Ireland, United Kingdom
Samantha Andrews
The Shark Trust Angling Project
The Shark Trust Angling Project
Global
Samantha Andrews
SeagrassSpotter
SeagrassSpotter
Spain
Samantha Andrews
Observadores del mar: Jellyfish Alert
Observadores del mar: Jellyfish Alert
United Kingdom
Samantha Andrews
National Whale and Dolphin Watch
National Whale and Dolphin Watch
United Kingdom
Samantha Andrews
Marine Conservation Society: Big Seaweed Search
Marine Conservation Society: Big Seaweed Search

CoastSnap

Location: Australia

Topics include: Coastal Changes

The next time you visit a NSW beach, why not become a beach scientist by helping us measure how beaches erode and recover over time due to changing ocean conditions? Visit a CoastSnap station to measure the shoreline and amount of sand on the beach by taking a photo with your smartphone and sharing it through our app or on social media. Your snap will add to a community database that we use to map shoreline change and learn how different beaches respond to changing ocean conditions. Community beach monitoring can help to improve how we manage treasured coastal environments.

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Coastal Nature Challenge

Location: UK

Topics include: Marine Life

We're on a mission to spot and record as many different coastal wildlife species as possible this National Marine Week! We are challenging people up and down the coast of the North West to get out and look for wildlife on their local coastline. Whether that’s searching for shells on the strandline, looking into crevices and rockpools, exploring the critters that live in our mudflats, or discovering flowers in the sand dunes - we want to know what you see and where you see it!

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Clean Coasts Observer

Location: Ireland

Topics include: Litter

Are you a curious type, that nerds on all things nature? Would you like to learn more about the marine environment whilst contributing to scientific studies that aim to improve and protect our environment? If so, you’ve found your new calling as a ‘Citizen Scientist’. Citizen scientists are members of the public who contribute to scientific studies through data collection, analysis, or reporting. To highlight this important and empowering role, we launched the ‘Clean Coasts Observer’ initiative in 2021. The initiative aims to inform Clean Coasts volunteers on coastal and marine topics, while also giving them the skills to become citizen scientists. The initiative will feature Clean Coasts citizen science reporting on marine litter surveys, in addition to promoting national studies in areas like biodiversity, climate, geology, and pollution monitoring.

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Citizen Fins

Location: UK

Topics include: Dolphins

Welcome to Citizen Fins! This project combines research and citizen science photo-identification data of bottlenose dolphins, to help understand how the pattern of movements of bottlenose dolphins along the east coast of Scotland and into NE England is changing. Knowing about dolphin movements assists population monitoring and evaluation of the potential impacts of offshore developments on these animals along the east coasts of Scotland and England.


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Citclops: Citizens’ Observatory for Coast and Ocean Optical Monitoring"

Location: Europe

Topics include: Ocean Conditions

The Citclops project aims to develop systems to retrieve and use data on seawater colour, transparency and fluorescence, using low-cost sensors combined with people acting as data carriers, contextual information (e.g. georeferencing) and a community-based Internet platform, taking into account existing experiences (e.g. Secchi Dip-In, Coastwatch Europe and Oil Reporter).

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Cetalingua Project

Location: online

Topics include: Dolphins; Whales; Manatees

Do dolphins have “language?” What is the meaning of a humpback’s song? What information does a manatee call convey? Marine mammal acoustic communication is extremely diverse, complex, and many species have neural wiring supporting a potentially sophisticated communication system. Yet in the absence of “Rosetta Stone,” our efforts to decode it have been challenging. Our approach to decoding marine mammal communication is to use large datasets, both audio and video, to analyze behaviors and calls produced by marine mammals in search for individual variation, call categories, and sequential information. This data will be eventually used to conduct the playback experiment to establish the potential function or “meaning” of the call. Understanding form and function of marine mammal communication goes well beyond the quest of whether or not dolphins have “language,” as it has practical conservation benefits: tracking individuals via passive acoustics, warning boaters about the presence of manatees or whales, and using acoustics to evaluate a marine mammal’s health, activities and crucial habitats.

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Bloomin’ Algae

Location: UK

Topics include: Harmful Algal Blooms

Bloomin’ Algae is a Citizen Science app for reporting the presence of harmful algal blooms of blue-green algae. The app helps speed up public health warnings and can help teach you how to recognise the risks to you, children and animals. By sending in your records of blue-green algae, you can help provide a rapid and more comprehensive picture of harmful algal blooms in your area. This will help inform the relevant environment agency, local authority or landowner of potential public health risks in your area so that, if needed, they can provide early warning to the public. As well as recording the location and date of the bloom, you need to submit a photo of the bloom to help us verify your record. Optionally, we ask you to tell us what activities take place at the lake e.g. swimming, dog walking, etc. This is to gauge the potential health risks to people or animals.

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Black Sea Watch

Location: Black Sea

Topics include: Marine Life

BLACK SEA WATCH PROJECT is a joint initiative of Green Balkans NGO, Bulgaria and TUDAV, Turkey aiming/s to raise public awareness on biodiversity of the Black Sea – a fragile ecosystem facing many threats. The developed tools – mobile app for smart phones and website – intend to raise knowledge about the flora and fauna inhabiting the Black Sea and to promote involvement of public into “citizen science” in the region. Collection of data and its submission by users will contribute to studies on on occurrence and distribution of different species in the Black Sea.

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Birds with Fish

Location: USA

Topics include: Seabirds

Are you a coastal Oregon nature photographer? Do you have shots of birds carrying fish or other marine and estuarine invertebrates in their bills or talons? If so, join our effort to learn about what our coastal birds are eating! We’re looking for pictures of coastal Oregon birds – i.e. marine and estuarine birds – that have fish, crabs, squid, octopus or other marine invertebrates in their bills or talons.

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Big Beach Clean Marine Litter Data Collection

Location: Ireland

Topics include: Litter

During the Big Beach Clean, Clean Coasts volunteers are asked to be part of an excellent round the world citizen science data collection project and to carry out marine litter surveys to quantify the amount and types of litter on Irish beaches. These surveys are aimed at heightening awareness about the issue of marine litter and serve as an indicator of the magnitude of the problem. We also encouraged our groups to use the Clean Swell App by Ocean Conservancy.

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Beluga Bits

Location: online

Topics include: Beluga whales

Researchers at Assiniboine Park Zoo are interested in the social structure and natural history of the beluga that visit the Churchill River in Northern Manitoba, Canada. During the summer thousands of beluga whales visit the estuary and at that time. www.Explore.org runs a live streaming underwater video from a zodiac that people around the world can view. During the beluga season (July and August) we ask viewers to capture snapshots when they see the undersides of beluga and when they see marked beluga. From those photos we can tell if the animal is male or female. We can tell the approximate age - if it is an calf, a subadult (grey), or an adult (white). Using marks (scars or pigments) we identify individual whales. However each season thousands of photos are captured and we are looking for help classifying them for analysis.

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Beach Track

Location: Scotland

Topics include: Litter; Animal Strandings

Beach Track enables you to contribute to one of the world’s largest and most extensive datasets on marine strandings and beach health. Through the app you will be able to log survey tracks around the Scottish coast and submit reports of any marine animal carcasses or marine litter you encounter. By taking a walk along a stretch of coast, then submitting your track and observations, you will help us collect vital information about our coastal environments. This information will help improve our understanding of the health of, and threats to marine animals, and in turn help all of us better protect our seas.

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B.C. Cetacean Sightings Network

Location: Canada

Topics include: Whales; Dolphins; Porpoises; Sea Turtles

Did you see a whale? Let us know! Just two minutes of your time helps protect the whales in our waters. When you report your cetacean (whale, dolphin, and porpoise) and sea turtle sightings, large ships in your area will be immediately alerted to the presence of the animals and will be able to take measures to reduce the risk of ship strike and disturbance.

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avvistAPP

Location: Italy

Topics include: Alien or Invasive Species; Jellies

avvistAPP è un’applicazione gratuita nata per aiutare i ricercatori a studiare una specie aliena nuova per l’Adriatico: la noce di mare Mnemiopsis leidyi (per saperne di più visita il sito https://www.inogs.it/it/content/noce-di-mare). Con avvistAPP puoi facilmente segnalare anche la presenza di meduse, delfini e tartarughe. Basta scattare una foto dell’animale e mandarcela tramite l’app. Se non riesci a fare la foto dell’animale visto, mandaci comunque la tua segnalazione spedendo una foto del luogo dell’avvistamento, ci sarai comunque di grande aiuto.

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Anemoon

Location: The Netherlands

Topics include: Seaweed; Sea Snails; Marine Life

Geef je waarneming door! Duiker of onderzoeker in het getijdengebied? Ben je duiker of snorkelaar (MOO-waarnemer) of onderzoeker in het getijdengebied (LIMP-waarnemer), geef je waarnemingen dan door via het ANEMOON-portaal of de ANEMOON-webapp.

Strand- en weekdierwaarnemingen Doe je mee aan het Strandaanspoelsel Monitoring Project (SMP), geef je waarnemingen dan door via het SMP-formulier of de SMP-webapp.

Als je geen duiker bent voor het MOO of niet meedoet aan het LIMP of SMP en je hebt gelet op meerdere soorten op één locatie, één traject of in één km-hok, dan kun je je waarnemingen het beste doorgeven via de streeplijstmodule van Stichting ANEMOON op Verspreidingsatlas.nl. Voor je naar de streeplijst-module gaat moet je wel eerst even inloggen.

Algemene streeplijst module van Stichting ANEMOON Streeplijst module voor land- en zoetwaterweekdieren Het voordeel van streeplijsten is dat waarnemingen van alle waargenomen soorten op een bepaald moment en een bepaalde locatie bij elkaar worden gehouden. Streeplijsten maken het mogelijk om verspreidingstrends waar te nemen. Deze streeplijsten zijn ook beschikbaar in de NOVA-app.

Losse waarnemingen Losse waarnemingen kunnen worden doorgeven via:

groenestrandapp.nl verspreidingsatlas.nl waarneming.nl Het doorgeven van losse waarnemingen is vooral handig als:

het om een bijzondere soort gaat en je hebt niet op andere soorten gelet als je een goede foto hebt. als je niet 100% zeker bent van de determinatie, maar je hebt wél een foto gemaakt. Je waarneming wordt aan de hand van een foto altijd gecontroleerd (gevalideerd) door een expert (validator). Landslakken-project: Duik in een struik Om de twee jaar vragen we mensen speciaal te kijken naar een twaalftal landslakken. Zie hier voor meer informatie en het downloaden van de waarnemingskaartjes en poster.

Vragen over waarnemingen Heb je vragen of ben je niet zeker van je waarneming en maar je hebt wel een foto gemaakt, plaats die dan op onze Facebook-pagina. Je krijgt heel snel antwoord. Als je een foto hebt gemaakt van een soort waarover je niet zeker bent, vraag dan eerst aan iemand van ANEMOON om welke soort het gaat. Dit kan je het gemakkelijkst doen via onze Facebook-pagina. Je krijgt dan snel antwoord.


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Alien CSI Bioblitz

Location: Europe

Topics include: Alien or Invasive Species

There is no sign of saturation in accumulation of alien species (AS) introductions worldwide, while the rate of spread for some AS seems to be increasing. Particular attention must be dedicated to Invasive Alien Species (IAS), i.e., AS that harm biodiversity and ecosystem services, or have a negative impact on the economy or human health. Managing biological invasions depends on accurate, detailed and up-to-date information on occurrences, distribution, pathways and impact of IAS at varying spatial scales across Europe and indeed globally. The challenges of gathering information on AS are recognized, but recent developments in citizen science, that is, the involvement of citizens in data collection or analysis for research projects, provide an opportunity to improve data flow and knowledge on AS. Further, it ensures effective and high quality societal engagement with the issue of IAS.

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Algal Blooms Sweden

Location: Sweden

Topics include: Harmful Algal Blooms

Algal Blooms Sweden is a marine Citizen Science project aiming at engaging the general public to help survey and, ultimately, forecast harmful algal blooms (HABs). The information provided in the form of reports is used in the development of an innovative AI-based prognosis tool for predicting these recurring events. Extensive ocean data for essential variables related to HABs (e.g. nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations), satellite data of bloom formations, weather, sunlight, temperature and chlorophyll concentrations are publicily available, yet information at the local scale is scarce. By involving citizens in this process of data acquisition, we are able to improve our prediction models and it becomes an invaluable resource for transforming the way we do research.

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Adopt a Wreck

Location: UK

Topics include: Wrecks; Diving; Heritage

The Adopt a Wreck scheme was originally devised in 2000 with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The scheme serves as a way of encouraging the public to actively record the sites they are visiting and everyone who has adopted a site is encouraged to submit their work for the annual Adopt a Wreck Award.

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