The Grassroots Mapping Forum

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Read about cutting edge techniques in hacking environmental science in the third regular subscription issue of the "Grassroots Mapping Forum", our community research journal/archive/zine/map, where we hope to share ideas, techniques, and stories from the Public Lab community.

The Grassroots Mapping Forum is printed on a two 22.75x35" sheets of acid-free paper, and includes a full color reproduction of a grassroots map along with essays, illustrated guides, and interviews. It's a great way to stay abreast of the latest in the DIY environmental science movement.

Issue #3 (spring 2013)

Issue 3 is an in depth look at community organizing in the Public Lab community.

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• A full color, wall-ready map of UC Davis during the Occupy protests with notes from the cartographer and mappers
• An interview with citizen scientist organizer Cindy Regalado (Shannon Dosemagen)
• Protest Mapping (Oscar Brett)
• Organizing Public Lab (Shannon Dosemagen)
• Open Sourcing Jerusalem? (Hagit Keysar)
• Barnstars! (Liz Barry)
• Civic and Citizen Science: the Cocodrie Barnraising heats up (dialog from the Public Lab 2012 Barnraising)

Issue #2 (summer 2012)

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• A full color wall-ready map the Chandeleur Islands with notes from the ground and bios of the mappers.
• UAS Ethics: A dialogue on Unpiloted Aerial System (drone) ethics between privacy lawyers, drone developers, and balloon-loving grassroots mappers. (ed. Mathew Lippincott, including Amie Stepanovich and Coby Leuschke)
• DIY Near-Infrared Imaging (Chris Fastie and Jeff Warren)
• An interview with Scott Eustis of the Gulf Restoration Network (Shannon Dosemagen)
• Quick, fun activities you can do to get involved in Grassroots Mapping!

Issue #1 (summer 2011)

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• A full color wall-ready map of an island in Barataria Bay showing oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
• An interview with Gulf Coast resident Barbara Marcotte (Shannon Dosemagen
• Details on how to get started balloon or kite mapping (Jeff Warren)

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Learn about and get involved in writing, editing, publishing, promoting, and distributing the forum on the forum planning page.

Using Content from Grassroots Mapping Forum

The Forum is a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike licensed document. If you'd like to use content from it, go ahead! Mathew can provide high-res artwork and original files if those are helpful to you, just send an e-mail to mathew@publiclaboratory.org.