Engage and train citizen scientists and student interns in diadromous fish passage and habitat restoration projects, population distribution and movement studies, ecosystem characterizations, food web analysis, the use of stable isotopes in ecological analyses, ecosystem connectivity through diadromus fish movements, telemetry tracking, and scientific research field and lab methods, and fisheries management.
Fisheries Management/Seafood, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology
Project objectives are to: (1) Characterize historical drowning locations, as well as potential drowning areas under current and future conditions; (2) Forecast imminent drowning hotspots.; and (3) Increase water safety knowledge among recreational users of the St. Louis River, and share data and tools with the local search and rescue community.
The Coastal Research Volunteers work with UNH’s Coastal Habitat Restoration Team to restore and maintain healthy dunes in New Hampshire and Massachusetts by engaging volunteers to plant native grasses, install sand fencing, post educational signage, and actively survey the dunes to document sand gains and losses.
Volunteers receive training (in-person or virtually) and monitoring gear, and will work in teams of at least two to conduct seagrass surveys at an assigned site. When and how frequently volunteers are expected to conduct surveys varies by site location.
Coastal Processes/Shoreline/Erosion, Naturalist/Stewardship, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology, Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification
Florida Horseshoe Crab Watch helps understand crab population numbers by documenting movements, reappearances of tagged horseshoe crabs and beach locations.
Citizen scientists collect and analyze water samples from around the state for the presence of microplastics (also tied to an outreach component to have people reduce plastic waste).
Individuals are trained to take monthly water samples, analyze the samples, and input their readings in an online database. Not only can they see the results in real-time, but the data is given to local resource managers to fill a gap where county or state monitoring does not exist.
From Seeds to Shoreline® (S2S) is South Carolina’s only salt marsh restoration program designed for students! By getting your school involved in cultivating and transplanting young seedlings of salt marsh grass, your students will not only learn about the importance of this critical coastal ecosystem, but they will be helping restore areas of salt marsh. There’s no better way to learn, serve our local communities, and have fun in the process!
The University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program’s Hawai’i and Pacific Islands King Tides Project needs your help to document today’s high water level events, also known as King Tides, to better understand tomorrow’s impacts from sea-level rise and other coastal hazards.
To train charter captains to collect water samples in Lake Erie to augment the scientists' data and educate people on the science that addresses water quality issues.
LiMPETS is an intertidal citizen science program that monitors the coastal ecosystems of California and helps youth develop a scientific understanding of the ocean.
Naturalist/Stewardship, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology
Participants conduct surveys for green crabs (Ketchikan) and tunicates and other invasive species (Ketchikan, Kodiak, Unalaska) to better understand the range of these invaders.
Invasive Species, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology
The primary objective of these surveys is to identify native and introduced marine species in order to assess the introduction status and range extensions of documented introduced species, and to detect new introductions.
This is a project that works to establish Monarch waystations and tag individual migratory Monarchs on their way to Mexico to better understand the changing population.
MPA Watch trains volunteers to observe and collect unbiased data on ocean users and their activities. Data are meant to inform the management, enforcement and science of California’s marine protected areas and allow us to see how human uses are changing as a result of MPA implementation.
