amazon

There’s an App for …the Amazon

Guest Post by Vanessa Eyng The Amazon biodiversity is impressive. Once it comes to fish’s biodiversity, it is even more impressive. The amount of species in the Amazon is huge. The relation between local communities and fishes creates cultural patterns, implies in specifics knowledge and skills, generates income, besides being the fishes the main source […]

BCRS

This summer, why not use the Beach Conditions Reporting System (BCRS)?

Guest Post Written by: Aspen Cook, Laboratory Technician, Outreach Specialist, Environmental Health Department, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida The Beach Conditions Reporting System, or BCRS, is a website (www.visitbeaches.org) and accompanying mobile app developed by Mote Marine Laboratory. The BCRS currently collects and disperses beach conditions from 37 locations along the gulf coast of Florida; however, Mote is working to expand […]

Swim Guide’s new Photo Submission Tool makes Citizen Science more accessible

Swim Guide’s new Photo Submission Tool makes Citizen Science more accessible

    This guest post is by Parker Muzzerall, of Swim Drink Fish. What is Swim Guide? Created in 2011 by Swim Drink Fish Canada, Swim Guide is an international recreational water quality and beach information service available for free on iOS, Android, and the web. People everywhere have a hard time knowing whether their […]

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