Powell River, BC
Jan. 16, 2015
January sampling was carried out in close proximity to the Kelly Creek Community School on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. According to volunteer citizen science coordinator Katherine McLean the school students helped to document the sampling and they saw two sea lions catching herring just off the beach.
Continue reading Kelly Creek Community School Collects January 2015 Fukushima Monitoring Sample
Jan. 15, 2015
Citizen scientist volunteer Karen Clemson collected seawater for the InFORM project on Vesuvius Beach, Salt Spring Island BC.
Vesuvius Beach, Salt Spring Island BC Canada
Jan. 9, 2015
Prince Rupert BC
Collection team for January 2015 was Brittany Fenwick and Michael Standbridge, both students at NWCC. Michael has just started in the Applied Coastal Ecology (ACE) program, and had only been in Prince Rupert for a week. Brittany is taking classes and also works/volunteers at the local fish hatchery. Sampling is being coordinated by Cheryl Paavola (Instructor and Science Lab Tech) at Northwest Community College – Prince Rupert.
Continue reading Prince Rupert Citizen Science Monitoring in January 2015
Coast Tsimshian Academy is our volunteer citizen science partner in Lax Kw’alaams who is helping us collect seawater to monitor for the arrival of Fukushima contamination along our coastline. The picture below shows the January sample being collected from the dock there.
Lax Kw’alaams BC Canada
Raincoast Education Society is our partner organization in Tofino who is working with citizen scientists to help us collect seawater to monitor for the arrival of Fukushima contamination along our coastline. The video below shows a volunteer wading into the surf at Cox Bay to collect seawater today for the project.
Cox Bay Beach, Tofino BC Canada
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