Tag Archives: research and monitoring

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Depending on the strain of citizen science, people point to cooperative weather observing, water quality, or birds as ‘the oldest’. Each arose in the cultural context of their time and consequently found their appropriate place among the accepted practices in science. Each has also weathered changes […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> A few weeks ago, in preparation for a meeting with Amy Freitag and Ryan Meyer about the California Citizen Science Initiative, a few staff and collaborators from NOAA’s San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) got together to talk about citizen science. Dr. Andy Chang, […]

**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> Like scores of Californians, Dan Robinette is a bird watcher. He spends many blustery spring days hiking across rocky terrain to reach remote bluffs along the North Central Coast in search of seabirds. Bundled in layers to buffer the frigid northwest wind sweeping in off the […]