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John Kerekes

Science without borders: RIT turns public participation into global impact.

The Department of War speaks to John Kerekes, research professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, about the Coastal Hyperspectral Reflectance Object Material Analysis experiment, a part of RIT's Open Community eXperiment (ROCX).

Satellites, planes, drones, canoes, and more were deployed at RIT’s Tait Preserve for ROCX 2025, an open-community, major data-collection experiment.

Professor John Kerekes will spend the next year advising the U.S. Department of State on issues including its air quality monitoring program and Earth Challenge 2020, the world’s largest ever coordinated citizen science campaign. He is one of 11 faculty nationwide to be selected for a 2019-2020 Jefferson Science Fellowship.