Mobile Application Development

Twitter Species Observation

Baltimore/DC Cricket Crawl – Aug24 2012

Derek MasakiEco-Science SynthesisNational Geospatial Programdmasaki@usg.gov

USGS has some experience in developing Twitter based applications for earthquake monitoring (Twitter Earthquake Detector)

Twitter Based Citizen Science Observation Platform

Twitter Mobile - Cricket Observations

 Web based visualization of citizen volunteered information utilizing Twitter client and API (stream and data mining)

Twitter based submission protocol

Scripts to mine Twitter stream API

Visualization elements – mapping, tabular output.

 

Tweets (@speciesobs) – Stream API

MongoDB – Observations Web Map

Twitter Based Citizen Science Observation Platform

BISON Species Observations

SMS, Email, Voice

Twitter Based Citizen Science Observation Platform

Aug24 Cricket Crawl Event

Tweets, Email, SMS, Voice

Sam Droege – USGS

John Pickering – Discover Life

1 min. survey

Could go where they wanted

Call, text, twitter, email results in right from the site

Headquarters processed information

Map in real time (Discover Life, University of Hawaii)

Twitter Based Citizen Science Observation Platform

~ 400 sites surveyed

~ 300 individuals involved

~1800 species observations

Most people went out in small groups

75% came in email format, most from mobile

10% Twitter

Cricket Crawl Participation

Twitter Based Citizen Science Observation Platform

Standard Form

8 Species

1minute

Tweet/e-mail/SMS/Call

Twitter Client

gMail/gVoice

Twitter Based Citizen Science Observation Platform

Twitter Species Observation – tweet observation, recorded sound, image, location. Once reviewed and vetted, observation appears (usually within minutes) on a web available map.

Twitter Based Citizen Science Observation Platform

500+ participants, students, scientists, citizen naturalists. 2500+ observations.

Moving Forward

• Regional Interest – Phenology Program

• National Coordination – Volunteer Monitoring

• Reuse of Technology – Frogs, Birds

• Hawaii K12 Critter Crawl – October 2012

• USGS Support for Social Media/Mobile

Acknowledgements

• Community for Data Integration

• BISON Team – Stinger Guala, Ben Wheeler, Annie Simpson, Elizabeth Martin

• University of Hawaii Interns – David Elies, Brylian Foronda

• Sam Droege – USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

• Citizen Science Working Group – Megan Hines, Liz Sellers, Annie Simpson et al

• John Pickering – Discover Life

• Isla Young – Maui Economic Development Board (K12 STEMworks)

MAHALO!