The Alaska Stranding Network is a group of dedicated volunteers and organizations that help support rescue, stranding and rehabilitation efforts statewide.
Clear environmentally sensitive areas of debris, collect data on the type and quantity of litter picked up, develop a sense of community pride, and increase environmental stewardship.
Utilize trash removal technologies to remove marine debris from beaches and calm coastal or inland waterways. Collect data on items removed by the equipment. Data collected includes item type, amount, and weight.
BeringWatch is a tool for citizen scientists to record and communicate significant environmental and ecological events in order to empower remote communities to better deal with the effects of climate change.
We hope to expand understanding of winter active aquatic insects and their importance to food webs. Specifically, this program will increase our knowledge of how the unique Minnesota climate reveals valuable insights about interactions among weather, water, insects, and food webs for researchers across the globe.
Climate/Weather, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology
Coordinate and train citizen scientist to identify shellfish species in Massachusetts coastal habitats, and record photos and data for a larger regional and national effort to characterize regional biodiversity.
Conceived in 2017, CoAST SB is a community science program enabling volunteers to measure beach profiles monthly at low tide in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties to support efforts in tracking the erosion and accretion of sand along our dynamic coastline.
COASST is a rigorous citizen science project that trains coastal residents to conduct monthly beach surveys on birds, marine debris and evidence of human use of the environment.
The project began as a simple outreach project to increase awareness of coastal change, and recently enlarged to include participation by scientists doing volumetric measurements of the beach.
CoastSnap is a community beach monitoring program that uses cell phone photos taken by beach visitors from a specific location to track how the location’s shoreline is changing over time.
We are developing an apprenticeship to help educate young people about the opportunities in commercial fishing, while educating about the regulations, skills and co-management approach necessary to keep commercial fishing economically, ecologically and socially sustainable.
The CCRG program supports collaboration between scientific experts and local knowledge experts to address coastal challenges and statewide water resource issues.
This project integrates that describes Chesapeake Bay water quality and oyster performance, addressing the question of how oyster performance correlates with environmental conditions.
Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology
The Community Science Salt Marsh Restoration and Monitoring Project involves local communities with salt marsh restoration to support habitat resiliency and ecosystem services.
Researchers partner with blue crab fishermen to collect data to better understand the discard rate and reason of blue crabs from the commercial industry.
Soft shell crab shedders are partnering with university researchers to collect water quality and crab data to better understand the blue crab virus CsRV1 that causes mortality in the industry.
To develop and support a corps of well-informed volunteers that provide education, public outreach, and service in support of our area’s natural resources.
Including educators and their students in community science projects that monitor ecosystems for aquatic invasive species can help increase early detection and rapid response efforts, as well as promote environmental literacy in classroom settings. The data collected from community scientists can also inform management agencies and larger basin-wide surveillance databases, such as the Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species Information System (GLANSIS) and the USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database.
Invasive Species, Mapping/Tools/Computer-Based, Naturalist/Stewardship, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology
