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Using Civic Technology to Map Impacts of Refinery Accidents

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 : 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

Katie Moore , Louisiana Bucket Brigade, New Orleans, LA
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
Katie Moore is Research Analyst with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB), a New Orleans-based environmental health and justice organization.  Ms. Moore works with communities near oil refineries and chemical plants in the state to document off-site impacts of industrial pollution and increase access to information about refinery accidents.  The Bucket Brigade maintains the iWitness Pollution Map, a crowd-sourced mapping tool which allows community members to document the impacts of refinery accidents.  Information from the iWitness Map is used by community members to visualize pollution in their neighborhoods, emergency responders to constrain the time, location and nature of chemical accidents, and by LABB staff in communication with federal enforcement officials.  Ms. Moore will be presenting on the use of civic technology in mapping public health impacts of refinery accidents in Louisiana and the successes of the iWitness Pollution Map platform.

Learning Areas:

Advocacy for health and health education
Environmental health sciences

Learning Objectives:
Evaluate the role and strengths of civic technologies, specifically the iWitness Pollution Map, in mapping public health impacts of refinery accidents.

Keyword(s): Environmental Justice, Community-Based Partnership & Collaboration

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have worked with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade to maintain and operate the iWitness Pollution Map. I have worked with communities across the state who use this technology, compiled and analyzed data from this tool and communicated its results to both community members and enforcement officials. I have a BS in Environmental Geology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and have a background in community based research.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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