by WSG Crab Team | Apr 1, 2025 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
April 1, 2025 Today is the first day of the 2025 monitoring season and the Crab Team monitoring network is undergoing one of our biggest changes of the last decade. It is with very considered deliberation, discussion, and debate that we have decided to sunset the...
by WSG Crab Team | Dec 16, 2024 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
December 16th, 2024 Tips for taking the best photos of your bin catches Your bin photos may feel as easy as the click of a button, but they are the essential step in the protocol that allows the Crab Team dataset to be used by researchers. Namely, they are the tool...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 18, 2024 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
June 18, 2024 Why measure native species? When it comes to interactions between crabs, whether of the same species or of differing species, size matters. When crabs run into each other out on tide flats, in lagoons, or channels, they might compete for food or shelter,...
by WSG Crab Team | Nov 17, 2023 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
November 17, 2023 We are Crab Team after all, so it’s perhaps no surprise that we are not shy about getting up to our elbows in details about the crabs we catch. But what can we actually learn from looking at size data of crabs? What makes handling all the...
by WSG Crab Team | Mar 13, 2023 | Community Science, Monitor Resources, Team News
March 13, 2023 Crab Team has come a long way since a handful of intrepid early-adopter volunteers put their boots in the mud for our pilot season in August 2015. Since that time, the network has: Increased from 7 to 67 sites, Expanded beyond the Salish Sea to include...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 17, 2022 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
August 17, 2022 This year marks Crab Team’s eighth monitoring season, a fact that completely blows our minds. Some of the Crab Team sites have been systematically sampled since we kicked off in August 2015. As this long term ecological dataset grows even longer, it...