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Public Lab's 2013 Barnraising
October: 50 Public Lab members from around the world spent 4 days working together at the 2013 Barnraising in New Orleans focusing on education, from curriculum development to field methods.
Kite Photos reveal coal dumping in the Mississippi River
May: GRN and Clean Gulf Commerce Coalition filed a notice of intent to sue United Bulk for Clean Water Act violations, based on this crucial photo by Scott Eustis.
Gulf coast Public Labbers test spectrometric flare monitoring in Chalmette, LA
October: the group is working to set up 24-hour monitoring of gas refineries.
Cape Cod Bay Watch monitors construction of a nuclear waste containment area
April: Advocating for tighter permitting, the kite photos demonstrated their ability to keep tabs on Entergy.
Public Lab listed in Best of Kickstarter 2012
January: Kickstarter honors the hundreds of mappers whose work has been republished in Google Maps and Earth.
Mappers in the Northern California chapter measure plant health at Fort Mason
May: Using infrared photography, Public Labbers mapped photosynthetic activity at a community garden: Read more »
Mapping invasive species with DIY infrared cameras
July: Using aerial infrared photography, New England members of PVOS and Public Lab worked to identify invasive species in a lake near Amherst, MA
Ugandan activists use balloon photos to stall eviction
The Craft Market in Uganda used a balloon map to get a court injunction, temporarily stalling the eviction.
The Infragram project brings multispectral imagery to hundreds of new Public Lab members
July: 1,556 backers pledged $71,373 to make DIY plant analysis photography affordable.
Early Infragram cameras hit the streets
September: Infragram DIY Filter Packs begin shipping, enabling over a thousand DIY scientists to begin analyzing plant health.
Public Lab distributed over 3,000 DIY chemical detecting spectrometers
Get one yourself at the Public Lab store
Over 2000 contributors build their own spectrometer and open sourced their data
Learn more about what they're doing with them at SpectralWorkbench.org
236,946 people from 210 countries visited PublicLab.org
250 DIY aerial maps were published in the Public Lab Archive, and over 1700 people have joined our main mailing list
236,946 people from 210 countries visited PublicLab.org
250 DIY aerial maps were published in the Public Lab Archive, and over 1700 people have joined our main mailing list
Thank you all for a wonderful and incredibly productive year!
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