Shannon Dosemagen (Open Environmental Data Project) and Luis Felipe Murillo (University of Notre Dame) Environmental monitoring has long been a proving ground for new implementations of open technologies. While there is indisputable value in creative problem-solving through technical collaboration — to help us adapt, change, and update legacy systems —…

Julie Vastine, Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring — Dickinson College The impact of community-based data collection programs — for volunteers, for organizations, and ultimately for healthy environments — is significant. Effective study design and strong quality control measures sets these programs up for success, and leaders in the environmental assessment…

Ashley Schuett (International Science and Technology Policy Graduate Student, George Washington University), Juan Pedro Maestre (Research Associate and Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin), and Katie Hoeberling (Director of Policy Initiatives, Open Environmental Data Project) Actors seeking to use open hardware and low cost tools for environmental data collection often…

Brianna Johns (GOSH Community Coordinator) and Pen-Yuan Hsing (GOSH Community Councilor; Co-founder MammalWeb; Research Associate Open!Next project, University of Bath, United Kingdom) Building and maintaining communities is a critical endeavor within both open source and environmental initiatives. …

Julieta Arancio, Drexel University and University of Bath post-doc. Open source origin stories are often associated with the joy developers get from learning, from being creative to solve problems (1,2). …

Caitlyn A. Hall, PhD, University of Arizona Often when scientists work to ensure that their science is open, they limit their thinking to other experts. Scientists also often think globally — the big, catchy, broader impacts. This thinking ultimately neglects those who may be most impacted by their work: people…

Scott H. Ensign, Ph.D., Stroud Water Research Center Summary: Open hardware for water monitoring, combined with a national network of technical support for community science enabled by powerful web-based data sharing and management tools, is leading a revolution in solving water pollution problems. On a Thursday afternoon from my office…

Pushing the boundaries of innovative and accessible tools Shannon Dosemagen, Alison Parker, Katie Hoeberling, Ashley Schuett How we collect environmental data is changing as new tools and approaches promise to broaden how people interact with this data. In particular, innovation in low-cost and open science hardware tools is making it…

This is the 16th and final post of the series of the Open Hardware Distribution and Documentation Working Group. The group aims to produce a proof of concept for distributed open science hardware (OScH) manufacturing, exploring key aspects like quality, documentation, business models and more using as a starting point…