Tag Archives: central coast

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> We’ve reached a turning point in our citizen science blogging experiment on Facing West. Until now we’ve been exploring, here in these virtual pages, a wide range of topics relevant to the challenge of connecting citizen science with management. At the same time we’ve been venturing […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Through the California Citizen Science Initiative, we’re beginning to feel confident that we have identified all of the marine-related citizen science activity in the Central Coast – that’s from Pigeon Point to Point Conception. We filled out our list through a web search and fleshed it […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> November marks the first anniversary of the online community – and our community is the heart of OceanSpaces.  In our first year, we’ve grown to 600+ members, who are broadly engaged across the platform: downloading data; sharing monitoring results; writing blogs and more.  The interactive e-book, […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Throughout many of the conversations we hold with coordinators of citizen science programs, the challenge of maintaining an active volunteer base arises. However, within citizen science volunteerism, there’s no definitive strategy guide for how to recruit and retain best. One example keeps arising in our discussions […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) expressed a goal of maintaining and creating ” conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony , and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.”    In California, […]