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Volunteer Voices: The discovery of a European Green Crab on San Juan Island

Volunteer Voices: The discovery of a European Green Crab on San Juan Island

by WSG Crab Team | Oct 18, 2016 | Community Science, Detections

October 18, 2016 You’ve heard a lot from us about sightings of the European green crabs that have occurred over the past two months. But we thought you would enjoy hearing about the experience of the first discovery from the Crab Team volunteers who made it. Craig...
How to get your “Eyes on the Beach” like a pro

How to get your “Eyes on the Beach” like a pro

by WSG Crab Team | Oct 6, 2016 | Community Science, Monitor Resources

October 6, 2016  The recent captures of invasive European green crabs, the first documented in Washington’s Salish Sea, have garnered a lot of recent media attention. We are thrilled that local residents are eager to help protect shorelines from this global invasive...
Building Citizen Science With Volunteers As Partners: Part 1

Building Citizen Science With Volunteers As Partners: Part 1

by WSG Crab Team | Mar 16, 2016 | Community Science

2015 was a pilot year for Crab Team monitoring. Here, in a series of two posts, Natalie White, an undergraduate in the UW Program on the Environment Capstone Program, will share the work she did to understand the volunteer experience during our pilot year. In a third...
Building Citizen Science With Volunteers As Partners: Part 2

Building Citizen Science With Volunteers As Partners: Part 2

by WSG Crab Team | Mar 16, 2016 | Community Science

2015 was a pilot year for Crab Team monitoring. This is the second of two post in which, Natalie White, an undergraduate in the UW Program on the Environment Capstone Program, shares her work to understand the volunteer experience during our pilot year. In...
Building Citizen Science with Volunteers as Partners: Part 3

Building Citizen Science with Volunteers as Partners: Part 3

by WSG Crab Team | Mar 16, 2016 | Community Science

The field of citizen science has grown explosively over the last decade, benefitting from excellent PR, Presidential shout-outs, advances in big data, and, not least, a Web 2.0 world replete with hashtags, networks, and crowdsourcing. It turns out people love doing...
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