Projects

Tres Palmas Marine Reserve Monitoring

The Amigos de Tres Palmas is a citizen group in charge of co-management of a marine reserve established in the town of Rincon. The trained volunteers for a Citizen Science Monitoring Project done within MPA boundaries to supplement the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program's dataset and provides a baseline for co-management strategies.

Naturalist/Stewardship, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

Puerto Rico Sea Grant

University of Delaware Citizen Science Monitoring Program

To collect verifiable water quality data to support public policy decisions and to increase public participation and support for the management and protection of the Delaware’s waterways.

Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification

Delaware Sea Grant

Urban Tides Initiative

Urban Tides Initiative: we recruit, train and engage the public in helping to asses extreme high tides, especially in areas needing additional clarity for USGS modelers and city planners.

Flooding/Water Level

University of Southern California Sea Grant

Using Game Cameras to Monitor Mammals on the Lake Erie Islands

To estimate population sizes of mammal species on South Bass and Middle Bass Islands using game cameras istalled by residents and businesses of the islands. 

Naturalist/Stewardship, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology

Ohio Sea Grant

Vermont Lay Monitoring Program

Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification

Lake Champlain Sea Grant

Washington King Tides Program

The Washington King Tides program invites people to visit the shoreline during a king tide or high water event, take pictures of important waterfront locations and help researchers understand how sea-level rise and storm surges our communities.

Flooding/Water Level

Washington Sea Grant

Watershed Alliance

Students take chemical, physical and biological data to engage in stream monitoring (mostly) and conduct lake monitoring. 

Naturalist/Stewardship, Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology, Microplastics/Debris, Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification

Lake Champlain Sea Grant

Watershed Stewards Academy

Master Watershed Stewards seeks to educate communities on area pollution sources in an effort to understand pressing water quality problems, their impacts and potential solutions to limit runoff.

Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification

Maryland Sea Grant

Wisconsin Geotools Project

As part of a research project funded by Wisconsin Sea Grant, we worked with Esri to develop the Wisconsin Geotools. They are paired mobile- and web-based applications that allow citizens to create and map natural and cultural observations of meaningful places in their community.

Mapping/Tools/Computer-Based

Wisconsin Sea Grant