Citclops: new water-quality monitoring strategies and participation of citizens 2013 10-22

Citclops: new water-quality monitoring strategies and participation of citizens in environmental stewardshipLuigi Ceccaroni (Barcelona Digital Technology Centre)Jaume Piera (ICM-CSIC)Carine Simon, Laia Subirats, Julia Busch, Karin Dubsky and the Citclops Consortium

3rd International Marine Protected Areas Congress, Marseille (France), October 22, 2013

Which one will you drive?

Luigi Ceccaroni - Citclops: new water-quality monitoring strategies and participation of citizens in environmental stewardship

Which one will you use?


ultraviolet photometer ultraviolet photometer

Monitoring: resolution, accuracy


μM = 10−6 mol/dm3 = 10−3 mol/m3

In situ ultraviolet spectrophotometer to

measure nutrients

20.000 €

Temporal and spatial variability?

High accuracy

Monitoring: frequency


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1 sample every month (at 10 am on the first day of the month)

1 sample every week (at 10 am on the first day of the week)

Monterey Bay, California

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This is a typical frequency in

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Monitoring: resolution


20.000 €

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Questionnaire to citizens

Monitoring: resolution


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• Not (only) resolution, but…• Mobile devices as sensor platforms• Georeferencing • Education through citizens’ effective participation• Community involvement• Internet-distribution and social platforms to share

observations:• Photos (ocean color, transparency)• Oil spills• Algal blooms• Jellyfishes

• Or interpretations of observations:• Recommendations• Decision support

From current monitoring to "participatory environmental science"


• Before: Citizens as environmental-data consumers• Monitoring tackled by scientists or policy makers alone

• Expensive• Hard to use technology• High resolution, high accuracy, high precision• Low temporal and spatial coverage

• Now: Citizens as environmental-data creators and consumers• Monitoring tackled by scientists, policy makers and citizens

• Low cost• Easy to use technology• Low resolution, average accuracy, average precision• Potentially high temporal and spatial coverage


From current monitoring to "participatory environmental science"

The Citclops European project [www.citclops.eu]

• Proliferation of cheap, powerful sensors to measure optical properties of the water

• Participatory science integrating the general public into the environmental stewardship and increasing people awareness of water quality

• People firmly connected on social networks

The Citclops European project: the convergence of three trends


http://www.citclops.eu/

• Outreach and training activities• Ensuring that citizens can participate in all stages of

knowledge management: • Collection• Validation / Interpretation• Delivery

• “Smart“: Leaving complete control of the situation and enhancing decision-making by providing more information:• Example: Contribution to ocean-color research, coupling color

to phytoplankton, and informing about the ocean’s health• What’s in it for me? Education, info on pollution…

Citizens’ participation via “smart” devices


Citizens’ participation


Collection

• What about participatory science involving people on training cruises, on sailing races, on holiday (scuba diving, on the beach) in data collection?



Tall Ship Regatta21st Sept. - 4th October 2013: Barcelona - Toulon - La Spezia




Barcelona World Race4th November 2013: training in the Canary Islands of the around the world sailboat race




• Water-color, oil-spill, river-status measurement• Water transparency via phone pictures and

Secchi disc• Retrieval of sensor measurements from low-

cost moorings

Applications, applications


Information acquisition: UVindeSir: The UV Index Meter


Information acquisition


Information acquisition




ValidationInterpretation

Information processing

• Standardization, interoperability• GIS and satellite-data processing, integration and

interpretation• Data-quality validation in real-time

• Taking into account position, orientation, temperature…

• Context-awareness• Data provided in a more or less voluntary, active or conscious

way• Metadata and context data: time, location, name, instrument

• Personalisation• Location• Social environment• Profile and personal history


Peer-to-peer validation

based on

Reputation system

(experience level)

Challenges– Time to complete validation– Set up– Skill demonstration– Managing time for validation– Busy experts

Monitoring: validation


Information processing

• Standardization, interoperability• GIS and satellite-data processing, integration and

interpretation• Data-quality validation in real-time

• Taking into account position, orientation, temperature…

• Context-awareness• Data provided in a more or less voluntary, active or conscious

way• Metadata and context data: time, location, name, instrument

• Personalisation• Location• Social environment• Profile and personal history




Delivery

Objectives: 1. To make map-based information and alerts about

water quality easily available

2. To help citizens in decision making about marine activities, increasing knowledge about water quality and taking into account users’ reputation

3. To keep citizens engaged in monitoring (example: Coastwatch in the Ebro Delta)

4. To provide the public administration with access to all data generated via citizen participation

5. To integrate participatory science with professional and leisure activities of citizens

Information delivery


• Improvement of scuba-diving activities• Best beaches’ ranking • Early-warning systems for HABs and bio-

chemical hazards

Applications, applications






Information delivery: decision support


Information delivery: decision support


Acquisition, processing, delivery: a new way


• Participatory science as a more efficient way to carry out monitoring• Resolution, temporal and spatial coverage

• Smart phones, currently, as the preferred technological substrate

• No standard recipe for participatory science• Smart-phone apps• Do it yourself, Ikea-style: build your own

buoy (or any other instrument)

Conclusions, open questions (1/2)


• What is the right scale for participatory science?• 500 m? Beach? Municipality? Region?

• How to engage a critical mass of citizens?• MPAs are especially suitable to engage

citizens in participatory science

• Role and priority of different elements of participatory science?• Technology, citizens' involvement, activities'

protocols, parameters to be collected

Conclusions, open questions (2/2)


http://www.citclops.eu/http://www.coastwatch.org/http://creekwatch.researchlabs.ibm.com/http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/eap/fw_riv/rv_main.htmlhttp://projectbaseline.orghttp://crowd.cs.umass.edu/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_sciencehttp://senseable.mit.edu/http://research.cens.ucla.edu/aquatic/http://www.secchidipin.org/http://www.earthobservations.org/geo_me_201211_geo9_ec.shtmlhttp://www.nurp.noaa.gov/Spotlight/Observatory.htmhttp://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/LEO/LEO15.htmlhttp://www.indiegogo.com/projects/uvindesir-the-tiny-uv-index-meter-for-

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Citclops: new water-quality monitoring strategies and participation of citizens in environmental stewardship

Luigi Ceccaroni (Barcelona Digital Technology Centre)Jaume Piera (ICM-CSIC)Carine Simon (ICM-CSIC)Laia Subirats (Barcelona Digital Technology Centre)Julia Busch (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)Karin Dubsky (Coastwatch Europe)and the Citclops Consortium

3rd International Marine Protected Areas Congress, Marseille (France), October 22, 2013

Citclops: new water-quality monitoring strategies and participation of citizens 2013 10-22

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