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The findings and technology products resulting from this project are being disseminated in publications, presentations and released to multiple professional and academic communities, including the water monitoring, citizen science, learning sciences, entomology, design and human-computer interaction.

Atlas Citation: Morse, J., Broomall, M., Wenzel, J., Kautz, A., Louw, M. (Eds)  (2020) The Atlas of Common Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Eastern North America. Available from https://www.macroinvertebrates.org/ (accessed 01 September 2020).

Publications

Posters & Presentations

·Roberts, J. and Louw, M. (under review) Negotiating the Contested Spaces of a Digital Boundary Object through Co-design.

Cui, C., Hill, J., Louw, M., and Roberts, J. (2021). Using Log Visualizations to Interpret Online Interactions during Self-Quizzing Practice for Taxonomic Identification. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference.
 
Rockman et al. (2019). Case Study of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Training in Identification Using the Macroinvertebrates.org Website. Retrieved from 
https://www.informalscience.org/case-study-aquatic-macroinvertebrates-training-identification-using-macroinvertebratesorg
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Roberts, J., Crowley, K., & Louw, M. (2018). Creating a Visual Representation of Expert Strategies to Inform the Design of Digital Tools for Citizen Science. In Kay, J. and Luckin, R. (Eds.) Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age: Making the Learning Sciences Count, 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2018, Volume 3. London, UK: International Society of the Learning Sciences. [Article]
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​Louw, M., Muenz, T., Roberts, J., Wilson, M., and Kerlin, S. (2018). Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Identification Trainings for Volunteers:  Results of a National Materials and Practices Inventory Survey. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. Pittsburgh, PA USA. (CMU-HCII-18-104). 
[Technical Report] 

​Huskinson, D. (2018, May). Life Lessons in Three Dimensions. County Lines Magazine. Retrieved online 10/28/18 from https://countylinesmagazine.com/article/life-lessons-three-dimensions [article]

Louw, M., & Crowley, K. (2013). New ways of looking and learning in natural history museums: The use of gigapixel imaging to bring science and publics together. Curator: The Museum Journal, 56(1), 87-104. [article]

Louw, M., Ansari, A., Bartley, C., Sanford, C. (2013) Stories in the Rock: A Design Case for an Explorable Image Viewer in Museums. International Journal of Designs for Learning (4)2. Bloomington, IN: Association for Educational Communications and Technology. [article]



Sanford-Dolly, C., Louw, M., & Roberts, J. (2019). Impacts of an online macronvertebrates observation and identification tool on volunteers' accuracy and confidence in water quality biomonitoring training. Accepted for presentation at the Citizen Science Association Conference, Raleigh, NC, March 2019.

Roberts, J., Crowley, K., & Louw, M. (2018) Creating a Visual Representation of Expert Strategies to Inform the Design of Digital Tools for Citizen Science. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. London, UK. [poster]

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Louw, M. Invited speaker, 2018 OECD Workshop Digital Technology for Science and Innovation – Emerging Topics for Policy and Assessment, 5th – 6th November 2018, Oslo, Norway

Kautz, A.R., Louw, M., Morse, J., Genco, M., and Wenzel, J. (2018) Macroinvertebrates.org: An open-access reference collection of aquatic macroinvertebrates of the Eastern U.S. Symposium: Aquatic Entomology without Borders: A Field That Brings Together All Branches of ESA. Invited poster presented at: Entomological Society of America annual meeting; 14 November 2018. Vancouver, BC, Canada. ​[poster]

​Ma, J., Roberts, J. and Louw, M. (2018). Bringing Big Bugs to the Small Screen: User-centered design of a website companion mobile app. Poster presented at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute - Summer REU Showcase, Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. [poster]

Genco, M., Morse, J., Kautz, A., Wenzel, J., Louw, M. (2017) Learning to See, Seeing to Learn: A web-based macroinvertebrate identification training tool. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Society of Freshwater Science. Raleigh, NC. 2017. 
Best Poster Presentation in Applied Research. 
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Kautz, A.R., Wenzel, J., Morse, J., Genco, M. and Louw, M. (2017) An introduction to Macroinvertebrates.org, a digital teaching collection created using gigapixel image technology. Symposium: Aquatic Entomology: Innovative Strategies in Research, Education, and Outreach. Invited talk presented at The Entomological Society of America annual meeting. Denver, CO. 8 November 2017.


Evaluation Reports
by Camellia Sanford, Rockman et al.


Sanford-Dolly, C., Rockman et al. (2019). Case Study of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Training in Identification Using Macroinvertebrates.org. Retrieved from [ Retreived from https://www.informalscience.org/case-study-aquatic-macroinvertebrates-training-identification-using-macroinvertebratesorg].

Technology Documentation



The site is develop using Collective Access, an open-source collections management database and presentation software designed for museums, archives, and special collections.  It is designed to handle large, heterogeneous multimedia collections that have complex cataloguing requirements and require support for a variety of metadata standards and media formats.  The software is freely available under the open source GNU Public License.

The high resolution specimen photographs displayed on macroinvertevbrates.org were taken by Andrea Kautz at Carnegie Museum of Natural History's Powdermill Research Station using Gene Cooper's GigaMacro Ultra High-resolution Imaging rig and software package.  The images are served by www.gigapan.org, a web service developed by our CREATE Lab partner at Carnegie Mellon University. Chris Bartley of the CMU's CREATE Lab developed site and create a custom Content Annotation Tool (CAT) to place annotated zoomable images with multimedia content overlays.

Macroinvertebrates.org API Documentation (Coming Soon)

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1516149 "Learning to See, Seeing to Learn:
A Sociotechnical System Supporting Taxonomic Identification Activities in Volunteer-Based Water Quality Biomonitoring"


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Learning Media Design Center@CMU
CREATE Lab @CMU
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Clemson University 
Stroud Water Research Center
Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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ALLARM
MD Streamwaders
Senior Environmental Corp
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant #1623969.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF. ​​

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