Purpose Citizen Science – public participation in scientific projects – is becoming a global practice engaging volunteer participants, often non-scientists, with scientific research. Citizen Science is facing major challenges, such as quality and consistency, to reap open the full potential...

The behaviour of wall-bounded turbulent flows is briefly reviewed, with emphasis on areas which remain open and which are distinct from the problem of turbulence in general. It is argued that the near-wall region is reasonably well understood, at least for smooth walls, but that its interactions...

This paper presents a generic approach to integrate environmental sensor data efficiently, allowing the detection of relevant situations and events in near real-time through continuous querying. Data variety is addressed with the use of the Semantic Sensor Network ontology for observation data...