미국 지질 조사(USGS)과 환경 보호국(EPA), 블루 레거시 국제 물 중심의 비영리 단체는 공식적으로 시각화 영양소를 도전 및 정리하고 물 영양소 레벨의 기존 데이터 분석하기 위해 초점을 맞춘 형신 경쟁을 발표했다.

 

오바마 대통령의 기후 데이터 이니셔티브와 함께 작업하는 이번 시각화 영향소의 목표는 해조류의 교육 도움과 저산소증 등 영양소에 관련된 수질 문제를 해결하고 물 데이터 세트를 기존의 통합해 혁신적인 접근을 할 수 있도록 노력한다.

 

 

 

The U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Protection Agency and Blue Legacy International, a water-focused nonprofit organization, have officially announced the Visualizing Nutrients Challenge, an innovation competition focusing on inventive ways to organize and analyze existing data of nutrient levels in water.

 

With $15,000 in cash prizes, the contest encourages participants to utilize government data sources to create compelling visualizations that inform citizens, communities and resource managers about conditions of nitrogen and phosphorus in the nation's waters.

 

The goal of Visualizing Nutrients is to help educate and inspire action to address algal blooms, hypoxia and other nutrient-related water quality issues. The challenge builds on the activities of the Open Water Data Initiative (see "AWRA introduces national Open Water Data Initiative"), working in conjunction with President Obama's Climate Data Initiative, that seeks to further integrate existing water datasets and make them more accessible to innovation and decision making.

 

First Place will receive $10,000, and a People’s Choice Award will receive $5,000. Both winners will have special opportunities to highlight their work in a number of important forums. The competition started on Tuesday, April 7, and will continue through 11:59 p.m., on June 8, 2015.

 

This prize competition is also part of the National Day of Civic Hacking, as well as the broader work of the Challenging Nutrients Coalition. Under the directive of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the coalition was organized with the goal of bringing innovative approaches to the issue of nutrient pollution. The group consists of federal agencies, universities and non-profits.

 

[출처 = Water World / 2015년 4월 10일]