Citizen Science Case Studies

The case studies below demonstrate the data journey for specific marine citizen science projects, covering their planning, collection, processing, preservation, sharing and reuse. 

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The Seabird Monitoring Programme

Openly accessible data and results from the SMP surveys are shared in a few ways. Click the icons below to find out more.

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Data flow

Data are archived with the NBN, following the standardisation of the data into the required format. The NBN then shares data onwards withGBIF, which makes the data findable and accessible beyond the UK.

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