Museum of Animal Perspectives (MAP)'s - Animal cams/ camera attached to the head of wolves, etc. showing behavior.
http://ping.fm/zaYWv

fwix.com releasing iPhone app this week, enabling users to file news updates photos and videos live from the field.
http://ping.fm/x1Rt5

Boise is one of the cities for "Real Time Local News" on "fwix.com" http://boise.fwix.com/ More fwix info at: http://fwix.com/about

Justice Souter-on spectacular ignorance of U.S. electorate about Govt. they elect people to serve in & consequences
http://ping.fm/BAZ76

I have been reading about "Augmented Reality" on the web. Good article on ReadWriteWeb.
http://ping.fm/z8wqR

Anybody can register as an Encyclopedia Of Life member and add text, images, videos, comments or tags to EOL pages.
http://ping.fm/9KDMy

Encyclopedia of Life has a Facebook fan group http://ping.fm/AvOpS and a Twitter page http://ping.fm/QTIzE

Encyclopedia of Life provides a Flickr page for citizens to submit species images. Tutorial available.
http://ping.fm/EhqQn

Encyclopedia of Life Newsletter - Issue # 5 (and earlier) now available. Very important "citizen science" model.
http://ping.fm/U6Tdh

Average Internet speed slower in US than 27 other countries. ID is 2nd slowest in U.S. ahead of AK.
http://ping.fm/aTa6r

Via ID Outdoors group I created a public Google map for "Goathead" clean up & location projects.
http://ping.fm/Oii6P

Here is a link to one Google Earth 5 KML tour I am working on.
http://ping.fm/XwqBp

Anyone interested in sharing notes about Google Earth KML Tours? I have created a few, but KML code is not intuitive for me.
http://ping.fm/SENrV

Produced a Gigapan of Boise & Treasure Valley from Table Rock & a few telephoto "Snapshots."
http://ping.fm/2tNHd

Viewed GeoWeb 2009 video presentation explaining Primary Biodiversity Data- "What Where & When."
http://ping.fm/c2NA3

The Newbury Astronomical Society has set up "The Twitter Meteorwatch" for Perseid shower Aug 11&12. #Meteorwatch
http://ping.fm/RUyU4

Google Earth Blog provides link to GE5 tour describing the melting of glaciers and flooding of rivers in the Himalayas.
http://ping.fm/nHJQy

Read "Dot Earth" article "In Praise of Activism" by Andrew C. Revkin.
http://ping.fm/7zDhI

Read "Wrong Turn..." article & remembered 2005 ID legislative sessions before GARVEE Highway funds approval.
http://ping.fm/go5ZV

Read article about phosphate mining problems in Southeast Idaho. Have you seen or shot photos of some of these mines?
http://ping.fm/l8nx7

Posted blog entry suggesting a GeoWeb of citizen science projects for Treasure Valley & Boise River Watershed.
http://ping.fm/UcTKv

Treasure Valley & Boise River Restoration and Recreation GeoWeb Project

Today I wrote the following message to a few people related to the upcoming Idaho Environmental Forum Annual Conference which is showcasing Treasure Valley River Restoration and Recreation projects.

I am including a Google Map here to identify the Geographic places that will be discussed at the conference. I can imagine collaborative maps like these linked together to identify thousands of places where restoration and recreation projects are of interest to citizens who may also want to be involved by submitting photographs, data, or attending decision making decisions.

View Treasure Valley River, ID/ GeoWeb in a larger map

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My reason for writing this to you now is to suggest the development of an ongoing Geoweb networking project starting during, and continuing after, the Idaho Environmental Forum Conference next week titled: "A River Runs Through It: Showcasing River Restoration and Recreation Projects."

If you have an interest in this development please reply as soon as possible and I will see if this topic can be briefly introduced at the IEF conference next Wednesday August 12.

I will include some background information about this important topic I hope will be helpful to you. Please share this with other people who you think will be interested.

If you have any questions I will be happy to try to answer them.

Regards,

Gary

Gary O. Grimm

Mountain Visions

gogrimm@mountainvisions.com

http://www.mountainvisions.com

Work phone 208-336-2992

Cell phone 208-585-7512

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http://garyogrimm.blogspot.com

Brief Background and some links of interest. A more complete Biography available upon request.

For many years I have been involved in helping Idaho, northwest and nationwide citizen groups, local organizations, and State and Federal agencies provide rich text, photographic and multimedia information about "geographically located" and "time based" watershed restoration projects. For the past 15 + years many of these efforts have been related to the Internet and the World Wide Web. Many of these web based projects have included opportunities for citizen involvement and engagement.

Over the past few years there has been a tremendous surge in information about web applications that define "The Geospatial Web - How Geobrowsers, Social Software, and the Web 2.0 are shaping the Network Society." This is the title of an important book published in 2007. Many conferences and seminars on related topics are now constantly available worldwide. GeoWeb 2009, Where2.0, Web Squared, and ESRI User Conferences are a few examples. (links below)

Today there is beginning a huge new opportunity for many more citizens who have technical and environmental interests in watersheds to become involved in contributing meta tagged "Citizen Science" and "open source content or data" including photos, GIS data, reports, monitoring studies and other information to appropriate location based or Geoweb sites. As this place and time based information accumulates it will result in the opportunity for any person using the web to locate a wealth of historical and contemporary data about a special place of interest. Citizens with the opportunity to become involved, informed and educated about issues related to these special places will be much better able to actively participate in future decision making processes.

During the past few years I had been attempting to encourage organizers and participants in groups such as the Idaho Environmental Summit and others to develop a system of "Online - All the time" networking discussion efforts related to at least 15 of the major environmental issues discussed during the Summits from 2006-2009. Last fall I produced an Online presentation related to these new Geoweb networking opportunities. This project and my thoughts about it are generally being updated on my Blog, and Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other networking pages. Below is a link to the home page of that presentation, which can serve as a guide to initiatives and projects that can be used for a potential broad based Boise River/ Treasure Valley River Geoweb Watershed project.

Geoweb Common Adventure Networking

Below is a link to interactive and community based watershed web site projects I have been involved in. The first link provides links to several dated projects from the past. We are currently working with the River Menders project in Idaho, the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in Nevada, Jamaica Protected Areas, and the Prince of Wales Island Tongass National Forest in Alaska, and I will provide those links too. I should note we are having current discussions with the Portneuf River Watershed in Pocatello about developing a similar citizen based GeoWeb project as is possible with the Boise River Watershed. I should also mention that we produced the Ridge to Rivers Web site in the year 2000, that could, and should be, updated to include GeoWeb data, discussions and citizen science projects. This could provide a model for other projects throughout the Boise River Watershed.

Mountain Visions Watershed related links

River Menders - Idaho Native Riparian Habitat

Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Water Quality Monitoring Program

Jamaica Protected Areas Trust

Prince of Wales Island, Tongass National Forest 2007 Google Earth tour demo (Web site & 2009 material now being produced)

Portneuf Basin Pulse (The site below contains real time sensor information now for several geographic locations and plans are to more fully develop the web site with many more citizen science location opportunities, geoweb networking, educational programs, etc.)

Boise / Ridge to Rivers Trail System

Below are a few links to the Book and conferences mentioned above:

The Geospatial Web - How Geobrowsers, Social Software, and the Web 2.0 are shaping the Network Society

GeoWeb 2009

Where 2.0 Conference

Web Squared Conference

ESRI International User Conference

Many more references and links available upon request. Please comment here or send to my email address noted above.

Produced several Gigapan images from Yellowstone & Tetons. Can also be viewed in Google Earth.
http://ping.fm/anHcw

"Grand Fountain Geyser" in Yellowstone erupted as I was shooting a Gigapan image last week.
http://ping.fm/WZH2t

Michael T. Jones-Google Earth-promises that most photographs uploaded to web will be geotagged (video)
http://ping.fm/f5Taq