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Mobile Application Development
Twitter Species Observation
Baltimore/DC Cricket Crawl – Aug24 2012
Derek MasakiEco-Science SynthesisNational Geospatial [email protected]
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!