Staff call notes 10 3 2011
(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.