Open Source Environmental
May 31, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM GMT+1 Add to Calendar
Room 2
Jo Walsh
Jo Walsh is a Research Software Engineer at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology here in Edinburgh. New both to open sourece hardware and environmental sensing, they've obtained a Fellowship from the Software Sustainability Institute on the theme of applying the same principles of reproducible, reusable open source research software to hardware.
Shannon Hicks
Shannon Hicks is an electrical engineer at Stroud Water Research Center in Pennsylvania where she designs and builds a variety of environmental sensor data logger systems using open source hardware and software. She's the co-founder of EnviroDIY, an online community of users who share ideas and solutions for low-cost environmental monitoring. Shannon is also the developer of the Mayfly Data Logger, an open-source, Arduino-based board that makes it easy to build monitoring stations with sensors and telemetry modules. She has taught dozens of workshops to a wide range of audiences about how to use open-source tools for environmental monitoring and research.
Débora Swinstun
is Anthropologist (National University of La Plata, Argentina) and Master of Sciences in Urban Development and International Cooperation (Institut d'Urbanisme de Grenoble (France) - Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany)). Through training, research and work experience in Europe, North Africa and Latin America she specialized in co-production of knowledge and public politics, contested spaces, environmental risk and transitions to sustainability. She published in various international journals and her book "Flammable. Environmental suffering in an Argentine shantytown" (with Javier Auyero, Oxford, 2008) won four international awards and inspired several public interventions in the Dock Sud port area (Buenos Aires). Currently she teaches environmental humanities at National Argentines Universities (Buenos Aires) and performes as coordinator, consultant or researcher in various projects about low cost monitoring and evaluation of environmnetal risks, health, forced displacement, and low impact living.
