Well said, Sela!

Thank you, Sela!

This is sooo valuable. I’ve got spreadsheets with notes on almost all of them with incredible connections that are out there in the potential collaborator dream 🙂

Thanks Kathy - I think you have not missed even one RSCA in Five!

Thank you, Jason. And more over, thank you for being such a great colleague, and consistently providing me with perspectives and insights across so many topics.

Thank you Dean Kaufman!

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Great talk Jennifer - how much cargo cycling is happening now in Oakland or elsewhere?

What % of delivery is feasible for cargo cycling on average?

What are some of the facilitators for adopting this practice?

Great talk Jennifer! Do you see this expanding into other delivery sectors? If so, do you think that would be an important contribution, or is most of the pollution coming from the Amazon-type deliveries?

Has there been a cost comparison?

Will your team plan to share your data with local goverment?

I wonder if you have used online sports apps like Strava for heat maps of what routes people take?

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Great research, Jennifer!

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Thank you, Professor Hartle. Great talk! I’m particularly interested as an Oakland resident 🙂.

Really interesting research, Jennifer! Thank you.

Fantastic work, Jennifer!

Hopeful to think about how this research as well as other methods and funding can bring a modicum of restitution — or maybe a program of measures — to this neighborhood after the era of redevelopment.

Very interesting work, Jennifer. Thanks for your presentation

Thanks, my question was also going to be about street infrastructure to support safe cycling, great point too @Kathy about using Strava to know where cyclists choose to ride

@Katherine H.- Strava is a great idea. I have proposed using Empatica devices to record the physiological stress of urban biking. I will look into Strava.

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@Jennifer: Here’s Strava heat map data: https://www.strava.com/heatmap

@Carlie- Yes- safety is a top concern. Not only exposure to air pollution for cargo cycle operators, but also the potential for accidents to motor vehicles. Our student researchers witnessed multiple near miss accidents in their short time in the field.

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Great talk Amanda, I know you have some new work, that is very locally relevant as it is about the recent 2020 CZU fires. Could you talk briefly about that Knight Foundation-funded work?

Such exciting work Amanda! If all of these approaches were adopted in California, do you have a ballpark estimate of what percentage of California fires could be prevented/ended earlier?

@Jennifer - I kept thinking about the harrowing existence of NYC bike messengers.

Amanda, Is there any work on the balance between the benefits of prescribed burns and the detriments such as air pollution?

Very important work, Amanda! Thank you for undertaking it. Great presentation!

Is there a public facing or digital version of this tool available now? Or a write up? (Thinking about adding this to the digital projects on our nascent Digital Humanities Center site which would be a wonderful addition to the list of digitally-inflected projects already: https://library.sjsu.edu/digitalhumanities#tab-333-3

Great work Amanda! I look forward to hearing more about these important fire efforts such as the RFPA and prescribed burn projects.

Great work! SO important

Thanks Amanda - that was a great answer!

Also, anyone here: if you have a project or student project that uses ANY TYPE OF digital projects (with any type of output), please add it to our growing list of digital projects on our campus here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbUB47kMNpT2usj-8DhI68mT5yW76WY2xA7gm6Fx0RtTM0oA/viewform

Great talk, Amanda. I was recently talking with a real estate agent in Los Gatos and was surprised (and happy) to hear that she knew all about WUIs and home hardening. In your opinion, what agencies or organizations are key to community education for wildfire risk for your different groups?

Is the resistance to fire adaptation coming from a belief that humans should keep out of nature?

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Yes, publications count! Add those links to the Google form for the DH Center!

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Are there lessons from this research that can be generalized to US crop farming in the west?

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Such interesting work, Nate! Are there similar shrubs that we could use in California agriculture and/or gardening?

Really cool research Nate? How many farmers are adopting the joint cropping method?

Very nicely done, Nate!

Would applying this in CA be challenging given the unpredictability of rainfall here?

Thank you, Professor Bogie. Very interesting research!

Hi @Richard! Thanks for your question about prescribed burns and detriments! Quite a few folks are doing work around the tradeoffs, especially in the carbon sequestration world, around prescribed fire, vs no prescribed fire, vs wildfire. Some people I've interviewed on the far environmental end of the spectrum are apprehensive about using prescribed fire because of the carbon it would release. Lots of folks in the wood products research community have been doing the tradeoffs (economic, environmental) related to the different ways we conduct fuels treatments to direct Congressional and State funding towards biofuels, small diameter timber markets, and trying to legitimize prescribed fire from additional angles, like shore term, mild vs longer-duration and hazardous air quality issues.

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That hydraulic distribution of the crop and the shrub is a beautiful symbiosis. It would also be interesting to know how the shrubs have other applications to the material culture or living practices in those areas. Like a shrub nursery plus a crop system.

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Thank you for the great presentation

There are a number of plants that grow throughout CA that have hydraulic redistribution - sagebrush (A. Tridentata) as well as a couple different oak species, I believe

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Thank you for your work on sustainable energy!

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Thank you Igor really interesting work!

Thank you for sharing your research, Professor Tyukhov!

Thank you Igor!

In case people are wondering - We will break after Dr. Han’s presentation.

We will break at 11:50. When Dr. Han was orginally scheduled.

What does the sound correspond to?

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My apologies - to accommodate speakers schedules we will continue with the next two talks and break at apporiximately 11:50.

Oh wow!! Yoon already has a project in the DH Center list, but this is super important to add: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbUB47kMNpT2usj-8DhI68mT5yW76WY2xA7gm6Fx0RtTM0oA/viewform

Wow beautiful, compelling and important work Yoon

Very interesting project! Thanks for sharing. How did you evaluate the effects of visual/audio elements on audience’s perception or impression?

Very interesting work. Have you had a chance to interact with audience members to gauge their perceptions? Do you view this as a conversation or more as a narrative going one way?

Yoon - Where does your wildfire data come from? Have you worked with our own Wildfire Institute at SJSU to obtain data?

Awesome work - cool to think about consuming data in ways other than visually

Fascinating! Very engaging work

Some of Yoon's work is interactive -- Yoon may want to speak to that aspect of some of her work.

What audiences have you presented to? Age ranges?

Thank you, Professor Han. Very engaging research!

Beyond being beautiful, this feels like a very interesting approach to data visualization. Do you work with others to visualize data in this unique ways for policy discussions/debates?

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Another great connection!

Yoon - I would love to talk to you about our Campus Reading Program for Fall 2022 which is on climate change

@Thalia, we have a lot of H&A events for the Fall/Spring on Sustainability and climate change. Maybe we can collaborate?

Thank you Dr. Han!

Oo, nice slides!

For Dr. Alexander

Thank you very much everyone!

I enjoyed the dynamism and interactive nature of your work, Yoon Chung.

Thank you Katherine!

@Yoon, all of this, seriously, we need this listed in the DH Center bc you cross the boundaries between art and science.

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@Katherine let's talk. I am all about collaboration

@Richard, that's a good point. I haven't worked on policy discussion/debates yet and hope to learn more. I have been collaborating with engineers for many of my data visualization projects.

@Thalia, you can see what we did this year here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TxSRV5TzQGwSFcSUfShMU5K9NeYc1ZlHtR0OoApS1GE/edit?usp=sharing

@Katherine, Sure, let me know how I can help!

@Yoon, add it to our list of DH projects thru the Google form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbUB47kMNpT2usj-8DhI68mT5yW76WY2xA7gm6Fx0RtTM0oA/viewform

Yoon - you have one in there already, but definitely add this one, too. Such terrific work

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Great job, Serena! I appreciate consideration and advocacy for inclusion of micro-scale landscape factors--trees matter!

Wonderful slides here, Serena - super appreciate the visuals

thank you serena! you've brought up some important environmental justice issues!

Awesome, Serena! Thank you so much for sharing this very important work with us! I look foward to continued success!

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There is so much residential building happening in the Central Valley of CA. Are these issues being considered in that planning?

Time

@Serena - I wonder if there’s a way to host a community discussion about this at SJSU?

Dr. Alexander there are a few questions in the chat for you!

@Barbara- Absolutely! We have a huge housing crisis in California, but we have to be smart about where we build housing. Cities and MPOs have developed priority development areas; these are areas with greater access to transit, compact areas, and areas with better access to jobs and amenities. In practice, it is difficult to provide affordable housing in these highly desirable areas though!

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@Katherine - Alan Soldofsky and Legacy of Poetry at SJSU (always in April) is working on Sustainability and poetry next year. They’re working with Veggielution at the downtown Pocket Park (near MACLA & S. 1st Street). Would you consider working on a community engaged event with poetry or even our City partners with Veggielution (where they are used to doing events with kids) — or even getting your students involved the April Legacy of Poetry events this year on “Can Poetry Save the Planet” — see the list of events here: https://www.sjsu.edu/legacyofpoetry/LoPCurrent/index.php

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@Katherine - that’s a great idea! I work with VTA, the City of SJ, MTI, and California Air Resources Board! There is a great interest in this!

@Serena, College of H&A does a lot of work with setting up engaging and exciting events (because we are experts at storytelling) and would be interested in talking further about how to do this kind of meeting & include our environmental literature studies students & faculty

It seems like the behavioral impacts are clear, do you have any data on the medium term impacts on scholastic achievement?

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Great work Katherine

Many thanks for your RSCA work, Katherine, and for your very important DEI efforts in the Department of Environmental Studies. And, of course, CommUniverCity is so important too!

Such great work

Such awesome work - thanks for sharing!

Thank you for sharing, Katherine. This is awesome!

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Is it challenging to get school districts to allocate time/resources for this? (Sounds like Julia asked the same Q)

@Katherine, There is an interesting study based in Nebraska on the impact of aquaponics classroom (Maurice Godfrey at UNMC) setups on nutrition behavior, as they used the systems to teach about growing and also nutrition.

@Katherine - Great! I’d be happy to contribute!

Meaningful work, truly benefits our underserved communities. Many Rocketship schools integrate gardens

@Katherine C - ah yes! You are already in contact with Veggielution - pls see my comment re working with Legacy of Poetry this year (if you’re not already)

Hi, all. Thank you for your nice comments and questions. Since CommUniverCity has longstanding relationships with local schools and afterschool programs, I'd say it has been easier (but not easy) to do this kind of work. One challenge has been getting teachers to share curriculum so we can try and synch up garden lessons with other concepts they are learning at the grade level.

@Katherine - I wonder if we might offer an easy archive for those kinds of assignments? We do this with our Sustainability assignments this year here: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sustainable-futures-prompts/

In case attendees are interested in learning more about the need for more diversity in green STEM fields, check out my Op Ed on this issue: https://visiblemagazine.com/new-jobs-in-the-vaccine-economy-and-the-green-economy/

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Are there worries that this type of communication may become politicized through channel constrictions based on some of the issue that have been happening with trusting official sources in the public health realm?

During SCU fire, while we didn’t get an evacuation notice, we would have liked more updates as to status of the fire relative to our community. Also, people, were confused on evacuation routes. No prior information was given. Any ideas here?

What types of social media communications would be used for this app? News? Neighborhood websites? Normal users using hashtags?

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Note: when presenting, you can’t always see the chat or don’t notice it.

How much participation do CERT programs get?

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such important information, thank you frannie!

Thank you for this work Frannie!

Such very important work, Frannie! I am guilty of “milling,” I must admit. The new approaches will definitely help me and my neighbors!

Thank you for sharing this important work Dr. Edwards!

Thank you, Frannie. Temporality is so important--thank you for addressing it.

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The app envisions data scraping from whatever social media allows it and from all official sources.

@Frannie, this would be a great addition to our DH Center list of projects — even a link to an explanation of the app (if not the app itself): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbUB47kMNpT2usj-8DhI68mT5yW76WY2xA7gm6Fx0RtTM0oA/viewform

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Thank you, Professor Luna-Mega. Fascinating talk!

This is why we are urging more community education in aadvance of fire, so they understand wha they are seeing better, and they have mor information about the sources of real-time information on the event from CalFire.

Great work, Cristopher! I have a 12:30 class, so need to run. I am so impressed with everyone's work. Thank you to the Research and Innovation team for organizing us.

Thank you for your work! It is so important to be able to broaden the coalition of environmentally-minded community members by engaging through multiple media and venues.

Do you offer similar workshops here at SJSU? That could be really cool. Very interesting talk.

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Only Twitter and Next door and maybe Instagram are allowing data scraping, but the goal would be to access all available social media material to connect to the app.

Wondering how we might engage K12 teachers to think about this approach in melding arts and science education… thoughts?

Fantastic! Would love to connect further.

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When I was San Jose's OES director I had 5,000 members. It is cyclical and requires s=constand promotion - lessons we are trying to share with public gencies.

is it possible to use drones in SJSU campus for example solar PV on the roofs?

for monitoring

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Were there environmental factors reducing accuracy of the drones (like sediment in water or dense vegetation?)

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If you haven’t met with our Marine Science faculty at MLML, I’m happy to make an introduction.

Would it be possible to put the open access GIS link into the chat?

Do you encounter legal issues in piloting the drones? Are you training staff/students to fly the drones?

Is Dr. Yang working with Dr. Jerry Gao on his wildand fire monitoring activities? They re using drone form wter sensing in foliage.

Excellent presentation, Bo! Thank you for sharing info about your work!

Fascinating talk, Bo. Especially interested in seagrass health.

Thank you Julia, Walt, Katherine, and Heather for your comments, inquiries and suggestions. Thanks all for your talks and listening. Looking forward to connect

In Stockton, CA a few years ago they used drones to map the tree canopy to map the hottest park of the city. They learned that the lowest economic areas were 10-20 degrees hotter on average (fewer trees). They want to use this for planning tree planting.

Your research sites are all on my list of possible retirement locations ;-) …. I appreciate your work to preserve the natural beauty and ensure the environmental health of these spaces!!

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Thanks to everyone for the kind comments. I hope I answered all the quesrions. The paper wi be published by MTI and we plan a webinar this summer.

@Barbara- it sounds like there is a lot potential for advocacy by using drones for this application.

Yes Jennifer, that was part of the plan too

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Awesome presentation, Bonnie!

Love that the proximity allows for you to involve students and potentially community members as well. What do you envision for student research participation?

Thank you for a great presentation, Professor Ludka!

can tardigrades to survive in salty moss?

Such exciting work, Bonnie!

Exciting research and excellent presentation

Very interesting work, Bonnie!

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thanks

Thank you!!

Thank you everyone, for these great talks!

Thanks everyone!

Great combination of research presentations… I particularly appreciate the connections between scientific discovery and communication with a wide audience.

Great stuff! Thanks for organizing this.

Thank you everyone, inspiring work!

Thanks for presenting all of your interesting and interdisciplinary work everyone!

Inspiring, thanks everyone!!

Thanks everyone for the informative presentations!

And thanks to the organizers for running it very smoothly.

Amazing presentations from everyone! Thank you for sharing your impactful work with us!

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Well done everyone! Thanks for sharing your research!

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Track A. Living in a changing climate: pre-disaster action around adaptation, resilience, and mitigation; andTrack B. Bridging the gap between essential resources and services & community needs.

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Faculty workshops can be found here: https://www.sjsu.edu/research/research-development/training/index.php

~45 students presenting posters at the Celebration of Research - in person!

This was a great event. I appreciate all I learned from the wonderful researchers @ SJSU!

Thanks everyone!

And please consider attending the Grad Slam: https://www.sjsu.edu/cgs/events/grad-slam/index.php

This was a wonderful event - thank you to the organizers and participants!

Thank yoU!