Tag Archives: research and monitoring

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Hello! I am looking for YOU to participate in this survey if you have recently been a part of, or served as a mentor in, a coral reef-related citizen science program. This survey is being used for student research by an undergraduate at Stetson University, FL. […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> We are about to wrap up our 2015 survey season with our most challenging expedition of the year, the North Coast MPA Baseline Assessment.  After an exciting year of processing video collected during the 2014 season – which included six different projects that spanned the entire […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Since we at Ocean Sanctuaries have been working with them over the past year or so, I wanted to put in a plug for Citsci.org, which provides tools for the entire citizen science research process including: creating new projects, managing project members, building custom data sheets, analyzing collected data, and […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> The 2015 seabird breeding season at Castle Rock National Wildlife Refuge is almost complete! While Brandt’s Cormorant and Western Gull chicks are still at the island, the most numerous seabird nesting at this island—Common Murre—has recently returned to the sea with their chicks. Since 2006, live […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> We’ve reached an important milestone in the South Coast marine protected area (MPA) baseline monitoring period! Technical reports from 9 monitoring projects in the South Coast MPA Baseline Program are now available for you to read.  These reports provide a first look at the results of […]