Projects

Monarch Monitoring

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. 

Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

Ohio Sea Grant

MPA Watch

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. 

Mapping/Tools/Computer-Based, Naturalist/Stewardship

University of Southern California Sea Grant

MyCoast NY

MyCoast NY is a tool used to collect and analyze photos of changing shorelines, inland and coastal flooding, and hazardous weather impacts across New York State. 

Climate/Weather, Coastal Processes/Shoreline/Erosion, Flooding/Water Level, Mapping/Tools/Computer-Based

New York Sea Grant

MyCoast/CoastSnap

MyCoast: Rhode Island is a portal to collect and analyze photos of shorelines across the Ocean State. Information collected by the public is used to capture the impact of flood hazards today, and to illustrate possible future conditions.

Coast Snap: Through use of personal smartphones, the public can take photos of the coast and data will be used to understand shoreline erosion and recovery cycles, and any long-term changes, helping us understand why some beaches are more dynamic or resilient than others.

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

Rhode Island Sea Grant

Nā Kilo 'Āina

A community based monitoring program to actively care for the shoreline and marine ecosystem through ongoing, monthly activities and training. 

Coastal Processes/Shoreline/Erosion, Naturalist/Stewardship

University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant

New Hampshire Volunteer Beach Profile Monitoring Program

Volunteers meet once a month to measure the beach profile to observe long-term patterns of sand erosion and accretion. 

Coastal Processes/Shoreline/Erosion

New Hampshire Sea Grant

Our Project in Hawaiʻi's Intertidal (OPIHI) Program

OPIHI program undergraduate  interns partner with collaborating scientists to collect meaningful data used to characterize the Hawaiian intertidal to determine if and how intertidal organisms’ abundance and diversity is changing over time.

Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology, Naturalist/Stewardship

University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant

Panhandle Terrapin Project

Diamondback terrapins are a flagship species for coastal salt marshes. In the attempt to assess health of estuaries, Florida Sea Grant seeks volunteers to help monitor selected beaches across the Florida panhandle for the presence of these animals.

Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

Florida Sea Grant

Pennsylvania Amphibian and Reptile Survey

The Pennsylvania Amphibian and Reptile Survey (PARS) is an important state-sponsored atlas project launched in 2013. PARS will determine the distribution and status of all amphibians and reptiles throughout Pennsylvania, building upon previous atlas efforts and combining modern technology with an army of citizen scientists

Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

Pennsylvania Sea Grant

Red Tide Rangers

The Red Tide Rangers assess and monitor red tide blooms in Texas Coastal waters.

Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification

Texas Sea Grant

River Herring Monitoring Program

Coordinates and trains volunteer river herring monitoring groups to provide discussions on river herring ecology, habitat requirements, fisheries management, state-wide population assessments, and historic value in Massachusetts.

Fisheries Management/Seafood, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

MIT Sea Grant

Sand Watch

In collaboration with UNESCO, stakeholders are taught to survey and measure different aspects of their local beach geomorphology and water quality parameters.

Coastal Processes/Shoreline/Erosion

Puerto Rico Sea Grant

Shell Day

Coordinate and train citizen scientists to collect and analyze water samples and shellfish specimens from Massachusetts coastal waters.

Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification, Climate/Weather

MIT Sea Grant

Shoreline Monitoring Toolbox

A website to provide information to various citizen scientists and local groups on shoreline monitoring protocols, provide guidance on what type of monitoring might be relevant in different conditions, and provide info about relative skill level and cost requirements of various monitoring protocols.

Coastal Processes/Shoreline/Erosion

Washington Sea Grant

Signs of the Seasons Rockweed Phenology

Volunteers collect biweekly information on rockweed at one coastal location throughout the late spring and early summer. Signs of the Seasons is a program of Maine Sea Grant with whom the NH Sea Grant Coastal Research Volunteer program partners.

Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

New Hampshire Sea Grant

Signs of the Seasons: A New England Phenology Program

A New England Phenology Program has volunteers collect information on 22 indicator species, or Signs of the Seasons, to better understand the biological effects of climate change, and encourage citizens to become part of the solution.

Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

Maine Sea Grant

Soundscape Phenology of Bats of the Lake Erie Islands

To track the timing of bat migrations by detecting the calls of bat species from spring through fall seasons to see if climate change is affecting bat migration.

Climate/Weather, Naturalist/Stewardship, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

Ohio Sea Grant

SoundToxins

SoundToxins, a diverse partnership of Washington state shellfish and finfish growers, environmental learning centers, Native tribes, and Puget Sound volunteers, is a monitoring program designed to provide early warning of harmful algal bloom events in order to minimize both human health risks and economic losses to Puget Sound fisheries.

Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification

Washington Sea Grant

South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Citizen Science Program

The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, with assistance from extension staff from North Carolina, Georgia and Florida Sea Grant, has developed a comprehensive Citizen Science Program over the last several years. The mission is to build and maintain a program that improves information for fisheries management through collaborative science.

Fisheries Management/Seafood

North Carolina Sea Grant

Southern California HABWatch

We train and support partner institutions who collect and analyze plankton samples and post results current results are used by California Dept. of Health for early detection of Harmful Algal Blooms.

Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification

University of Southern California Sea Grant

Southern Maine Beach Profile Monitoring Program

Teams of volunteers across Southern Maine collect coastal beach erosion data on a monthly basis, generating data used to guide beach management decisions.

Coastal Processes/Shoreline/Erosion

Maine Sea Grant

Stakes for Stakeholders: Community Based Erosion Monitoring

Alaska Sea Grant funded researchers and partners created a system for residents to monitor local erosion, installed equipment and trained residents in five Bristol Bay communities. Researchers will expand the program to Utqiagvik with K-12 education and community outreach support by ASG.

Coastal Processes/Shoreline/Erosion

Alaska Sea Grant

Taking it to the streets: Developing an urban neighborhood trash monitoring protocol and education program to reduce coastal trash

Our project goal is to reduce the amount of trash in coastal waterways by improving our understanding of urban neighborhood trash sources through development of standardized protocols and implementation using an experiential education program.

Microplastics/Debris

California Sea Grant

Texas Monofilament Recovery and Recycling

Community project to collect and recycle used fishing line.

Microplastics/Debris

Texas Sea Grant

The Great Scallop Search

This project is to monitor the abundance of bay scallops in the Pensacola Bay System.  

Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

Florida Sea Grant