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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Shoresearch

Data are available to be reused from various locations including the Shoresearch data portal and the NBN-Atlas once they are fully verified. Data are also shared through other partnerships.

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Known uses

Whilst some Shoresearch data are available through the Shoresearch data portal and through the onward data flow to the NBN described in the previous section, data re-use has also occurred through other partnerships.

Natural Resources Wales have used Shoresearch for monitoring invasive species, Cornwall Wildlife Trust worked together on a project with Natural England to ascertain where it would be valuable to support the monitoring of sites of special scientific interest. South West Marine Ecosystems have also used Shoresearch data to support their work.

Shoresearch would like their data to be more openly available, and to be able to reuse it and do more with it, in the future they would like to work with universities and encourage master's students to analyse the data.

Licenses

Shoresearch data are shared under the CC-BY licence.

Re-use of other data

Shoresearch constantly network and try to collaborate with others, for example, the Environment Agency with water quality monitoring. Shoresearch is just one of the Wildlife Trust’s projects, they do link up internally with other local projects and feed into local marine strategies.

[Shoresearch sharing image] — The Marine Biological Association

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