Monday evening February 18 was the kickoff meeting for the NYC Public Lab community.

We discussed organization level topics such as

• How digital communication tools (google groups, website + alpha site, github) are being used (or not)
• Working Groups
  • Education Working Group
• Barnraisings
• Barnstars
• coordinating presentations
• sharing event invitations
• annotated map features in development
• next Grassroots Mapping Forum to focus on NYC
• potential monthly meetups

We discussed individual projects such as

• GLAM: 2013 directions and topics by Eymund Diegel

  • proposing alternatives to CSO storage tanks in the form of play pumps, a Gowanus Canal Conservancy school initiative
  • stream documentation e.g. Superfund 1st St Basin inclusion
  • vegetation mapping
  • monitoring pollution infractions
  • analytical activities to find runoff sites
  • PR for open space (Marylander Site initiative)

• Thermal Fishing Bob by Kaya Simmons

• Aerial microbe sampling event by Liz and Wanda
• Connecting to academia and NASA by Lela Prashad
• State of the spectrometer by liz
• UAV aerial mapping for first responders by Daniel
• Weather stations throughout Newtown Creek watershed by Leif