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BE A CITIZEN SCIENTIST!
Contribute to scientific research by collecting data
MARINE DEBRIS TRACKER
Debris Tracker powered by Morgan Stanley is an open-data citizen-science tool. We’ve been tracking litter since before smartphones existed. Debris Tracker unites the power of technology with the power of citizen science to flight plastic and other types of pollution.
Download the app on iPhone or Android and join us today!
SEAGRASS SPOTTER
At Project Seagrass, we’ve developed a conservation and education tool that could lead to new discoveries about one of the ocean’s most under-appreciated habitats – seagrass.
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With SeagrassSpotter, ocean enthusiasts around the world can become citizen scientists who contribute to marine conservation with just a few taps of their phone. We’ve made some important scientific breakthroughs with seagrass in recent years, but they remain incredibly threatened and are still under-appreciated globally.
SECCHI DISK
The phytoplankton in the sea account for over 50% of all photosynthesis on Earth and, through the food web they support, they underpin the marine food chain.
Living at the surface of the sea the phytoplankton are particularly sensitive to changes in sea surface temperature. A recent study of global phytoplankton abundance over the last century suggested that global phytoplankton concentrations had declined by 40% over the last 50 years due to rising sea surface temperatures as a consequence of current climate change.
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We need to know much more about these changes and you can help by making a simple piece of scientific equipment called a Secchi Disk and using the free Secchi app.
Full instructions for the project are included in the Secchi app.
COASTWARDS
Help Science study the risks of sea-level rise by uploading pictures of coasts!
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How will your picture help?
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In a nutshell, it gives science what satellites cannot: A close-up image of a coast. The possibility to study the bigger picture, in as much detail as possible. First, your image will be checked for information on the location it was taken, so we can place it on the map. Then, it will be analysed by scientists and citizen scientists to determine the coastal type at that location. The more images we analyse, the more detail is added to a global map of what types of coasts exist and where. This map is then fed into computer programs, called integrated assessment models, that help scientists make predictions on how different coasts respond under different circumstances. These predictions inform policy makers at national and international levels on which actions to take and which countries need international support. So, your images help scientists give their best advice on how to protect ourselves, our children and our grandchildren from sea-level rise.
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IMANGROVES
The World Mangrove App, 'Mangrove iD', is a botanical guide providing more than 800 select images, 100 world distribution records and authoritative botanical descriptions of all 85 mangrove plant species, hybrids and varieties occurring worldwide; plus a selection of 15 common Associate plants you are likely to come across. It has been compiled and written by Dr Norman C Duke, long time mangrove ecologist and marine science specialist, for MangroveWatch Ltd, the charitable, not-for-profit environmental monitoring NGO for tidal wetlands.
The information and data presented include the latest up-to-date botanical information compiled as part of Dr Duke's Mangrove Flora Project conducted over the last three decades. The purpose of the guide is two-fold: one, to show off the diversity and distribution of these plants; and two, to improve our knowledge of them. You are invited to send in your location data with images to our central database.
CRABFIER
The mobile application dubbed the Crabifier is developed by DLSU’s Center for Environment and Natural Science Research in collaboration with College of Computer Studies.
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​Crabifier is an application that uses the smartphone camera to classify the mud crab species (serrata, tranquebarica, olivacea). The mobile app can measure and distinguish among the three similar-looking crab species at their juvenile stage. As crablets, the three species are difficult to differentiate.