Shannon Dosemagen | Fix the Environmental Data Problem

Citizen Science
Written By David Lang


Bio | Shannon (she/her) is an environmental health advocate, community science champion and enthusiastic about the potential for open systems and technology to support the creation of a more just and equitable future. 

She has spent the last 20 years working with environment and public health groups to address declining freshwater resources, coastal land loss and building monitoring programs with communities living adjacent to industrial facilities. Shannon is a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow working on the Open Environmental Data Project, co-founder of Public Lab and Executive Director from 2010-20 and currently Organization Advisor, a steward of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware, Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Open Hardware, member of the Union of Concerned Scientists Science Advocacy working group, and previous Chair of both the U.S. EPA National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology and the Citizen Science Association. She is a Rita Allen Foundation Civic Science Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, a senior fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, and is a previous Fellow at both the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and Loyola University Environmental Communications Institute.

Links | Personal Website | Twitter | Open Environmental Data Project

Intro | Shannon Dosemagen has been a leader in a number of important movements: citizen & community science, open hardware, low-cost tools for science. Now she’s turning her attention to the problems emerging with environmental data.

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