsil - peer-reviewed papers
• Lecture/mapping at Harvard GSD/Mike Hooper, Basurama/Pablo Rey

Fundraising

• Environmental Anthropology $2K
• NEH process - procrastination? project management?
• UNICEF - submit LOI

Public Archive/Web

• knitter changes, additions
• http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2011/10/with-public-lab-a-camera-flies-in-brooklyn-to-monitor-pollution273.html read it and vote!

Organization

• Switching Friday call to tool/site updates led by Jeff (tool) and Shannon (sites)
• Time accounting- how can we make this process easier for people
• Reimbursements
• Health insurance- Sara

Field work this week

• Barataria
• Occupy Wall Street - Liz shared those legal articles with Oscar - are we even retweeting about this? publicizing our image sorting and map stitching? what about the confusion with that falsified aerial image?

http://occupywallst.org/ http://twitter.com/#!/occupywithart/status/120490619578757120 http://twitter.com/#!/occupywithart/status/120490818090962944 http://blog.timparkinson.net/2011/09/30/lies-damn-lies-and-photoshop/

• Bronx River by Gena Wirth, also she photographed the outer banks for fun.