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DASSH Feedback Form
"It’s been fantastic working with DASSH over the years—they’ve played a big part in helping us turn thousands of rock pool records from our community events into meaningful, accessible data. From our earlier Blue Recovery project to our ongoing work on the Big Rock Pool Challenge, DASSH have always been brilliant partners—supportive, knowledgeable and always keen to help us make our citizen science count. They make sure the amazing marine life our volunteers find doesn't just stay in the notebook, but becomes part of the bigger picture for marine research and conservation."
- CEO, The Rock Pool Project
"The folk at DASSH are, and have been for many years, a leading light within UK marine biodiversity data community. I am always surprised with how much DASSH achieves, they are small team but have a huge impact! DASSH are central, not only to direct delivery for users but also in providing leadership and mentoring for other professionals like myself. Without DASSH the UK marine data community would not have made so much progress and they are key to our future."
- Oliver Williams, Senior Data Manager, Cefas
"Julie helped me to navigate Medin at the beginning of our work undertaking net caught contracts, something pretty alien to me. She always helps with any queries I've had over the last few years and gets back to me really promptly."
- Claire Taylor, CPR Survey Laboratory Manager
"I have a dataset of marine vertebrate monitoring data for the UK. Since discovering DASSH I have gone through the entire website (for completeness), downloaded 200+ species datasets, requested data and information from the DASSH team which they provided very quickly. DASSH has been the catalyst of a long but fascinating journey I've set on to better understand marine species, monitoring programmes and marine data management in the UK."
- Laura Fantuzzi, PhD Researcher
"DASSH are a talented team of people who are genuinely committed to the environment. It's been great working with you on a wide range of projects to produce decision support tools for marine managers, from reviewing anchoring and mooring impacts to IUCN Red List assessments and many others."
- Dr Heidi Tillin, Applied Marine Scientist
"The caring anglers really appreciate the super work that you and the team are carrying out with the Spotted rays."
- Anonymous provider of Spotted ray sighting record, following submission to DASSH
"Thank you so so much again for the Young Marine Biologists club session. It was the first time hosting one with multiple speakers so a bit of a trial but I think it worked really well. We are starting to do more activities such as breakout rooms but think there wasn’t as much time with this one to do so. If any of you have any suggestions on how to improve the clubs in the future please let us know!
I just wanted to share some lovely feedback we got from three YMBs that filled in the survey!
What was your favourite part of the club?
Is there any other feedback you would like to share with us? Maybe a little summary quote about the club or your membership!
I find the MBA club is very useful because the wide range of topics helps me find the ones I'm most interested in (and might want to do as a career). Thank you very much"
- Training and Events Coordinator, Marine Biological Association
Find our past Young Marine Biologist talk on the MBA's YouTube Channel