Shoreline monitoring toolbox: protocol implementation and data management
Presentation Abstract
The Shoreline Monitoring Toolbox provides standardized approaches to monitor shorelines in the Salish Sea. The online toolbox was launched in August 2014 (wsg.washington.edu/toolbox) and includes more than 15 protocols for physical and biological monitoring, such as beach profile, sediment size, beach wrack, birds, insects, fish, and wrack invertebrates. In the last few years, citizen science groups have been incorporating protocols into their shoreline monitoring plans, and there is now a need to develop resources that will further toolbox implementation and broaden application through creation of a centralized database for use by toolbox user groups. We will review aspects of protocol development and training, data management, and how results are and will be communicated in the future. We will also provide case study examples of analyzing data, and how data can be used to illustrate both status and trends, and effectiveness of beach restoration. An emphasis of toolbox users has been to monitor the effectiveness of shoreline armoring removal, which is generating information that can be used in guidance to encourage more and better informed armor removals. By developing and maintaining a database that can house data as collected and encourage future analyses, results from individual monitoring projects can be combined and more effectively communicated to broad audiences.
Session Title
Building Effective Citizen Science Projects for the Collection of Influential Data
Conference Track
SSE15: Data and Information Management
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2018 : Seattle, Wash.)
Document Type
Event
SSEC Identifier
SSE15-215
Start Date
5-4-2018 4:15 PM
End Date
5-4-2018 4:30 PM
Type of Presentation
Oral
Genre/Form
conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events)
Contributing Repository
Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Shoreline--Monitoring--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Marine animals--Monitoring--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Volunteer workers in science--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Research--Data processing
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
Rights
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Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Shoreline monitoring toolbox: protocol implementation and data management
The Shoreline Monitoring Toolbox provides standardized approaches to monitor shorelines in the Salish Sea. The online toolbox was launched in August 2014 (wsg.washington.edu/toolbox) and includes more than 15 protocols for physical and biological monitoring, such as beach profile, sediment size, beach wrack, birds, insects, fish, and wrack invertebrates. In the last few years, citizen science groups have been incorporating protocols into their shoreline monitoring plans, and there is now a need to develop resources that will further toolbox implementation and broaden application through creation of a centralized database for use by toolbox user groups. We will review aspects of protocol development and training, data management, and how results are and will be communicated in the future. We will also provide case study examples of analyzing data, and how data can be used to illustrate both status and trends, and effectiveness of beach restoration. An emphasis of toolbox users has been to monitor the effectiveness of shoreline armoring removal, which is generating information that can be used in guidance to encourage more and better informed armor removals. By developing and maintaining a database that can house data as collected and encourage future analyses, results from individual monitoring projects can be combined and more effectively communicated to broad audiences.
