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The Power Plant Mapping Student Project, Kelsey Tayne, Tom Oda Aug 2014

The Power Plant Mapping Student Project, Kelsey Tayne, Tom Oda

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The Power Plant Mapping Student Project: Bringing Citizen Science to Schools

Kelsey Tayne1, Tom Oda2

1STEM Teacher and Researcher (STAR) Fellow, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132

2NOAA ESRL, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO 80303

Emissions inventory (EI) is a conventional tool to monitor changes in anthropogenic emissions and can visually show geographical patterns of emission changes. The EI community is aware of significant errors in the geographical locations of point sources, including power plants. The Power Plant Mapping Student Project (PPMSP) is a platform designed for students in 4th through 12 …