Tag Archives: community science

**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 […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> I recently put the question out on the CitSci.org listserv, ‘How do you motivate citizen scientists to see the value of the ‘zero data’ point?’ We had a colorful and sometimes humorous series of replies back and forth from the various PIs on the list, unfortunately, […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Sometime in late 2015, Ocean Sanctuaries is planning to offer an opportunity for San Diego divers to contribute to a citizen science survey of the abundant marine life that has accumulated on the Canadian destroyer ‘Yukon’ since its sinking off the coast of San Diego to […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> UPDATE: We’ve had an amazing turn out for The $10,000 Blue Fellowship Grant.  There have been 7200+ people engaged in the campaign with 400+ votes and 20 submissions.  We could use everyone’s help voting for the submission that they like and also uploading any ideas that […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> A new report presents findings and guidance on the linksbetween citizen science and ocean resource management.  A bit more than a year ago on this blog, we asked a question: “MPAs and Citizen Science: What’s the opportunity?” Since then we’ve been exploring that question through the […]