Tag Archives: community science

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Picture a kid, first or second grade, with his head buried in an unweildy bush seeking a picture of a beetle. He’s so excited about said beetle that he’s practically upside-down, branches reaching over his head and down his back. What a crazy outdoorsy kid, right? […]

**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> It’s no secret that California’s marine protected area (MPA) process was rooted in collaboration among ocean lovers of all walks of life; it was one of the key hallmarks of its success. On the North Coast, locals took it to another level, where fishermen, conservationists, tribal […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> California’s first official Pacific Leatherback Conservation Day on October 15 came at the peak of the season for leatherbacks feeding on jellyfish along the state’s coastline. As many as 300 endangered leatherbacks swim the coastline every year in search of jellyfish. Recording and sharing observations of […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> We’ve finished the first stage of the California Citizen Science Initiative, which explores opportunities to engage citizen science in the monitoring of marine protected areas. To get started with this, we first needed to know kinds of programs make up the mosaic of citizen science in […]