Project Goal: Allow women of the Women in Science and Engineering Residence (WiSER) program at Clemson to define, investigate, and communicate questions of sustainability through the use of citizen science.
Focus for 2016-2017: Water Sustainability: Thinking globally and acting locally.
Description: Students defined and investigated water sustainability under four major theme areas (one selected per group). Throughout the project students performed research and analysis at regional and/or global scales to explore the importance of the issue identified. Simultaneously, the groups collected data using mobile apps to illustrate how the issue identified is expressed on Clemson’s campus and performed analyses and created visualizations of this data to communicate Clemson’s effectiveness as a steward of our water resources.
Specific sustainability questions addressed by the student groups:
Fall 2016 Final Projects
Taking on Runoff
This Story Map documents the negative effects of run-off and addresses the persistence of algal blooms globally. It also visualizes crowd-sourced data and images of engineering solutions on Clemson's campus attempting to limit run-off and identifies locations where an engineering solution is still needed.
This StoryMap describes risk factors for increased mosquito activity and documents areas on campus where students have reported being bitten by mosquitoes. It also outlines actions that students and the university can take to limit mosquito-driven disease.
This StoryMap examines water efficiency on Clemson's campus, comparing fixture efficiencies between old and new buildings. Awareness of water efficiency is important to get students invested in improving water efficiency and more inclined to change their own water use habits.