Projects

Crayfish Monitoring Program for Educators

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

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant

Derelict Trap Reward Program

This project engages the fishing community to remove marine debris and quantify impacts in Mississippi Sound. 

Restoration/Clean-ups

Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium

Diadromous Fish Research and Management

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

MIT Sea Grant

Drowning Hotspots in the St. Louis River Estuary: Characterizing, Forecasting, and Risk Communication

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.

Mapping/Tools/Computer-Based

Minnesota Sea Grant

Dune Restoration & Research

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. 

Restoration/Clean-ups

New Hampshire Sea Grant

Eel Monitoring

In collaboration with the New Hampshire Fish and Game in volunteers participate in daily monitoring to observe American Eel migrations.

Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology, Fisheries Management/Seafood

New Hampshire Sea Grant

Eyes on Seagrass

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 Sea Grant

Fishermen Led Injury Prevention Program

This effort seeks to better understand and prevent non-fatal injuries in the West Coast commercial Dungeness Crab fishery.

Fisheries Management/Seafood

Oregon Sea Grant

Florida Horseshoe Crab Watch

Florida Horseshoe Crab Watch helps understand crab population numbers by documenting movements, reappearances of tagged horseshoe crabs and beach locations.

Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

Florida Sea Grant

Florida Microplastics Awareness Project

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).

Microplastics/Debris

Florida Sea Grant

Florida Water Watch

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.

Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification

Florida Sea Grant

From Seeds to Shoreline

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!

Restoration/Clean-ups, Naturalist/Stewardship

South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium

Great Goliath Grouper Count

This is a fisheries CS Program that relies on volunteer divers to collect fisheries data on goliath grouper.

Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology, Fisheries Management/Seafood

Florida Sea Grant

Green Crab Surveys

Volunteers search the coast for green crabs sighting to evaluate the potential for a commercial fishery to help control this nonnative species. 

Invasive Species, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

New Hampshire Sea Grant

Hawaiʻi and Pacific Islands King Tides Project

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.

Climate/Weather, Coastal Processes/Shoreline/Erosion, Flooding/Water Level

University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant

Horseshoe Crab Spawning Survey at Big Stone Beach

A horseshoe crab spawning survey is conducted to collect data needed to manage the Delaware Bay population of horseshoe crabs.

Fisheries Management/Seafood, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

Delaware Sea Grant

iSeaTurtle

iSeaTurtle, was created to encourage and involve citizens to contribute to sea turtle science.

Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

Texas Sea Grant

LA Coastal Naturalist Training

This training course brings together traditional and scientific knowledge about coastal regions to be used to foster effective interpretive programs.

Naturalist/Stewardship

University of Southern California Sea Grant

Lake Erie Charter Boats Water Quality Monitoring

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.

Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification

Ohio Sea Grant

LIMPETS - Long Term Monitoring Program and Experiential Training for Students

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

University of Southern California Sea Grant

Marine Invasive Monitoring

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

Alaska Sea Grant

Marine Invasive Species Rapid Assessment

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. 

Invasive Species

MIT Sea Grant

Microplastics

Volunteers assess the quantity and type of microplastics debris collected at beach sites.

Microplastics/Debris

New Hampshire Sea Grant

Mississippi Coastal Cleanup Program

Citizen science marine debris monitoring and outreach.

Restoration/Clean-ups, Microplastics/Debris

Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium

Mississippi Master Naturalist

Coastal Processes/Shoreline/Erosion, Invasive Species, Naturalist/Stewardship, Restoration/Clean-ups, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology, Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification

Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium