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Northern CA PPSR Projects 1

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Welcome to our ongoing effort to catalog citizen science and other public participation in scientific research (PPSR) projects for UC California Naturalists and other citizen scientists.  We invite you to browse the listed projects or enter key words (like birds, youth, invasive, coast, Alameda, etc.) in the search box above to find projects in your area. It's a great way to stay involved and keep developing your skills as a natural scientist!

A vast majority of the information in the database was gathered from project websites and may be out of date. We encourage you to contact projects directly to get involved and learn about most recent opportunities. If you work with a listed project and would like to add to, update, or correct the information we have, please email cghdixon@ucdavis.edu. Also, please consider filling out the "PPSR perspectives" survey. Click here to access the survey, which will help guide this project in the coming year.

If you know of a project not on our list, please go to the "tell us about a project" link on the left so we can list the project here. Thanks for your help!

Special thanks goes to the National Science Foundation Informal Science Education program and the Stephen J. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation for supporting this database of projects.

Travel Trawl

  • Organization Name
    5 Gyres
  • Project Website
  • Organization Website
  • Partners
    N / A
  • Contact Name
    N / A
  • Contact Email
    N / A
  • Contact Phone
    N / A
  • Other Contact Information
  • Project Purpose (taken from project materials)

    Understand if plastic pollution exists in the 5 gyres

  • Participant Activities

    Step 1. We send you a trawl with easy instructions
    Step 2. You sail, collect samples and dry them out according to our protocols
    Step 3. You mail the trawl to the next sailor somewhere in the world
    Step 4. We process the samples and import data to 5gyres.org

  • Data Entry
    • Collection Kits
  • Other Participant Activities
    N / A
  • System Studied
    • Marine
    • Pollution Clean-up or Monitoring
  • Geographic Scope
    Statewide
  • Region
    Northern California
  • Location
    North Pacific Gyre (off the coast of California)
  • Location - Map
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Time Commitment
    • Other (see Other Information below)
  • Volunteer Qualifications

    Participants must have their own sail boat and be planning a sailing trip in the northern pacific gyre.

  • Volunteer Training
    N / A
  • Cost to Participant
    N / A
  • How will the findings be used?
    N / A
  • Other Information
    N / A
  • Photo
    N / A
  • last update:
    N / A

If you work with this project and would like to add to or update the information below, please email cghdixon@ucdavis.edu.

If you know of a project not on our list, please go to the "tell us about a project" link on the left so we can list the project here. Thanks for your help!

This database is focused on projects in California focused on the environment. For opportunities outside California, as well as national projects that don't have a California-specific components, check http://www.birds.cornell.edu/citscitoolkit/projects.