​​MAPPING CITIZEN SCIENCE INITIATIVES WITHIN DIVERSEA

The WP5 team, under the leadership of LPN's Tereza Fonseca, has launched an effort to map and characterize the many citizen science efforts underway within the DiverSea consortium.

The integration of citizen science into marine observation and monitoring is a key objective for DiverSea, and mapping the landscape of skills, resources, and best practices among the DiverSea consortium is a critical step in scaling up these efforts to leverage our citizen science capacity across the whole consortium.

The DiverSea consortium institutions lead a wide variety of impactful, engaging citizen science programs. To highlight just a few examples:

• Engaging the public in logging marine debris with the SMART app, led by the University of Porto
   
• Phytoplankton collection and microscopy with high school students, led by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
   
• Species occurrence data collection with schoolchildren, led by the Institute of Marine Biology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
   
• Collection of data from recreational sailing vessels, led by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology & the University of Gothenburg
   
• Engaging fishers in repeat photography, led by the Mediterranean Conservation Society

Watch for a future update to share the results of the citizen science mapping effort and highlight more exciting DiverSea citizen science.

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