The second in our series of research posters developed by our staff and presented at the third annual Mountains in the Changing World (MoChWo) conference is available as a PDF by selecting the link below. MoChWo 2018 – Motivations for Citizen Scientists, Perception vs. Reality It has been interesting to evaluate what factors have an influence on…
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The first in our series of research posters developed by our staff and presented at the third annual Mountains in the Changing World (MoChWo) conference is available as a PDF by selecting the link below. MoChWo 2018 – Citizen Science Precipitation Study Included below is an image from the poster of spatially-distributed monthly rainfall in…
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Q: What is your name? A: My name is Sanjog Lama. Q: How old are you? A: I’m 21 years old. Q: Where were you born? A: I was born in Thankot, Panighat. Interviewer’s Note: Thankot is a large village to the west of the Kathmandu District in the Bagmati Zone in central Nepal. It…
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Figure 1. Citizen Science Participants at First Training. In April of 2018, S4W-Nepal launched its first ever Pre-monsoon Citizen Science Flow Campaign. The main objective of this campaign was to assess the spatial variations in discharge of Bagmati River and its tributaries within Kathmandu Valley using the salt dilution technique (there are many variations of…
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Q: What is your name? A: My name is Laxmi Bastola. Q: How old are you? A: I’m 22 years old. Q: Where were you born? A: I was born in Nagarkot Fedi, Naya Basti. Interviewer’s Note: Nagarkot Fedi (Naya Basti) is on eastern side of the Kathmandu Valley roughly 5 km west of Nagarkot.…
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We’re a little bit late on the announcement, but the S4W-Nepal team is pleased to announce that we have moved to a new office in a prime location in Thasikhel, Lalitpur. The office was formally inaugurated by Professor Narendra Man Shakya on March 24, 2018. In his remarks, Dr. Shakya highlighted the significance of research…
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Happy Boxing Day Everyone! This is our fourth interview with one of our citizen scientists who are collecting the data and doing the day-to-day work that makes our project in the Kathmandu Valley possible. We’re excited to introduce you to Sabina Tamang! Figure 1. Sabina with her daughter Aifa. Q: What is your name? A:…
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For this month’s story, we have a special report from a recent conference held in Kathmandu that SmartPhones4Water had the honor of participating in. It was written by two hard-working and creative young scientists on staff with S4W-Nepal who were able to attend the conference. We hope you enjoy! A Report from the Second International Conference on “Mountains…
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We’re excited to present our third interview with one of our citizen scientists that we have the privilege of working with to collect important data about water resources in the Kathmandu Valley! Hope you enjoy Q: What is your name? A: My name is Pawan Giri. Q: How old are you? A: I’m 21 years…
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The overall objective of SmartPhones4Water’s work in the Kathmandu Valley is to assist with generating the data required to guide water management decisions and allow for wise stewardship of water resources, and it has a rather long time scale associated with it. You need continuous data over an extensive period of time to understand how available…
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