Annual Report

Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science Letter from Public Lab

Since 2010, the Public Lab community we could identify oil on the spot or has grown from a 200 person mailing how we could reframe the necessity list— the “Grassroots Mappers” who of expensive lab equipment to do our put in endless efforts and energy own monitoring. during the 2010 BP Oil Disaster—to Our work to create an oil spill a fully funded nonprofit with over response kit has been informed by 3,000 contributors. We have found news of oil train derailments and our niche as an organization: we spills in other regions like the Great bring together individuals from Lakes. These types of everyday different backgrounds, build on our environmental health hazards occur collective expertise, and experience globally and have pushed Public to address existing gaps in traditional Lab, through 2013 and moving environmental monitoring, namely forward in 2014, to create a focused the lack of tools, methods, and network around creating tools and access for communities concerned communities of expertise (whether about the health of their neighbors local or scientific), who are prepared to and local environment. Public Lab act as a supportive network of global is committed to reimagining the community science practitioners. research/participant model as a place where people can collectively learn, Imagine if a community dealing with build, and create together in a way their everyday, slow moving local that recognizes expertise within each river pollution could turn towards individual, whether it be in a scientific the resources that the Public Lab field, as community organizer, or Open Water initiative can provide: environmental educator. We are a community with a breadth of building a community that creates experience, interest in collaboratively accessible, low cost civically engaged working on finding solutions and tools monitoring methods. We look for measuring the health of water, forward to focusing our efforts around resources for immediate sampling, and community science and data advocacy the ability to interface with an issue in the coming years. affecting their community. This is what we’re working towards. When the seven co-founders of Public Lab came together after Our focus in 2014 has been to the BP oil disaster and thought introduce and reframe our work into through creating an organization, the thematic focuses of Open Air, we focused on the gaps in everyday Water, and Land. We’ve had the social and environmental crises opportunity to grow our outreach around us, finding that there weren’t staff and our Kits initiative giving us points of access for response by the the capacity to focus on new projects. communities directly impacted. As We’re in a year of expansion, looking the work of Public Lab increased and towards broadening and growing more people came to view Public Lab the story of Public Lab through the as a resource abundant community of projects that uniquely tie innovative practitioners and doers, we continued media to community organizing, to see that environmental issues public health and environmentalism. surround us and impact us when least By concretely focusing on supporting expected. During 2013, we worked people working on the everyday towards building up community environmental impacts in their response capabilities and proactive own communities, we’re building a networks that would be responsive framework of data in action as we look to local issues and through the wider towards the next years of our work. Public Lab network, to global issues. —The Public Lab nonprofit team Our full scale launch of the Public Lab spectrometry project in late 2012 and early 2013, was informed by our experiences during the initial days of the BP oil disaster; walking beaches and coming across large tar balls, asking questions about how Table of Contents

Letter from Public Lab 2

2013 Highlights 5

Stories from the Field 6

Essays from the Public Lab Community

Don Blair, Open Water 10

Cindy Regalado, Transformative Experiences in the DIY Realm 12

Scott Eustis, Getting Action on Gulf Restoration 14

Hagit Keysar, Open Community 16

Public Lab Kit Initiatives 18

Workshops & Events in 2013 20

Partners & Collaborators 22

Public Lab at a Glance 24

Finances 26

Staff & Board 27

Organizers 28

Donors 30

Public Lab in the Media 34

Layout and Editing by Molly Danielsson, August 2014.

3 4 Public Lab 2013 Highlights

Over 236,946 people from 210 countries visited PublicLab.org during 2013.

Public Lab became a The Infragram, a near- registered 501(c)3 not- infrared photography for-profit organization, project, launched via on October 23, 2013, Kickstarter in July 2013 retroactive to January netting $71,373 from 2012. 1,556 backers with a $10,000 match from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Public Lab was selected as an Honorable Mention Public Lab launched its in the 2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, the kits program in January prestigious annual design science competition 2013; by December named “Socially-Responsible Design’s Highest 2013 over 3,000 DIY Award” by Metropolis Magazine. spectrometers were distributed.

Public Lab hosted the third annual Barnraising in October 2013. Although a tropical storm forced the gathering to move from Cocodrie to New Orleans, over fifty people from across the globe joined the retreat.

5 United Bulk Coal Terminal Monitoring our stories Ironton, Louisiana With Public Lab training, tools, and support, Public Lab organizer Scott Eustis of Gulf Restoration Network (GRN) and Devin Martin of Sierra Club successfully captured low-altitude photos of ongoing coal export dumping in the Mississippi River. The images they secured of the coal pile over time changed GRN’s understanding of the extent of Oiltanking/United Bulk’s alleged environmental crimes and led to funding for further documentation and water quality analysis of this facility, culminating in a notice of intent to sue under the Clean Water Act. Although GRN had been passively monitoring this site via aircraft, the kite photo, because of its low-altitude and oblique angle, led to a new understanding that moved Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to do a site visit. GRN, Sierra Club, Louisiana Environmental Action, Tulane Law, and Public Citizen, have prepared to sue to improve the facility and levy fines against the company for their damages to Louisiana’s waters: they are currently in negotiations with the company. The image itself is one of a series in legal proceedings, but is more value than others taken by planes because of its level of detail. The photo is used as an organizing tool to demonstrate effective imagery for officially documenting Oiltanking’s water pollution crimes to volunteer pilots and GRN members who reside in the area.

Refining Methodologies for Oil Identification

Boston, Massachusetts Testing at a Boston-area meet up helped to refine “do-it-yourself” methodologies for identifying different contaminant oils— ranging from motor oil to tar balls washed ashore after a crude oil spill. Attendees to the event, hosted by the neighborhood education group Parts & Crafts, included local residents, as well as members of the Mystic River Watershed Association and Pioneer Valley Open Science. The prototype testing involved a new technique for distinguishing oil samples via florescence using an inexpensive blue laser pointer. The tests were promising, and the technique appears robust: showing similar fluorescence curves despite slight variations in sample preparation. These were included in our alpha-stage prototype oil contamination test kit and continue to be developed. These methods show great promise, and will likely be included in our prototype oil contamination test kit. Follow progress on the oil testing kit here: publiclab.org/tag/oil-testing-kit.

Balloon Mapping of River Restoration at Mardi Gras Pass Mississippi Delta

Gulf Restoration Network (GRN), a wetlands watchdog group and a valuable partner of Public Lab, has repeatedly used aerial mapping tools to advocate for wetlands restoration projects and to keep community and partner organizations abreast of progress (or lack thereof). One specific instance is the use of kite photography to educate and agitate for the closure of a new branch of the Mississippi River, “Mardi Gras Pass.” If left alone, this new distributary arm would feed protective marshes and swamps with nourishing sediment and water.

6 our stories

Documenting Restoration Projects in Yellow Bar Jamaica Bay, New York City Public Lab organizers Gena Wirth and Eymund Diegel, along with Rob Holmes of the Dredge Research Collaborative, conducted aerial imaging documentation on various restoration islands in Jamaica Bay. Aerial maps document progress on the Army Corps of Engineers initiative to restore eroding salt marsh habitat with recycled dredge material, show shoreline and vegetation change over time, and document citizen participation in these efforts.

Jamaica Bay’s islands are in constant transformation. For decades, Yellow Bar hassock (pictured here) has been shrinking and losing ground due to intensifying urban impacts in the Jamaica Bay watershed. This pattern recently reversed course under the direction of the Army Corps of Engineers, who use the island as a site to dispose of dredge material and as a test case for expanding ecosystems in decline. Like much of Jamaica Bay, the resulting landscape is neither fully industrial nor fully natural, though it retains aesthetic and performative qualities of both. The flat expanse of newly constructed ground is composed of clean sand dredged from the Ambrose Channel, the main shipping channel leading to the port of New York/New Jersey. Aerial maps reveal the regularized distribution of the complex marsh matrix of sediment, Spartina (cordgrass), and ribbed mussels, which grow together in a functional ecosystem and stabilize the marshland. Beyond the dotted fringe of cordgrass clumps, the photos document the expansive island interior, touched by the Army Corps of Engineers in a more economical fashion with a grid of fences marking Spartina plug planting zones. Mapping events have been led in partnership with the American Littoral Society and Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers.

Use of Balloon Mapping to Temporarily Stall Eviction Kampala, Uganda Using aerial mapping, the Craft Market near Kampala worked with María Lamadrid to combine a high resolution map of the area with community narratives. The goal was to gain time so the community could organize next steps and create a dialogue around urban planning and displacement. The Craft Market was able to legally stall their eviction for a month by using the map to acquire a court injunction from local authorities. They also interfaced with the Ministry of Tourism via the map they created, demonstrating their value to the tourism industry. The Ministry of Tourism sent a team to evaluate the Market and tried to advocate to the Ministry of Land on behalf of the Market. In the end, the Ministry of Land went through with evicting the community. The Craft Market decided to do a second map to record the progress of clearing and to document the lack of support during the eviction, demonstrating how the eviction displaced the previously flourishing market to a side street. Using this map, the Craft Market is still in the process of advocating their case. View the map here: http:// mapknitter.org/map/view/juakali.

7 Gowanus Low Altitude Mapping (GLAM) our stories Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, New York Public Labbers are working with the Gowanus Canal Conservancy and Proteus Gowanus to conduct environmental investigations in the Gowanus Canal Superfund Site and broader watershed using aerial imagery. There are three distinct goals within GLAM: 1) researching biodiversity to better manage the urban ecosystem; 2) conducting eco-detective work to improve the government’s Superfund clean-up plan; and 3) advocating for watershed health by identifying upland sites that can be used for storm water absorption to reduce downhill sewage overflow events into the canal. GLAM has succeeded in improving the Superfund clean-up plan: diligent investigation led to the discovery of an unknown freshwater inflow in the Gowanus First Street Basin, and their presentation to the EPA’s Community Advisory Group was so effective that Superfund restoration expanded an additional city block. Through vigilant aerial surveying, despite ice and blazing sun, the subsequent analysis identified four active pipes and inflows that the EPA’s survey missed which is leading to other improvements in the clean-up plan. Other independent research projects of the Gowanus have uncovered what appear to be historical Revolutionary War burial grounds which have since led to partnerships with the Brooklyn Preservation Council and the local Veterans Affairs chapter, as well as support from the Governor of Maryland and coverage in the NY Times.

Monitoring an Open Landfill Saugus, Massachusetts Public Lab worked on a multi-year project with Basurama.org to monitor the growth and treatment of ash at the open landfill bordering the Saugus waste incinerator, adjacent to both wetland and residential areas, with annual DIY multispectral kite photography. The project engaged residents of the Boston area in investigating local waste cycles as well as the toxicity and exposure issues related to the waste incineration process and the storage of ash. Public Lab organizer, Pat Coyle has recently worked on a 3D (Surface From Motion) reconstruction of the site using images collected from the kite photographers. Project lead Pablo Rey Mazón hopes to work towards connecting the 3D map with volume estimates that other Public Labbers are researching to compare with official data. Rey Mazón plans to replicate the project with a similar trash incinerator in Bilbao, Spain.

Monitoring Invasive Aquatic Plant Removal Amherst, Massachusetts UMass Amherst, the US Fish & Wildlife Service, and Pioneer Valley Open Science monitored invasive aquatic plant removal using DIY multispectral aerial photography and balloon mapping kits. Aerial photographs of the lake effectively reveal the invasive water chestnut, as it is distinguishable by both color and texture at low altitudes. The goal is to use normal and color infrared images to locate patches of water chestnut as part of the much needed yearly monitoring to prevent the plant from spreading. Through continued technical development, Pioneer Valley Open Science is interested in automating classification of NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) images as a “one-click” solution for citizens monitoring invasive species in their waterways.

8 our stories

Documenting & Quantifying Soil Treatments iFarm in Pioneer Valley, New Hampshire Public Lab is part of a multi-year project to document and quantify cover crop soil treatment and silvopasture trials using infrared photography and aerial mapping. This is part of a broader effort to develop data-driven analysis tools to support small-scale organic farmers, and is being pursued in partnership with Green Start, Farm Hack, Pioneer Valley Open Science, and the sustainable agriculture program at the University of New Hampshire. Through this work, collaborating farmers have gained a better understanding of the health of their crops as well as a greater capacity for regularly comparing crop health at low cost. In addition to providing a compelling case study and proof of concept for the tools that are being developed through this work, the research has produced new insights and initiated new projects— such as more affordable and robust single-camera multispectral imaging that forms the basis of the Public Lab Infragram program.

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant Mapping Plymouth, Massachusetts Using images collected via kite mapping, organizers are challenging the lack of a permit for new construction of a waste storage facility at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. To date, two aerial imaging trips led by Cape Cod Bay Watch have given local residents the ability to keep themselves informed about the progress of the construction, in addition to generating images and a compelling story which has resulted in press coverage (WBUR Boston-NPR) of their monitoring and advocacy efforts.

Documenting Code Violations by Metal Recycling Center East Providence, Rhode Island Local residents and Northeastern University faculty used kite mapping kits to monitor a metal recycling center for code violations and contamination. This is a long, complex investigation involving legal battles. A neighborhood in East Providence, RI adjacent to a large construction waste-grinding business has noted toxic dust from the plant filtering into homes and yards. Many in the neighborhood suffer from respiratory and other health problems thought to be associated with the dust. Neighborhood activists managed (with Toxic Action Center’s help) to have the waste grinding stopped. However, the same business owner re-opened the plant as a scrap metal processing operation, but with a permit that allows for limited operations for under fifteen tons of wood products. After the waste grinding stopped, balloon mapping was organized in March 2013 to document whether there was unpermitted processing of materials other than wood. Advocates have added detailed annotations to their aerial imagery to communicate the issues on the ground and attempt to convince authorities to take action to determine whether the plant is in fact processing materials beyond wood.

9 Open Water

Don Blair Amherst, MA

10 his last year approaches to science; groups have vital contributions to make of Public Lab it’s been wonderful to the problems we face. What does work has been for me to instead be a meaningful grassroots monitoring incredibleT for me. In able to participate in effort look like? When data analysis is particular, it’s been a community that is very complex and a lot of background really great to see the conceived knowledge is reaction people have and How do we transition required for to what Public Lab structured from a DIY (do it interpretation, is doing, and what it in such a how do we best represents. I’ve now way that yourself) approach, to support a truly traveled to Rwanda it tends to a DIT (do it together) participatory and Colombia on ‘do science process that behalf of Public Lab, right.’ (I’ll approach that brings involves and whenever I tell still likely everyone to the table everyone? How people about the way dabble in do we transition that Public Lab brings critique, without reinforcing from a DIY an ‘open source, of course.) unhelpful hierarchies (do it yourself) grassroots ethos’ approach, to environmental All that in authority? to a DIT (do monitoring and said, I feel it together) environmental that the Public Lab approach that brings everyone to the table justice, the folks work I’m currently without reinforcing unhelpful hierarchies I’m talking to always seem to get the focusing on—the Open Water Project in authority? These are the big question for idea immediately and become really — is going to require finding useful ways me going into 2014. enthusiastic. So, for me, it’s been a year of reconciling the academic and non- of being a bit of a Public Lab evangelist, academic worlds. In this project, we’re Plans to address these questions have and revelling in the fact that Public Lab finding that there’s a lot of useful expertise already started to come into place. has come up with this great approach, and among hydrologists that we want to be able I’m particularly excited about the one that generates such to leverage when making conversations that Public Lab is now positive responses. After years spent in DIY water quality having with the EPA about water quality academic research, devices and interpreting monitoring. In those discussions, we’ve In 2013, I’ve found the data that comes out suggested the idea of working together myself shifting I’ve come to feel of them; the challenge is to develop ‘bridging data protocols’ that away from trying to that the Public going to be finding ways allow data collected by citizens to be incorporate Public Lab of bridging the various considered ‘valid’ for various uses by the into academic science Lab community is communities that need EPA—and the EPA seems to have been and instead, I’ve come now better able to to work together to thinking along similar lines. In the future, to view Public Lab as address water issues. I’d love to see Public Lab form initiatives the place where ‘truly model how scientific like this with agencies and institutions good science gets done.’ research should be Local residents in many areas, and in many places; to see After years spent in worried about their such conversations happening already, academic research, I’ve conducted than the tap water have a and proceeding at such a rapid pace, is come to feel that the typical academic very different set of one of many reasons I’m convinced that Public Lab community concerns than typical 2014 is going to be a really inspiring and is now better able to community; hydrogeologists do; both productive year for grassroots science. model how scientific research should be conducted than the typical academic community. Many of the criticisms and innovations that I’d begun to formulate within academia already seem to be addressed by the way the Public Lab community conducts, and shares, its research. Maybe even more importantly: I think the values and the interests one finds now in the Public Lab community are more closely and authentically aligned with the most important scientific and technological questions we face as a society today than are those of most of the academics I’ve known. And I don’t blame individual academics for this— the typical academic system forces them into an odd set of incentives. Until recently, I thought my role was going to be to rail against scientific institutions that seem to be locked into relatively unproductive or out-of-touch Public Lab organizers at iFarm in Lee, New Hampshire.

11 Transformative Experiences in the DIY realm

Cindy Regalado London

12 his last year has been a wonderful journey filled with enriching experiences, realizations and above all,T inspiring people. I am researching ‘Publicly Initiated Scientific Research’ for my PhD research at University College London within the Extreme Citizen Science research group with the continued support of Professor Muki Haklay. The most insightful moments of 2013 were the five workshops in London and Amsterdam with Shannon, Mathew, and Jeff from Public Lab. In London, what stood out the most for me in the kite-mapping, kite-making and DIY spectrometry workshops was that many of those who took part in the workshops expressed ‘experiencing the power of DIY’ very strongly. Many of them shared a realization of (self)trust in their abilities to question and to do; that if they ever needed to, they could take issues into their own hands.

The one-week Eclectis programme in Amsterdam with the wonderful junior school kids at Hyperion Lyceum Image Credit: Jeff Warren. Near Infrared Boxheads made by students from Hyperion Lyceum made me reflect further on inciting (self) using their newly hacked Near Infrared cameras as a way to share their learning/experiences trust—especially a belief in that what with others. they do actually matters, that the fruits of their efforts will actually materialize into positive change. The grand finale of the civic science have infiltrated investigative us, “those who are taught, rather than Eclectis programme consolidated this: journalism and that two new kite mappers stimulated to search for themselves, would, after four days of kite-mapping, spectral are knitting stories in Naples and in in turn, be prone to ‘teaching’ others in and near-infrared explorations, what was Brussels. their charge rather than stimulate self- to become of all that experience? The kids inquiry in others” (2008). worked together in a matter of hours to In the past year we have run two series of devise extremely creative and interactive playshops with a new and unconventional The end result has been powerful displays to share their knowledge and approach: ‘Exploring borders through art’ playacting of how we relate to the world. experience of civic science and DIY with and ‘Explorer of the world’. The approach The key in many of the playshops was to the 500 Amsterdam dwellers visiting their here is to be ‘open to outcome’ (much like practice a lack of expectation, appreciating school. in Amsterdam with the Hyperion Lyceum things for what they are, and getting back kids). The ‘open to outcome’ approach has to a child-like state of playfulness and I also had the opportunity to meet enabled us to engage with the complexity wonderment. Over the past two years I Eymund Diegel at the Gowanus Canal and context of issues by using a mix of have learned that when engaging with DIY in Brooklyn, New York and get the tools from improvisational theatre and technologies and engaging in DIY research scoop on both the history of the canal’s video animation to civic science and (auto) there is a very powerful element at work— environmental condition and the efforts to ethnography. In the playshops I distinguish there is genuine joy when learning that you address the situation restoration with the training from inciting/stimulating and are able to do, sense, or create something Gowanus Canal Conservancy. The story between participant and researcher/ you did not think you could, especially of the Gowanus Low Altitude Mapping explorer/tryer, where the researcher/ when you have made the invisible visible project, Eymund’s efforts, and the stories explorer engages in a process of self inquiry with your own hands. of the community surrounding the canal to discover for themselves how they would are so rich we could write a book (and we pursue their own investigative exploration. should!) I remember Eymund’s humble and insightful words, ‘These efforts provide Through storytelling and improvisational Rahman, A. (2008). Some trends in the the granularity and nuance that renders theatre we incite inquiry or “questioning praxis of participatory action research. In them inclusive of local issues, knowledges, the state of things” and we enter a world The SAGE handbook of action research: politics, and sustainable solutions.’ whose environment is conducive to owning participative inquiry and practice (p 49–62). our own knowledge and understanding Sage Publications. The DIY aerial mapping workshops in and where the fruits of our efforts are Perugia, Italy- part of the International materialized. This experience is often Journalism Festival- narrowed in on what contagious through excitement, and many Hagit Keysar called us reflect on “where do researchers share it with and incite it in the maps go?” How will stories be told and others. As Participant Action Research by whom? We know for sure that ideas of (PAR) practitioner Rahman reminds

Image Credit: Waag Society. Students from Hyperion Lyceum catching the kite camera rig. 13 Getting Action on Gulf Restoration

Scott Eustis New Orleans

geo-rectified map tells a completely different story about the urban environment, what it is and what it enables inhabitants to do. It reminds us that the geography is equally and essentially shared by its inhabitants, whoever they are citizens or noncitizens, and having the ability to share information and knowledge about it might reveal pathways for a more democratic and inclusive urban, and legal, environments.

In the case of the struggle lead by the Jewish Ein Karem’s residents’ for preserving the village, one might ask about the unheard voices of the Palestinian generations of refugees and internally displaced, which live among us and used to

14 his was an exciting year to be into the river, photographic evidence method for determining the characteristics working with Public Lab on displayed in public and in the media is of the tar. the Gulf Coast. Our corner of essential for keeping them honest. Public theT United States is always ripe with Lab spectrometry work has the potential to Although the view is not always possibilities for observing pollution. do just that. uplifting, it’s been a downright pleasure Last June, I had a breakthrough when to organize Public Lab’s aerial survey Gulf Restoration Network was able to After some time, I developed a process work in Barataria Bay. We’ve been able to convince the Louisiana Department of for diluting tar balls into something I call turn a small grant into a venue for a score Environmental Quality, based on kite “Grand Isle coffee” that was translucent of advocates and local residents to do a photography, that a enough to run a green bit of real time co-education about the petroleum coke terminal Photographic laser test. It was so rapid changes in our landscape. The kite in lower Plaquemines evidence displayed gratifying when the and balloon photographs we’ve taken of needed to be addressed. green light turned the disintegrating rim of Barataria Bay is Petroleum coke is a by- in public and in the orange, signifying the an important part of documenting BP’s product of oil refining media is essential presence of tar and aggravation of the legacy of industrial that is burned for fuel naphthalenes. I’m ready damages to our great North American in countries where for keeping them for the next phase of delta. With these images, we can broaden air standards are not honest. Public Lab the test, to analyze the and deepen the story of our home, the as high as the United wavelengths of light great estuary that keeps us sheltered from States. The terminal spectrometry work with the Public Lab coastal storms and the great engine of life has been dumping into has the potential to Spectrometer. Once we that keeps on producing so many birds, the Mississippi River know exactly what kinds fish, and mammals that are our regular for decades, and Gulf keep BP honest. of wavelengths signify Restoration Network oil, I’d like to distribute (GRN) had been reporting on the waste this test, with the oil testing kit, to GRN for a year, but the detail of the kite photo is members across the coast. Four years after what it took to convince our enforcement the rig explosion and deepwater gusher, agency to act. along with our regular storms, we have chemical weather—bits of tar mats that Restoration of the Mississippi River get pulled off and rolled up on Gulf Coast into its delta is considered a core element beaches. of the Louisiana coastal Master Plan. We need companies to stop dumping refinery I hope to continue in the spirit of Rip by-products into the river: otherwise, our Kirby’s work for Surfrider. Kirby used wetland restoration projects will be littered a more expensive light kit to detect the with the stuff. presence of oil and Corexit (oil dispersant) that otherwise goes unseen. Four years out, As United Bulk Terminal continues to we need to shine a light on this less visible deny that their petroleum coke is going pollution, and create a low cost screening Tar from the surf on Elmer’s Isle, LA.

Image Credits Scott Eustis. Barataria Bay and Bayou. 15 Open Community

Hagit Keysar Jerusalem

geo-rectified map tells a completely different story about the urban environment, what it is and what it enables inhabitants to do. It reminds us that the geography is equally and essentially shared by its inhabitants, whoever they are citizens or noncitizens, and having the ability to share information and knowledge about it might reveal pathways for a more democratic and inclusive urban, and legal, environments.

In the case of the struggle lead by the Jewish Ein Karem’s residents’ for preserving the village, one might ask about the unheard voices of the Palestinian generations of refugees and internally displaced, which live among us and used to

16 can certainly say without a doubt that would allow connections between to this big question, but I find in my that the first collaboration I did different mapping projects, issues, places work that, in contrast to the scientific with Public Lab was a life changing and people. and objective uses and meanings that Iexperience. I’ve been taking part in Public are attached to aerial photography, when Lab’s community by working with the Apart from the fieldwork I am conducting residents I meet are introduced to the aerial mapping tools since 2011. It began in Jerusalem, a significant part of my possibility of creating aerial images by by using the balloon and kite mapping academic work is concerned with themselves, their eyes suddenly shine and toolkit as part of an educational project I theorizing and contributing to a body of their imagination is stimulated. Imagining initiated in Mamuta Art in Media Center research in STS (science , technology and is one important step for rethinking in Jerusalem to visualize and map spatial society) and political theory that focuses citizenship. The question I work with is, experiences of Israeli and Palestinian on the role of photography and visual how do we make this imagination thrive? youth growing in the city. I very soon I technologies in shaping space and power realized, though, that there’s much more relations. I have presented my work with I don’t have any romantic notions on to discover, that Public Lab is not simply Public Lab’s tools a few times in Israeli an ideal Open Community or the way a collection of cool tools and some really Universities and research institutes as technology is going to liberate us from brilliant people but also an exciting new well as in the University of Lisbon’s domination. I don’t think we can get rid form of community. Fab-Lab (ISCTE-IUL) and the Citizen of power structures altogether. I have CyberScience Summit in University learned through practice with Public Lab Currently I am a PhD candidate at College London. I participated in the that it’s an ongoing process. The techno- Ben Gurion University’s Politics and 2013 Info-Activism Camp organized by scientific activity together with urban and Government Department in Israel. Tactical Technology Collective, conducted environmental issues we are concerned My research interests grew out of my workshops using the aerial photography with are the structure for building that experiences with Public Lab’s aerial toolkit, and took part in TTC’s film social and political infrastructure that mapping tools and methods. I develop and Exposing the Invisible, which featured might yield change. As an Israeli activist investigate the use of DIY aerial mapping Public Lab’s activity and tools. and researcher, I find the wider community tools in Jerusalem as an instructive of practitioners extremely important. It case study for probing the political and My engagement and possible strengthens and supports what I do, not spatial implications of participatory contribution to Public Lab’s approach to only by giving feedback and assistance, but mapping technologies in contested urban civic science is leaning more towards its by connecting my work to a wider political environments. social and political aspects rather than its and social context, rendering it part of a scientific ones. Working with residents global movement for environmental and This past year, I’ve been spending most and issues in Jerusalem eliminates some of civil rights. of my time establishing collaborations the particularities of doing civic science with communities and institutions, giving in the context of workshops and lectures on community political conflict, and aerial photography and civic science in a situation of civil within and outside the academy. In 2013 I inequality. Public conducted six aerial mapping workshops Lab’s definition of in Jerusalem; three of them have led to civic science places the development of longer term projects scientific inquiry within academy-community partnerships, at the heart of civic which are now case studies in my research. life by bypassing These collaborations include two separate technical barriers projects with Arab/Palestinian residents which necessitate the (who are not full and equal citizens in ‘professionalization’ Israel) and Jewish/Israeli residents in of science. I would Jerusalem who find DIY mapping to be add that civic science inspirational and useful in their struggles, places the category of concerns and advocacy work. People in the civil at the heart Jerusalem try DIY mapmaking tools for of the investigation. a range of reasons— issues of inequality The question for me and ethnocentric discrimination in urban is whether our civic planning processes, increasing community science practices awareness; participation in planning can also challenge procedures; to visualizing current and our understanding historical spatial narratives in the city. of the concept and practice of During the next year I will be writing citizenship, and open my dissertation based on my experiences new paths for civil mapping with residents in Jerusalem. I also life—relations and intend to continue investigating methods interactions among for visualizing stories and opening people— beyond the questions, conflicts, and disputes on our boundaries of the maps. Hopefully, I will soon be able to state and national present all the geo-spatial data collected by identity. I certainly residents and present it in a map platform don’t have answers

Left Image Credit: Dorit Naaman. Above Image Credit: Lea Mauas 17 Public Lab Kit Initiatives

Total kit sales in 2013 were $110,147

In order to make scientific tools accessible, Public Lab offers free online plans for all kits and sells them through various retailers and directly through our online store. Since some of the materials are only available in bulk, selling the kits has made DIY tools more affordable. All proceeds from these kits support the work of the Public Lab nonprofit.

DIY Spectrometry Kits launched fall 2012

23,217 spectra uploaded to date via Spectral Workbench 3,238 contributors Kits Distributed in 2013

A spectrometer may not sound like what you wanted for your birthday, but it’s a ubiquitous tool for scientists to identify unknown materials, like oil spill residue or coal tar in urban waterways. A spectrometer is essentially a tool to measure the colors absorbed by a material. But they cost thousands of dollars and are hard to use—so the Public Lab community designed one. 250 778 Desktop Spectrometry This open hardware kit costs only $40 but has a range of more Spectrometers Bundles than 400-900 nanometers, and a resolution as high as 3 nm. This one can be constructed from a piece of a DVD-R, black paper, a conduit box, and an HD USB webcam.

Public Lab created open source software (SpectralWorkbench. org) to collect, analyze, compare, and share calibrated spectral data. There’s even an experimental version which converts a cellphone into a spectrometer! Public Lab community members are working to differentiate oils, identify dyes in laundry detergent, test plant grow lamps, and analyze different consumable liquids. 495 24 Smartphone Foldable Mini- Spectrometer * Became available in November 2013. Spectrometers Kits*

18 Balloon & Kite Mapping Kits launched 2011

Over 500 contributors have completed over 1,113 maps, with an average resolution of 31 cm per pixel. Kits Distributed in 2013

These kits provide a low cost, easy to use, safe method for making maps and aerial images. Over the last two years, Public Lab has built a global community of mappers who are engaged in discussion around the development and use of this tool and its use as a “community satellite” for localized mapping.

40 Chloroprene Normally, aerial maps are made from satellites or airplanes. The 180 Balloon Mapping balloon and kite ground-based approach introduces an on-demand Mapping Kits Balloons capability where events or environmental conditions are mapped at a specific moment in time.

21 All-in-One Balloon and Kite 16 Kite Mapping Packs Mapping Packs

Infrared Photography Kits launched summer 2013 72 infrared images uploaded. Kits Distributed in 2013 Infragram is a simple, affordable near-infrared camera produced by the Public Lab community in a series of collaborative experiments over the last few years, originally developed to monitor wetlands damages in the wake of the BP oil spill. Its simplicity of use and easy- to-modify open-source hardware & software makes it a useful tool for home gardeners, hikers, makers, farmers, amateur scientists, teachers, artists, and anyone curious about the secret lives of plants. 231 Infragram 22 Infragram Filter Kits Webcams Infrared images can be generated using many inexpensive digital cameras and webcams by removing the infrared block filter and adding new filters. An “infrablue” image is one in which the channels of mostly infrared (and some visible light) are captured in one color channel, and mostly visible light (with some infrared) are captured in another. The Public Lab community has experimented with using both red and blue filters and custom white balances to differentiate these two spectral bands as much as possible.

19 2013 Workshops & Events

15  Number of participants indicated by blue arrow. Blue text indicates hyper links. April January 10  Southeast Portland Permaculture Convergence (Portland, OR) Pole photography of urban gardens. 15  WinterCamp (Cocodrie and New Orleans, LA) Conceptualizing an oil spill toolkit. Kite Club Pontchartrain Kick-off (New Orleans, LA) Review of kite and camera rig construction principles and kite flying 6  Balloon Mapping at Fort Mason Green (San Francisco, CA) at Lake Pontchartrain. Flew modified cameras to produce a multispectral NRG map. 8  Toolshed Raising: MBTA mapping (Somerville MA) February Successful kite mapping of future Union Square MBTA site.

40  Mapmaking for Geologists (Asheville, NC) May Learning about balloon mapping, MapKnitter, ground control points, and image classification. 7  Kite mapping at Fort Mason Green (San Francisco, CA) Advanced field techniques in kite mapping. Toolshed Raising (Somerville MA) Sessions on spectrometry, thermal fishing bob, and the Riffle. 22  iFarm IRcam field day (Lee, NH) Kite flying and aerial photography in a hands-on workshop on a small March organic farm, aerial near-infrared photography of crops, and a session on converting conventional cameras into infrared camera. 9  Toxics Action Center Environmental Action Conference (Boston, MA) Hands-on workshop with aerial mapping and photography.

Swamp Stomp at Nichols University (Thibodaux, LA) Aerial mapping with elementary school children.

Gulf Gathering Kite Monitoring Training (Camp Beckwith, AL) Review of kite construction principles and mapping the area.

25  August Pine Ridge RC School, Belize Mapping Session Kite aerial mapping session and demonstration of Mapknitter with 5th graders and school staff.

20  Muffles Junior College, Belize Mapping Sessions (Pine Ridge, Belize) Two kite aerial mapping sessions and Mapknitter demo for Junior College environmental club and faculty advisor.

20 June

Beit Safafa Aerial mapping workshop (Jerusalem, Israel)

Info Activism Camp (Italy) Mapping workshop on building a DIY rig for aerial mapping.

12  NYU’s ITP Citizen Science Workshop (New York, NY) Case studies on how aerial mapping is used for environmental research.

20  Open Source Bridge (Portland, OR) Aerial mapping workshop utilizing MapKnitter.

20  UMass Amherst STEM Digital conference (Amherst, MA) Workshop on Infragram for high school science teachers from 7  MapKnitter Club (New Orleans, LA) around the country on near infrared imagery. Public Lab Gulf Coast and LSU CSS discussed how to implement a “Cartography Collective” and stitch maps of the wetland triangle. July 25  Cartography Primer No. 1 at Phats Valley Residency (Truro, 12  Distance spectroscopy for refinery flares with NASA MA) Aerial mapping workshop of Pamet Marsh railroad breach and (Chalmette, LA) Kick-off event for collaboration with NASA oyster restoration in Cape Cod. DEVELOP for work on a long distance spectrometer designed to look at emissions from oil and natural gas production and processing 4  Aerial Monitoring of Wetlands at Bayou St John sites, particularly refinery flaring. (New Orleans, LA) In support of Dredgefest, LA, LSU CSS helped with mapping and MapKnitter stitching to produce a map of the area. 15  WATERCHESTNUTS (Amherst, MA) Identifying and assessing invasive species on Lake Warner, MA using San Diego EWB Regional Workshop 2013 (San Diego, CA) aerial imagery Simple aerial photography session for map-of-the day techniques for Engineers Without Borders teams. August November 5  Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire (Providence, RI) Public Lab, PVOS, and HackerFarm01007 presented DIY spectroscopy Toolshed Raising at Parts & Crafts (Somerville, MA) and DIY helium blimp construction for aerial imagery at a booth to Local Boston area gathering focused on oil testing tool development. Faire participants. MediaLab Prado (Madrid, Spain) 30  Maker Talks at the NYC Makery (Brooklyn, NY) Aerial mapping workshop and foldable spectrometry design. Case studies of Public Lab toolkits, citizen scientist experiments, and Infragram presentation. 20  Infragram Presentation at ICT4Ag Conference (Kigali, Rwanda) Near-infrared plant health imagery presentation at a September conference focused on new technologies in support of rural agriculture in Africa. LEAFFEST (Salisbury, Vermont) An open gathering of the Public Lab community to work on 4  Aerial Monitoring of Cypress Restoration (Venice, LA) environmental tools and share ideas about environmental science March photos and map created in support of Restore the Earth and activism. in South Pass and Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries restoration efforts. 30  Citizens without Borders and UCL ExCiteS (London, UK) Spectrometry and aerial mapping workshops. December

October 6  Bayou Bienvenue Cypress Restoration monitoring (New Orleans, LA) Aerial mapping workshop with LSU CSS. 50  Annual Barnraising (New Orleans, LA) In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a 4  Oil and Gas Canal Restoration Monitoring (New Orleans, LA) structure such as a barn, Public Lab gathered in-person to develop Discussion of low-cost aerial monitoring of plants and animals tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test attuned to National Park Service needs, marsh aerial photo and map the tools, and develop new research directions and projects. The and documentation and support of the NPS’s marsh restoration, with theme for the 2013 Barnraising was ‘education.’ NPS staff.

4  Aerial Photography of Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Planting 9  Gulf Restoration Network Kite Club (Weeks Bay, AL) (New Orleans, LA) Demonstration of balloon mapping techniques Introduction to kites and monitoring, and documentation and support of the many neighborhood and environmental groups’ effort to re-vegetate the wetland triangle. 20  Junction Avenue School READY field day (Livermore, CA) Simple aerial photomapping field trip for middle schoolers.

21 Thanks to our 2013 friends, partners and collaborators!

Partners in the US in purple. waste, and the collaborative process of investing to improve their operations to design and construction. reduce pollution. Barataria Bay Mapping Project (Barataria Bay, LA) Big thanks to the boat captains Cape Cod Bay Watch (Plymouth, MA) Gowanus Canal Conservancy that donated their time and resources Our mission is to protect and restore (Brooklyn, NY) The Gowanus Canal including: Richie Blink, Captain Jody Cape Cod Bay and all its resources. We Conservancy is a community-based Donewar, Zach Mouton, and David accomplish our mission by using science, non-profit organization that serves as the Bourgeois of Big Dog Fishing Charters. education, advocacy, and the law. environmental steward for the Gowanus Canal Watershed. Belize Open Source - Sustainable Cypress Hills Local Development Gowanus Dredgers (Brooklyn, NY) Development (Belize) BOSSD is a non- Corporation (Brooklyn, NY) With The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club profit that promotes environmentally community residents leading the way, the is a volunteer organization dedicated and socially sustainable development. It mission of CHLDC is to build a strong, to providing waterfront access and is based on an open source approach to sustainable Cypress Hills and East New education related to the estuary and plan, implement, and participate in a land- York, where youth and adults achieve bordering shoreline neighborhoods. based learning and community outreach educational and economic success, secure center and working farm on a 40 acre healthy and affordable housing, and GreenStart (NH) Our mission is to foster property in northwestern Belize, near the develop leadership skills to transform a resilient energy and food system for village of August Pine Ridge. their lives and community. New Hampshire by providing technical education and practical agricultural Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer Dredge Research Collaborative (United examples. Sheva) Ben-Gurion University of the States) Investigates human sediment Negev aspires to be among the best inter- handling practices, through publications, Gulf Monitoring Consortium (Gulf Coast, disciplinary research universities in the events, and various other projects. US) The Gulf Monitoring Consortium world, a leader in scientific innovation, is a rapid response alliance that collects, inter-disciplinary research and applied Engineers Without Borders-USA A non- analyzes and publishes images and other sciences – all of which impact daily life. profit that supports community-driven information acquired from space, from development programs worldwide the air, and from the surface in order to Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design through the design and implementation investigate and expose pollution incidents (Jerusalem, Israel) Established in 1906 by of sustainable engineering projects while that occur in the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf artist Boris Schatz, Bezalel has evolved fostering responsible leadership. Coast region. into one of the world’s most prestigious art schools. It takes pride in its numerous Farm Hack aims to nurture the Gulf Restoration Network (Gulf Coast, generations of graduates – the spearhead development, documentation, and US) The Gulf Restoration Network is of Israeli artists, designers, and architects manufacture of farm tools for resilient committed to uniting and empowering in Israel and around the globe. agriculture. people to protect and restore the natural resources of the Gulf Region. Basurama (Spain) is a non-profit Global Community Monitor (California) organization that raises awareness of Together, with the power of the Bucket, HackerFarm01007 (Belchertown, MA) waste production and studies waste as a we have won – cleaner air, new laws HackerFarm01007 is an open environment resource through a series of workshops, and regulations, families relocated to for independent and collaborative work public art interventions and multimedia safer neighborhoods, children moved in a variety of media. It is a place for projects where participant/users take to a healthier school, the closure of a teaching, learning, exploration, and active part in the search and selection notorious toxic facility, and companies creative expression. There are facilities

22 for woodworking, welding, machining, and handle the challenges that face our society electronics assembly, and one acre of open and future generations. land for small-scale agricultural projects. Ironbound Community Corporation Northeastern University Social Science and (Newark, NJ) ICC’s mission is to engage and empower individuals, families and Environmental Health Research Institute groups in realizing their aspirations and, (Boston, MA) The mission of the Social together, work to create a just, vibrant and Science Environmental Health Research sustainable community. Institute is to conduct social science- oriented research, teaching, community Jones River Watershed Association engagement, and policy work in the area of (Kingston, MA) The Jones River environmental health. Watershed Association is a non-profit, member-based environmental organization established to protect, enhance and restore NYU CUSP (Brooklyn, NY) The Center the quality of the natural resources in for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) University College of London ExCiteS Southeastern Massachusetts, in particular is a unique public-private research center (London, UK) ExCiteS brings together the Jones River and Cape Cod Bay, for that uses New York City as its laboratory scholars from diverse fields to develop present and future generations, while and classroom to help cities around the and contribute to the guiding theories, cultivating effective stewardship of our world become more productive, livable, tools and methodologies that will enable regional environment through science, equitable, and resilient. any community to start a Citizen Science advocacy, and education. project to deal with issues that concern Parts and Crafts (Somerville, MA) Parts them. LUMCON (Cocodrie, LA) The Louisiana and Crafts runs hands-on creative arts, Universities Marine Consortium science, and engineering programs for kids UMass Amherst Department of (LUMCON) was formed in 1979 to increase and adults to help people learn and do and society’s awareness of the environmental, make things. Environmental Conservation and UMass economic, and cultural value of Louisiana’s Open Source Laboratory (Amherst, coastal and marine environments by Proteus Gowanus (Brooklyn, NY) Proteus MA) The Department’s focus extends conducting research and education Gowanus is an interdisciplinary gallery from the ecology and management of programs directly relevant to Louisiana’s and reading room. Named for the Greek fish and wildlife populations, trees, needs in marine science and coastal sea god of change and the adjacent forests, watersheds and landscapes to resources and serving as a facility for all Gowanus Canal, Proteus Gowanus acts the physical, social, and policy aspects Louisiana schools with interest in marine as an interpreter of culture and place, of conservation involving urban forests, research and education. deepening the community’s sense of human habitat, and sustainable building. context and connection. Proteus Gowanus, The study of biology, sociology, policy, Madaa Silwan - Creative Center (Silwan, where Board member Eymund Diegel engineering, building science, and East Jerusalem) The mission of Madaa serves as Archivist, hosts a physical archive resource management encompasses rural, Silwan is to build a strong, knowledgeable of Public Lab Gowanus data. suburban, and urban environments. The and involved Arab Palestinian community unifying focus of all these activities is on in Silwan, and to provide educational and The Public Knowledge Workshop (Israel) the stewardship of healthy and sustainable recreational activities and courses mainly The Public Knowledge Workshop is a ecosystems that provide important human for children, teenagers, and women. non-profit organization whose mission is to and community benefits. release public information and make it easy Mamuta Art and Media Center (Jerusalem, for the public to meaningfully engage with Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwan, Israel) The goal of the Mamuta Project the data. East Jerusalem) An Information Center, is to advance art projects and to create a opened by the residents of Wadi Hilwah framework for artists from different media, Tidmarsh Farms (Manomet, MA) Tidmarsh that struggle against the Israeli efforts to as well as curators, architects, designers, Farms, a 577 acre private farm situated Judaize the village of Silwan and the Wadi and researchers, who wish to create in in historic Plymouth, Massachusetts, Hilwah neighborhood. The Information the spirit of cooperation, dialogue, and combines a large wetlands restoration and center focuses on the use of media, technological innovation. conservation project with an operating collecting information for advocacy and cranberry bog, a stewardship and effectively communicating information MIT Center for Civic Media (Cambridge, technology program, and limited low- that concerns the Palestinian people of MA) The MIT Center for Civic Media impact residential living. Silwan, East Jerusalem. works hand in hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, Toxics Action Center (Northeast US) Yovalim Community Council (Jerusalem, design, deploy, and assess civic media tools Toxics Action Center’s mission is to work Israel) Yovalim is one out of 28 local and practices. side-by-side with communities, providing community councils in Jerusalem which you with the skills and resources needed comprises of six neighborhoods in the NASA DEVELOP (Stennis Space Center, to prevent or clean up pollution at the local southwestern parts of the city. Its main MS) DEVELOP bridges the gap between level. roles are to be a bridge the residents and NASA Earth Science and society, building the municipality and develop an active, capacity in both participants and partner participating and engaged community. organizations to better prepare them to

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Since 2010 PublicLab.org has had:

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24 A Sampling of the PublicLab.org Topical Discussion Lists

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plots-spectrometry Spectrometry and spectral analysis discussions (since 2012).

plots-infrared Near-infrared imaging and vegetation monitoring discussions (since 2013, now >125 members).

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plots-airquality Discussion list for air quality related topics. This started for a project with the EPA and is now open to all (since summer 2012, currently ~50 members).

11 Active Local plots-potentiostat Measuring heavy metal concentrations in water and food. Lists in 2013 plotz-3d Everything about 3D printers, especially the Replicator 1s that were donated to Public Lab by MakerBot Industries. NYC (179) Boston (153) plots-dev Group for people interested in conceptualizing and testing new web infrastructure for Public Lab, also the location for developers NorCal (95) discussing detailed code-related topics (started late October 2013, ~28 members). Gulfcoast (54) Amsterdam (44) plots-education Started at the 2013 education-themed barnraising, this group is for teachers of all varieties. South East (38) Writing Working Group Started at the 2013 barnraising, this Providence (38) group is for folks interested in writing articles, conducting interviews, Baltimore (15) assembling case studies, and more!

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Publications Articles

Public Lab wrote and contributed to three articles during 2013: Public Lab staff and organizers contributed articles to the following sites: PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog, UCL ExCiteS, “Institutions for Civic Technoscience: How Critical Making is TechPresident and LIMN. Transforming Environmental Research,” Wylie, S., Jalbert, K., Dosemagen, S., Ratto, M. Paper for Special Forum Issue on Critical Making, The Information Society 30(2). March 2014. Presentations Enabling Cities v2: Enhancing creative community resilience: Intro to Citizen Science and Mapping section, “Democratizing The Public Lab community presented work across the globe Environmental Research”, November 2013 during 2013, including at the following venues:

“Civic, Citizen and Grassroots Science: Towards a Citizen Science Hackfest at MediaLab Prado; Society of transformative scientific research model”. Dosemagen, S., M. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry annual conference; In Lippincott, L. Barry, D. Blair, J. Breen. 2013. Eds. Offenhuber, Kigali, Rwanda at ICT4Ag; Washington, DC at the Health and Dietmar, and Katja Schechtner. Accountability Technologies - Environmental Funders Network conference; World Maker Faire Tools for Asking Hard Questions. Vienna, New York: Springer. Main stage in NYC; In Buenos Aires, Argentina at Hacks/Hackers BA; At New York City Makery Pop-up Maker Space; In Paris, Public Lab was featured as a case study in a Columbia University France at NightScience; In Kansas City at MakerFaire KC; San Tow Center for Journalism report: Francisco at State of the Map US; Columbia Journalism School Tow Center Sensor Journalism Conference; In Davis, California at Columbia University Tow Center for Journalism report, Tedx; At GEO NYC; Transparency Camp in Washington DC; and “Sensors and Journalism.” Public Lab featured as one of at FedGeo Day. the case studies and Public Lab Organizer, Lela Prashad contributed a chapter titled, “People within Pixels.”

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