BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7dcd9581dea101cd86d79f2fde5f31c581 CATEGORIES:CERF Events & Webinars SUMMARY:CERF Webinar: Citizen Science is Marine Science DESCRIPTION:
Citizen science is a growing phenom enon allowing the non-science public access to data collection, monitoring, and research projects across the spectrum of science. Within projects in w hich scientific outcomes are the primary objective, project structure range s from entirely online (image classification, transcription, and gaming) to entirely “in person” or “hands-on” within the relevant science setting. Ha nds-on, out-of-doors programs requesting that participants repeatedly perfo rm project activities are especially suited for returning high-quality data immediately useful in science and resource management while simultaneously provoking the participants' interests, imagination, and desire to learn ab out the natural world. These projects can advance their data quality throug h expert-led training and well-designed materials, and through independent verification.
Within the marine realm, citizen science p rograms have been used to monitor marine debris and water quality; document species invasions and range extensions; measure the impacts of harmful alg al blooms, fishery bycatch, and climate change; and—most importantly—create a spatially explicit baseline or long-term normal pattern. The Coastal Obs ervation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST) is a 19-year-old citizen science program with ~1,000 active participants collecting monthly data on beached birds and marine debris.
Almost 500 data collection site s are spread across the west coast from Mendocino County, CA, north to Kotz ebue, AK. COASST beached bird data have been used to assess the impacts of an increasingly warm ocean (the northeast Pacific marine heatwave), documen t the effects of harmful algal blooms, and reveal which species are especia lly sensitive to oil spills. COASST participants quickly become highly accu rate and knowledgeable data collectors who value science, remain in the pro gram for years and want to perform the “social functions” of science, inclu ding communicating about program findings and recruiting others to the prog ram.
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Dr. Julia K. Parrish is a Lowell A. and Frankie L. Wakefield Profess or of Ocean Fishery Sciences, and the Associate Dean of the College of the Environment, at the University of Washington. She is also the Executive Di rector of the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), the lar gest beached bird program in the world. Julia has been honored as a NOAA Ye ar of the Oceans Environmental Hero, and has received a Champions of Change award at The White House for her leadership in coastal citizen science. CO ASST has received a USFWS partner of the year award for ongoing work in Ala skan coastal communities.
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