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9:30 – 10:00 AM
Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. No registration needed.
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LOVE Environment Data Day 2023
How can data be used to reveal and respond to changes in the world around us? Join the Penn Libraries’ Research Data and Digital Scholarship team and the School of Arts and Sciences’ Data Driven Discovery Initiative during Love Data Week for a daylong series of events exploring the power of data.
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Love Data Week is an international celebration of data, taking place every year during the week of Valentine's day. This year's Love Environment Data Day features a talk on how analyzing whale song can alert us to changing ecosystems, a workshop on analyzing and visualizing renewable energy data, a Zoom panel discussion on big water data and sustainability, and a walking data gathering event in the Woodlands.
Register for events individually using the links below.
Singers as Sentinels: How Whales Can Warn of Changing Ecosystems
10:00 – 10:45 AM
Marine mammals use sound to forage, navigate, communicate, and socialize. Join SUNY Buffalo researcher Dr. Eduardo Mercado for a talk about how analyzing how whales vary their sounds in response to human interactions with the ocean can help us (a) reduce any negative effects of those interactions on whales and (b) understand their vocal actions as biomarkers of anthropogenic effects on marine environments.
Data Analysis and Visualization Using Renewable Energy Data
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
This session will demonstrate how to obtain, visualize, and use selected renewable energy geospatial datasets from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, with a particular focus on Rooftop Photovoltaic Technical Potential in the United States.
Panel Discussion on Water Data (Virtual Only. Zoom link available with registration)
2:30 – 3:15 PM
How can we use data about water to answer big questions about urban water use and sustainability? Join Karen Chow, Executive Director of Data Driven Discovery, in conversation with Ellen Kohler, Director of Applied Research and Programs at the Water Center, and Dr. Chuck Louisell, Chief AI Officer, True Elements.
Embodied Information: Local Trees, Datasets, and You (in person only)
3:30 – 4:30 PM
This workshop will explore tree data in The Woodlands, a historic garden and cemetery within walking distance of Penn’s main campus. In this session, we will experience the small, subjective, and personal side of data: what Giorgia Lupi calls data humanism and Kelly Dobson calls data visceralization. We will visit the Woodlands for a short nature walk and gather our own small datasets based on our experience there. Collectively, we will consider what these small and subjective data experiments can show us, how they compare to other kinds of data collected about the Woodlands, and how small data and big data together can ultimately illuminate different experiential realities of a place or an ecosystem.
Location: Meet in-person in front of Van Pelt Library (Broken Button) for 10-min walk to Woodlands
