by Emily Grason | Apr 1, 2025 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
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 shoreline transect...
by Emily Grason | Dec 16, 2024 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
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 for validating all...
by Emily Grason | Jun 18, 2024 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
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, or they may...
by Emily Grason | Nov 17, 2023 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
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 angry pinchers worthwhile? ...
by Emily Grason | Mar 13, 2023 | Community Science, Monitor Resources, Team News
Crabbers from the kick off team at Penn Cove in 2015. Most of the team members featured are still in the mud every month with Crab Team! 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...
by Emily Grason | Aug 17, 2022 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
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 becomes...
