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    From tree spotters to beach brigades: a golden age of citizen science

    Jul 19, 2018 4 minutes
    Gary Beauvais, director of the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Wyoming, speaks about their work with citizen science and other outreach activities, on April 29, 2018 in Laramie, Wyoming. A cardboard figure of Charles Darwin is seen behind him.

    Wallis Sands State Beach doesn’t lose an inch of sand without this team noticing.  

    Claudia Gilmartin and Sylvia and Lee Pollock have driven from their homes in Maine to this small beach in Rye, N.H. – their trunks packed with clipboards, neon stakes, and a rope-yardstick measuring apparatus – at least once a month for the past two years.

    Each time they visit, Mr. and Ms. Pollock leapfrog the measuring rope down the beach and yell out elevation numbers while Ms. Gilmartin carefully records the measurements.

    Gilmartin and the Pollocks aren’t ecosystem specialists. They are retirees turned beach profile monitors, thanks to the Coastal

    A growing corps of citizen scientistsReal science for all?  

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