{"id":19601,"date":"2018-05-03T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T17:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/?p=19601"},"modified":"2020-10-08T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T19:59:19","slug":"monitoring-climate-data-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/monitoring-climate-data-on-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Climate Data on the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-19602 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/raycha-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/raycha-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/raycha-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/raycha-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/raycha-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/raycha-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/raycha.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Monitoring Climate Data on the Web<\/h2>\n<p>Ray Cha<br \/>\n<em>Software Project Manager<\/em><br \/>\nEnvironmental Data and Governance Initiative<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>MITH Conference Room<br \/>\n11:00 am \u2013 12:00 pm, 2:00 \u2013 3:00 pm<\/p>\n<p>Please join us on May 10 from 11:00 am \u2013 12:00 pm in MITH for a presentation by Ray Cha, who is helping direct the efforts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/envirodatagov.org\/\">Environmental Data and Governance Initiative<\/a> (EDGI) to monitor federal websites that provide access to information about climate change, the environment, and energy. The presentation and discussion will be followed in the afternoon (2 \u2013 3 pm) with an informal demonstration to get a more hands on understanding of how EDGI\u2019s volunteers work. Participants are welcome to attend either (or both) sessions.<\/p>\n<p>EDGI is an international network of academics and non-profits addressing potential threats to federal environmental and energy policy, and to the scientific research infrastructure built to investigate, inform, and enforce them. Dismantling this infrastructure\u2014which ranges from databases to satellites to models for climate, air, and water\u2014could imperil the public&#8217;s right to know, the United States&#8217; standing as a scientific leader, corporate accountability, and environmental protection.<\/p>\n<p>EDGI is monitoring changes to thousands of federal environmental agency webpages to document and analyze the way environmental data either disappears or otherwise changes, sometimes in subtle but significant ways.<\/p>\n<p>More about EDGI\u2019s work monitoring federal government websites can be found in their recent <a href=\"http:\/\/100days.envirodatagov.org\/changing-digital-climate\/\">Changing the Digital Climate: How Climate Change Web Content is Being Censored Under the Trump Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on May 10 from 11:00 am \u2013 12:00 pm in MITH for a presentation by Ray Cha, who is helping direct the efforts of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) to monitor federal websites that provide access to information about climate change, the environment, and energy. The presentation and discussion will be followed in the afternoon (2 \u2013 3 pm) with an informal demonstration to get a more hands on understanding of how EDGI\u2019s volunteers work. Participants are welcome to attend either (or both) sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69,74],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Monitoring Climate Data on the Web &ndash; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/monitoring-climate-data-on-the-web\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monitoring Climate Data on the Web &ndash; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Please join us on May 10 from 11:00 am \u2013 12:00 pm in MITH for a presentation by Ray Cha, who is helping direct the efforts of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) to monitor federal websites that provide access to information about climate change, the environment, and energy. 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