Media
Publications
"From Grassroots Mapping to a Public Laboratory" Citizen Science Quarterly vol. 1 - Adam Griffith, Jeffrey Warren, & Sara Wylie, 3/29/11
"Neogeographic approach to inexpensive oil spill mapping" Directions Magazine - Jeffrey Warren & Stewart Long, 9/1/10
Articles
"Public Laboratory: Don't Just Report Science, Do It!" PBS MediaShift - Shannon Dosemagen, Jeff Warren and Sara Wylie, 11/23/11
"Public Lab's 'Barnraising' Focuses on DIY Infrared Camera Development" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog- Adam Griffith, 11/16/11
"Public Lab Aims for Affordable Hydrogen Sulfide Sensors" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog- Sara Wylie and Shannon Dosemagen, 10/25/11
"With Public Lab, a Camera Flies in Brooklyn to Monitor Pollution" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog- Liz Barry, 10/3/11
"Taking Steps Toward DIY Spectrometry, So Citizens Can Test for Pollutants" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Jeff Warren, 9/8/11
"Public Lab Helps Communities Do 'Civic Science' Investigations" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Shannon Dosemagen, 8/17/11
"Seed Grant Voices: Grassroots Mapping Kit" MIT Legatum Center - Jeff Warren, 5/27/10
"DIY Mappers offer remarkable images of Gulf Coast oil spill" PBS IdeaLab blog - Jeff Warren, 5/12/10
Opensource.com - Jeff Warren, 6/3/10
Presentations & Events
November 16, 2011 - Montreal, Quebec - Shannon Dosemagen and Jeffrey Warren, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting: Panel: Prototype Paper: Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science: Open-Source Development of Tools for Grassroots Science
November 4, 2011 - Cleveland, Ohio - Shannon Dosemagen, Society for Social Studies of Science: Panel: STS in Practice: Science, Engineering and STS as Partners in Social Justice and Sustainability. Paper: Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science: Environmental Justice, Citizen Science, and Participatory STS in Monitoring of Disaster Landscapes.
Sept 16, 2011 - Denver, Colorado - Stewart Long, Shannon Dosemagen FOSS4G 2011: "Beyond vectors: Adapting remote sensing research for environmental monitoring with open source hardware and software: Citizen mapping the BP oil spill with balloons and kites "
Sept 15, 2011 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - "Creating cheap open source aerial imagery and data for community efforts to cleanup a polluted neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, USA" - Eymund Diegel, PICNIC 2011
Sept 15, 2011 - Denver, Colorado - Jeff Warren, Adam Griffith, FOSS4G 2011: "Crowdsourcing Aerial Image Mapping with MapMill.org and MapKnitter.org"
Sept 11, 2011 - Denver, Colorado - Shannon Dosemagen, Jeff Warren, State of the Map 2011 - "Developing an Ethics of Data Openness and Community Participation"
Sept 8, 2011 - Boulder, Colorado - Jeff Warren, Mapping Democratization Conference, CU Boulder - "Situating activist mapping technology"
Aug 13, 2011 - Lima, Peru - Jeff Warren, Open Data conference
June 22, 2011 - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Shannon Dosemagen and Adam Griffith, talk and workshop at the MIT Knight conference
June 6-7, 2011 - New York City - Personal Democracy Forum 2011, Jeff Warren and Liz Barry - "Open Source Aerial Imagery"
May 6-7, 2011 - Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, Jeff Warren
- Cambridge, Massachusetts - Liz Barry and Jeff Warren, talk & workshop, "Community-based approaches to high-resolution multispectral imaging with balloons" & "How to make your own aerial imagery for $100"
April 7, 2011 - University of Georgia Athens, Roosevelt Institute for Public Policy, Shannon Dosemagen keynote and panelist on emergency preparedness and policy response
Mar 25, 2011 - Trade School @ the Whitney Museum of American Art
- New York City: Public Laboratory will be teaching a class on DIY Spectrometry at the Whitney starting at 7pm.
March 4, 2011 - BLUE on Tour- Auburn University, Alabama
- 1:00 - 2:30pm, Shannon Dosemagen - "Master Class: Innovations in Aerial-Mapping Technology"
- http://publiclaboratory.org/event/3-4-2011/blue-tour-auburn-university-alabama
Feb 11, 2011 - Tech@State Open Source conference
- US Department of State - Jeffrey Warren, ""
- Subsequent unconference organized by US Dept. of State - Liz Barry, Leif Percifield, "Citizen Science"
Jan 22, 2011 - California Map Society
- UCLA Clark Library - Stewart Long
Nov 18, 2010 - Personal Democracy Forum Latin America
- Santiago, Chile - Jeff Warren
Nov 12, 2010 - Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science
- Pittsburgh - Jeff Warren http://www.cmu.edu/events/gigapixel-science/
Oct 31-Nov 3, 2010 - Geologic Society of America, Denver Annual Meeting
Oct 1-3, 2010 International Conference on Crisis Mapping
- Boston - Jeff Warren - http://www.crisismappers.net/page/iccm-2010-agenda
Aug 12, 2010 - Ignite Spatial
- Boston, MA - Jeff Warren http://ignite.oreilly.com/2010/07/ignite-spatial-boston-2.html
June 3-4, 2010 - Personal Democracy Forum
- New York, NY - Jeff Warren
May 19 2010 Crisis Mappers Network Webcast
- GeoTime webcast - Jeff Warren - http://www.geotime.com/cmnet.aspx
Press
Boston Globe: Knight Foundation Merging Media, Minds and Money- D.C. Denison, 11-11
The Mobile City (also appeared on Data Driven Journalism): How Kite Photography Can Empower Local Communities- Martin de Waal, 10-11
Creative Applications Network: Mediated Landscapes 03: DIY Cartography (Theory)- Greg J. Smith, 8-11
Tech President: How DIY Science is Solving Ecological Mysteries in New York City- Nick Judd, 8-25-11
BBC Click: How to Create Your Own Aerial Map- 8-19-11
BBC Radio: Laura Sheeter Talks About Aerial Photos: Did you know you could now take your own aerial pictures? Join Laura on an aerial view of New Orleans- Laura Sheeter, 8-3-11
Grist: In the future, cleaning robots will sniff out air pollution- Jess Zimmerman, 7-18-11
Technology Review: Robot lights up at pollution- Kristina Grifantini, 7-17-11
PBS MediaShift IdeaLab: MIT Produces a String of Civic Media Success Stories - Chris Csikszentmihályi, 3-14-11
Good Magazine: Grassroots Mapping: How You Can Create Aerial Cartography for Under $100, and Use It to Do Good - Ben Jervey, 3-7-11
LifeHacker: Weekend Project: DIY Balloon Aerial Photography on the Cheap - Adam Pash, 2-17-11
Wilamette Week: Local Designer To Build Balloons To Help Document Gulf Oil Spill - Ron Knox, 6-25-2010
SolveClimate News: $100 Aerial Mapping Technique Finding Multiple Uses, Grassroots Interest with slideshow - Lisa Song, 2-15-11
Brooklyn Eagle: D.I.Y Mapping of the Gowanus? - Mike Weiss, 1/27/11
OnEarth Magazine: Mapping the Grassroots - Alan Burdick, 1/27/11
Boston Globe - D.C. Denison, 9/05/10
Associated Press - BARBARA ORTUTAY, 9/19/10
abc.net - (australia) - 9/16/10
Guilty Planet - "Balloon on the Bayou: Grassroots Mapping in Bay Baptiste" - Jennifer L. Jacquet, 7/13/10
france24.com - 6/18/10
Engadget: MIT-based Grassroots Mapping mapping the oil spill with digital camera, kites - Laura June, 6/17/10
The Takeaway - Noel King, 6/15/10
Inhabitat: DIY Kite Photographs the Gulf Oil Spill to Map its True Size - Britt Liggett, 6/10/10
NYTimes bits blog: Taking On the Gulf Oil Spill With Kites and Cameras
green.blogs.nytimes.com - Jeremy Zilar,
WGBH Boston - 6/7/10
WBUR Boston - Andrew Phelps, 5/27/10
JustMeans.com - Marcia Stepanek, 6/5/10
Daily Kos - Crashing Vor, 5/27/10
Earth2tech - Katie Fehrenbacher, 6/5/10
MIT News Office - David Chandler, 5/17/10
PBS IdeaLab blog - Andrew Whitacre, 5/19/10
CNN - John Sutter, 5/6/10
Mashable - Geoff Livingston, 5/15/10
TechPresident - Nancy Scola, May 27, 2010
PopTech - Sloane Berrent, 6/1/10
AOL Autos - Kevin Ransom, 6/3/10
WorldChanging - \WorldChanging Team, 5/25/10
TreeHugger, 8/25/10