Tag Archives: community science

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> On Feb. 11, 2015, Barbara Lloyd, Founder of Ocean Sanctuaries, presented an abstract called: IDENTIFYING SEVENGILL SHARKS IN SAN DIEGO WITH ‘WILDBOOK‘ Barbara Lloyd and Michael Bear, Citizen Science Director, Ocean Sanctuaries.org; Jason Holmberg,http://www.wildme.org/wordpress/ “Our goal is to attempt the identification of Sevengill sharks (Notorynchus cepedianus) […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Ocean Sanctuaries is pleased to announce that we will be presenting at the 2015 Citizen Science Conference on Feb. 11, 2015. Citizen Science 2015 is the inaugural conference of the Citizen Science Association (CSA). It will be held at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California, […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Please join us on Facebook, where we (Ocean Sanctuaries) have set up a page devoted to the latest in ocean-related citizen science–we have over 700 members and are growing fast:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/citizenscientistsoftheocean/

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> I stood on the “landing pad” at the Mendocino Headlands site, also known as Pipeline, catching HSU students as waves pushed them one at a time onto the flat rocky outcropping which made this site dive-able. I saw the swell coming and signaled Jeramiah to wait, […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Friendly reminder: Ocean Sanctuaries offers 2 Citizen Science shark observer apps–both free: 1. National Geographic’s  ‘Fieldscope’ Citizen Science app, modified for our ‘Sharks of California‘ program and available on Google Play here:  http://tinyurl.com/m3ed4yy as well as for iPhones at:http://tinyurl.com/px7sw2s 2. The Shark Observer app, for logging […]