BeringWatch is a valuable standardized, but customizable, tool for recording and communicating significant environmental and ecological events. This approach enables communities to implement rigorous monitoring programs and utilize a well-refined environmental database with a internet-based access system. Two broad categories of environmental data are collected and stored: wide ranging descriptive data through the Citizen Sentinel program and more focused, detailed observations on specific, or focal, species by researchers.
Program name
Alaska Sea Grant
Location
Alaska
State
Alaska
Purpose
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.
Project Topics
Climate/Weather
Naturalist/Stewardship
Project Website