2011 grassroots mapping gowanus canal balloon and kite aerials pdf presentation

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Grassroots Mapping Creating cheap open source aerial imagery and data for Community efforts to cleanup a polluted neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, USA Bringing memories and fun back to civic data Public Laboratory for Open Technology & Science Kite Photographed “Grassroots” Crop Marks of Roman Buildings, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy, Flickr, Paolo Opaxir, May 2008

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This is an overview PDF presentation of the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science’s Grassroots Mapping activities around the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. It includes 2011 Balloon and Kite Aerials for sites of interest to Proteus Gowanus, Gowanus Dredgers and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy. Prepared with community input by Jeffrey Warren and Eymund Diegel.

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Grassroots Mapping Creating cheap open source aerial imagery and data for Community efforts to cleanup a polluted neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Bringing memories and fun back to civic data

Public Laboratory for Open Technology & Science

Kite Photographed “Grassroots” Crop Marks of Roman Buildings, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy, Flickr, Paolo Opaxir, May 2008

Manhattan

Gowanus Watershed

The Canal

Historic Landfilled Tidal Marsh

A Community Campaign in need of Grassroots Data to help with decisions and new ideas

Manhattan

Gowanus Canal Superfund Pollution Cleanup Site

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“Sludgie” Superfund mascot: Anna Martin 2009

We live in an age of amazing technological access but…

Sometimes we want to know more ..

So who do you call ..?

Peru

USA

Aerial Photos courtesy of Google Maps and Bing Aerials circa 2009 (?)

Unless stated otherwise, all photo credits are Grassrootsmapping.org, 2011

Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science

Exploring ways to make technology and science more accessible for local Community ideas

Creating a VISUAL record of Community activities

HELPING ANSWER THE QUESTION: HOW DO WE DO IT ?

WWW.PUBLICLABORATORY.ORG

FOR THE GULF OIL SPILL …

HELPING ANSWER THE QUESTION: WHAT HAPPENED?

FOR THE GULF OIL SPILL …

KEEPING A PUBLIC RECORD:

WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE ?

MAKING “HOW TO..” TOOLS AVAILABLE ONLINE …

AND SETTING UP A MUTUAL LEARNING PROCESS

CONSTANTLY SEEKING IMPROVEMENTS THROUGH A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS

Recycled Plastic Bottle Camera Stabilizer Rig

Jen Hudon, 2010

Grassrootsmapping.Org discussion forums

Nat Fein, 1947, Central Park

Eymund Diegel (Proteus / Gowanus Canal Conservancy / Dredgers) with Canoers from Gowanus Dredgers, about to use balloons to take aerial photos of the Canal waters and edges. Photo credit: 2011 Mike Weiss, Brooklyn Eagle

The Gowanus Canal Conservancy

Map: Susannah Drake, dlandstudio, 2010

FIRST STREET BASIN RESTORATION

BROUWERS BROOK / DEGRAW ST BIO SWALE

BERGEN CREEK / BATTLE BRIDGE

PUBLIC PLACE PARK

SECOND AVE BIOSWALE

FOURTH STREET BASIN RESTORATION

SECOND STREET SPONGE PARK

WHOLE FOODS PARK

BIOSWALE

BROUWERS

OIL POLLUTION

SECOND AVE STREET END SITE AERIAL SHOWING ILLEGAL MOTOR OIL SPILLS

27 March 2011 Grassroots Mapping Kite Aerial

Water Sensitive Urban Design How can cheap High resolution aerials help ?

1766 Historical Watershed Modeling by Lucas Kronawitter, 2011 ArcHydro Watershed Flow Map by Eymund Diegel, 2010 Grass by Albrecht Durer, 1503

Sites for which we we want aerial data :

versus ECOLOGICAL WATER CYCLE

URBAN WATER CYCLE

IT RAINS

WATER GOES INTO PIPE

CONDENSATION

EVAPORATION

INFILTRATION

IT RAINS

SOME WATER GOES INTO PIPE

WE ARE LOOKING FOR GOOD INFILTRATION SITES

Being able to see the vegetation is important:

Whole Food Site

31 July 2011 Balloon Aerial

Trees like growing near buried old streams and survive best near “edges”

Capturing the 4 Seasons of the Canal’s first Green Infrastructure

22 January 2011

27 March 2011

21 July 2011

Winter

Spring

Summer

Winter

Spring

www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org

CREATING A HISTORY

www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org

ENCOURAGING DATA SHARING & BETTER IDEAS BETWEEN CITY, STATE, THE COMMUNITY & LOCAL INDUSTRY

MAINTAINING AN ONLINE RECORD OF HOW WE DO THINGS

The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club

Making the Canal fun while providing information about its water quality to the Community through free boats and education events

Come on down !

www.gowanuscanal.org

REACHING OUT

WHEN IT SUCKS, ADVERTISE IT

Youth Programs

Reconnecting with Urban Wildlife Supporting Grassroots Mapping

Pollution Monitoring

Helping with Replanting Programs

Media Outreach

Fun !

Proteus Gowanus

Historical Maps from the Hall of the Gowanus

Community Happenings

Education & Outreach

Proteus Gowanus acts as an interpreter of culture and place, deepening the community’s sense of context and connection

1639 1782 1836 1837 1844

Bringing Memory Back to Space

Bess Adler, Brooklyn Paper, June 2011 www.proteusgowanus.org

Interdisciplinary Gallery & Reading Room

Scientific Samples & Data as Art

Kat

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elly

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Me

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Superfund Manager Tsiamis

1766

1924

The Star of the Gowanus

The Canal is being given a fun new life by artists

Historic Brouwer’s Mill Bridge Site: We want to keep a visual record as dredging and cleanup proceeds M

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Hall of the Gowanus area (Union Street Bridge)

July 2011 Grassroots Mapping Balloon Photo

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LANDFILLED DURING 1960’S BY TRUCKS COMING AT NIGHT

FEDERAL CLEANUP INVESTIGATION FOUND TOXIC LEVELS OF MERCURY

WILL NEED EXCAVATION

WHAT CAN WE FIND OUT ?

Above: 1951 Aerial with Boats Below: 2011 View of Filled Basin

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FIRST STREET BASIN SITE Map: Bernard Ratzer,1766 Painting: Alonzo Chappel, Battle of Long Island, 1858

1766 stream overlay

COULD THIS SPRING STILL BE RUNNING ?

1766 stream

Birds and Fish as guides to where the clean water is for restoration opportunities Heron photo: 2007 Bob Gusskind

Brouwers Brook Restoration (Degraw Street Bioswale) Mapping the historic streams of the Gowanus Canal

Are there clues in the water’s color ?

D.I.Y Infrared Analysis

Whole Foods Site Infrared Photo Test Exploring

whether nutrient levels in water can be mapped

Why was this outflow concealed ?

INCONCLUSIVE RESULTS

But ..

Whole Food Site: Just an Experiment .. But raising questions..

Whole Food Parking Lot overlaid on 1766 Map showing potential streams

Wetlands that grew in holes where they were digging out toxic soil

How does the proposed parking

stormwater management plan

respond to local condition ?..

proposed parking

management plan management plan respond to local respond to local

Is there an opportunity for better Green Stormwater Management Infrastructure ?

? ?

Map: Whole Foods, BL Co, via Pardon Me For Asking, Katia Kelly, 2011

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Where did we screw up? What can we do better ?

WHAT HAVE BEEN SOME OF OUR CHALLENGES ?

Dredgers Wetland

Street runoff + local plants

2007

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Tidal site + intervention

NEED BETTER IMAGE QUALITY

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Working with “we know where you are” technology

WHERE TO FROM HERE ?

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Dredgers Dredgers Dredgers Dredgers

Conservancy Conservancy Conservancy

Dredgers

BLUE = PEOPLE USING PERSONAL MEDIA DEVICES AT FORMERLY ABANDONED CANAL SITES

Eric

Fis

her,

2011

WHAT WILL BE THE NON TRADITIONAL DATA SOURCES OF THE FUTURE ?

IDEA: GEOTAGGED POLLUTION MONITORING & PLANT IMAGES THAT AUTOMATICALLY OVERLAY ON GRASSROOTS AERIALS

Gina Wirth, 2011