Dr. Sophia B Liu is the first Innovation Specialist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) working with the Science and Decisions Center, the Energy and Minerals mission area, and the Office of Enterprise Information. She is also the Co-Chair of the Federal Community of Practice for Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science (CCS) as well as the CCS Coordinator for USGS and the Department of Interior. During her USGS Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011 - 2015) research on crowdsourcing, citizen science, and civic hacking, she previously worked at the USGS National Earthquake Information Center on the Tweet Earthquake Dispatch project, at the St. Petersburg Coastal Marine Science Center on the "...