@COASST

Rigorous citizen science. Beached birds and marines debris monitoring for resource management and conservation solutions.

 University of Washington
coasst.org
Joined December 2009
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UW News@uwnews31 Mar 2021
The two-week window between mid-March to mid-April is typically when these jellies wash ashore along the U.S. West Coast. Thanks to citizen scientists, @UW researchers think they know why these mass stranding events happen when they do.
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‘The blob' and a squeeze of food supplies was to blame for largest-ever seabird die-off of common murres in 2015-16, according to new @UW_SAFS, @USGS, @COASST research in @PLOSONE washington.edu/news/2020/01/…
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Volunteer researchers with @UW @COASST Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team are tracking plastic & other debris washing up on #PugetSound beaches to protect sea life from #marinedebris in the world's oceans.
Sheryl and Todd Ramsey with Gretchen Waymen-Palmer, volunteer researchers with University of Washington COASST, in the wood zone of Point No Point beach. Photo: Eric Wagner

ALT Sheryl and Todd Ramsey with Gretchen Waymen-Palmer, volunteer researchers with University of Washington COASST, in the wood zone of Point No Point beach. Photo: Eric Wagner

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Volunteer researchers with @UW @COASST Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team are tracking plastic & other debris washing up on #PugetSound beaches to protect sea life from #marinedebris in the world's oceans.
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound@EoPugetSound21 Oct 2019
Tracking the trash: Inside a Puget Sound marine debris survey eopugetsound.org/magazine/ma…
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Update 8-29-2019: NPS reports on the seabird die off, a trend occurring in Alaska for the last five years. Studies show these bird have died of starvation due to record-breaking warming waters in the region. For more details, visit the link below. nps.gov/subjects/aknatureand…
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Defender of Drayton! Margarette also volunteers with Crab Team & just made a new detection of European green crab near California Creek during a @COASST survey. #CitSci networks create a pathway for volunteers to have a big impact on their communities! wsg.washington.edu/egc-drayt…
Northwest Straits Foundation@NWstraitsfnd22 Aug 2019
Great story! Citizen science empowers those in our community to make a real difference. Thank you for your effort Margarette! thenorthernlight.com/stories…
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What led to more than 3000 puffin deaths in the Bering Sea? UW @COASST researchers find out. environment.uw.edu/?p=72261
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Thousands of seabirds starved to death in the Bering Sea, and the @washingtonpost reports that mass seabird die-offs are becoming more frequent as a result of low food supplies (forage fish) and climate change. ow.ly/RZz530oQJlD #SaveTheSeabirds #BirdsTellUs
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Citizen science is a powerful new concept. This must-read book provides much needed guidance around the practice of citizen science and provides case studies from marine & coastal conservation routledge.com/9781138193222 @FedCitSci @COASST @EuCitSci @CitSciAssoc @1People1Reef
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VERY COOL: helping science while walking the beach, lessons learned from 17 years of running the @COASST project to identify dead birds on US west coast beaches. Excellent retention of participants. fish.uw.edu/2019/02/helping-… paper: pnas.org/content/116/6/1894
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Wow! Standing room only at inaugural Fish and Wildlife Ecology Seminar! Thanks to QCons and Wirsing labs for organizing. Huge thanks to our speaker, @WDFW’s Scott Pearson. Join next week for @EVRegehr on polar bears. depts.washington.edu/wacfwru… @UW_SEFS @UW_SAFS @UWCoEnv
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"Inuqtaq learning to hunt ugruk was to going to be his way of grounding himself, connecting to the Inupiat who hunted the waters of the Norton Sound for millenniums. His way of knowing where he comes from," writes @laureliivanoff nyti.ms/2CV6UTa
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Team "Super-cool" (including a remote participant who is in 12th grade!!) presents an app they created for iOS and Android, as well as a connected webpage that allows user todownload #citizenscience-collected data on #marinedebris @H4tsS @COASST – at Seattle, WA
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Team "Coassting to Victory" demonstrates their app to identify and tag #marinedebris @H4tsS @COASST #hackforthesea – at Seattle, WA
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Just updated! Our first challenge has been announced - Development of a mobile focused app to allow users to photograph and submit time and geo-tagged images of marine debris to a centralized database via @COASST. Are you up to the challenge? bit.ly/2wGqugf
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Hot off the presses. WA State Marine Debris Action Plan. #nrccorp was proud to be included in the development of this plan. There is so much to do but amazing energy around tackling this pervasive problem. @NOAADebris @NWStraits @SF_Washington @COASST marinedebris.noaa.gov/report…
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COASST retweeted
CitSci@CitSci13 Aug 2018
New Paper! Exposing the #Science in #CitizenScience: Fitness to Purpose and Intentional Design, Integrative and Comparative Biology; buff.ly/2M0qgLu @AndreaWiggins Contact us if you'd like to be put in touch with one of the authors! @ICB_tweets @COASST
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The birds we are most likely to see today on Sable, and that we have examined previously for #plastic #pollution - the offshore feeders in the region - thanks to @COASST for the great guides!
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Join @COASST on July 1 from 12-6 for a training on how to handle beached seabirds, happening at SSSC. Learn how to identify and count washed up bird carcasses, and contribute to a larger monitoring project. Visit our FB page for info #seabirdsurveys #citizenscience
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Case closed? Scientists blame massive bird die-off on the Blob: geekwire.com/2018/caused-201… H/T @uwnews @COASST
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