Research and gather a list of climate change citizen science applications & data

The Goal Climate change affects current and future generations; adaptation and risk mitigation is necessary. In 2019 we set out to research how software can help deal with the impacts. With the advent of new technologies for environmental monitoring and tools for sharing information, citizens are more and more engaged in collecting environmental data, and many environmental agencies are using these data. A significant challenge, however, is that data users, such as federal, state, and local agencies, are sometimes skeptical about the quality of the data collected by citizen science organizations. We would like you to help us research, and gather data on international citizen science software applications & data sources (eg. open source projects, marketplaces, and applications). Research on how citizen science new technologies collect, analyze and report environmental data, this information will be saved on a template which we will provide.

Analyzing Deploy Solutions carbon footprint to get to Net Zero

The Goal Carbon Trust states that “A carbon footprint measures the total greenhouse gas emissions caused directly and indirectly by a person, organization, event or product.” Our carbon footprint relates to the impact our organization has on the environment. Our employees work remotely from their homes in different cities and use computers and online web services by Microsoft, Amazon, and other service providers. We would like you to help us analyze, identify and document steps to take in measuring and managing our business carbon footprint including that of our service providers so we can get to Net Zero.

Identify privacy & personal data issues relevant to a citizen science web app

The Goal We are in the design and planning phase of a new climate change-related citizen science web prototype (related to "UN Sustainable Development Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts"). The prototype will be a mobile-friendly website that allows citizens to take and submit photos and other “ground truth” observations to the Trusted Authorities, during /after floods. This information can be used to help the authorities assess and predict the flood or disaster scope and impact. We are building a web application prototype that citizen scientists that will use to safely take and submit photos and other "ground truth" observations to the Trusted Authorities, during/after floods and other climate change-related natural disasters. Citizen scientists will be taking images and uploading them to a website. We need to verify who they are and track their observation histories. So, we wish to carefully consider and balance trade-offs between the need to properly verify observations while protecting the privacy of the observers. For instance, citizen scientists may wish to have themselves removed from the system at some point, and we must consider how to do that while retaining some data such as the observations they uploaded. We want to ensure our data ownership and data rights to submitted observations are clearly stated and understood before citizen scientists upload any observation data. Do we need to anonymize the observations, and if so what needs to be anonymized? We would also like you to research and recommend on: What kind of volunteer agreements and terms may we need to enter into with citizen scientists? How does a citizen scientist request their account/data/history be removed? What is the process and considerations by which we remove a citizen scientist from the project? Research relevant Canadian and international laws and regulations related to privacy and data confidentiality Research existing citizen scientist projects for their privacy and personal data standards Your Contribution Use your skills and creativity in all aspects to research, identify, and recommend the policies, laws, and standards which might apply to the project, including any the privacy and personal data issues. At the start of the project we will provide a walk-through of our prototype site and content. We will also provide a wealth of background material on the application, its use case, goals and objectives, and even detailed low-level fidelity wireframes. and other recommendations behind the proposed citizen science web application features.

Website SEO Optimization

The Goal Climate change affects current and future generations; adaptation and risk mitigation is necessary. In 2019 we set out to research how software can help deal with the impacts. We have 3 (WordPress-created) websites that support our climate change project and we would like to promote better on search engines: 1. https://fight.climatechange.ca/ (our main climate change research) 2. http://www.deploy.solutions (our public website) 3. http://thanks.deploy.solutions (our thank you website) We are looking for students to help us with SEO optimization on the website content of any ONE of these sites (or one site per team, if you like) and improve our positioning. - Pick a site and review our content, themes, & site structure - Create and document the SEO Strategy - Conduct keyword research and analysis and use SEO guidelines to optimize content and keywords - Review our current WordPress website (content, backlinks, sitemaps, etc.) and suggest specific SEO updates for our websites/pages