{"id":23604,"date":"2014-04-01T13:09:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T23:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=23604"},"modified":"2021-11-02T13:56:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T23:56:33","slug":"citizen-science-and-community-engagement-with-ctahr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/01\/citizen-science-and-community-engagement-with-ctahr\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen science and community engagement with <abbr title=\"College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources\">CTAHR<\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/site\/\">College of Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a> is asking for help on two projects of interest to the public. The first is a call to anyone working with coffee plants to help track and stop the spread of a previously unseen virus threatening the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> coffee crop. The second is a crowdsourcing campaign for an educational pavilion in the popular Waim&#257;nalo Research Station.<\/p>\n<h2>Calling all citizen scientists<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23636\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/emaravirus-infected-leaf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/emaravirus-infected-leaf.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/emaravirus-infected-leaf-260x173.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coffee leaf with symptomatic lesions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A new virus first discovered on the Big Island in January 2014 creates lesions on the leaves and petioles of coffee plants and reportedly renders the cherries unmarketable. The virus was first identified through <abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr> plant pathologist Scot Nelson&#8217;s app <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiiplantdisease.net\/%22The-Plant-Doctor%22-app-for-Android-and-iPhones.php\">Plant Doctor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson is asking growers to report symptoms of the disease on their plants so the geographic distribution of the virus can be determined. Share this info with <abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr> either through <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/hawaii.edu\/emaravirus-infects-coffee-in-hawaii\/\">a website to monitor the virus<\/a> or by emailing <a href=\"mailto:snelson@hawaii.edu\">snelson@hawaii.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=6369\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa  news release about the coffee plant virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Coverage on <abbr>KITV<\/abbr><\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitv.com\/news\/virus-may-post-threat-to-big-island-coffee-growers\/25066742\">Virus may post threat to Big Island coffee growers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Coverage on <abbr>KHON<\/abbr><\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/khon2.com\/2014\/03\/20\/researchers-ask-for-help-after-new-coffee-pest-discovered\/\">Researchers ask for help after new coffee pest discovered<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Help raise the roof!<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23635\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pavilion-rendering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pavilion-rendering.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pavilion-rendering-260x151.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rendering of the Learning Pavilion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2013, more than 2,500 people from keiki to kupuna visited the Waim&#257;nalo Research Station for workshops, field days and other educational events related to local agriculture, aquaponics, honeybees, pest control and more.<\/p>\n<p>Since the original classroom collapsed in a 2011 storm, temporary tents have been erected to shelter class and workshop participants from the famous Waim&#257;nalo sun and rain. Recent fundraising efforts have earned enough to build the base and columns of a new Learning Pavilion but not enough for the most important part, the roof. Enter, crowdsourcing. <\/p>\n<p>Crowdsourcing is a method of grassroots fundraising in which individuals, non-profits and many other groups set up campaigns to raise money on websites. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/hawai-i-on-farm-learning-pavilion\">The Learning Pavilion campaign on Indiegogo<\/a> gives people a way to help for as little as $25 and runs through May 18.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=6374\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa news release about the crowdsourcing campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Agriculture and Human Resources is asking for help on two projects of interest to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[222,212,9],"class_list":["post-23604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-agriculture","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-uh-manoa","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23604"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151182,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23604\/revisions\/151182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}