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Cooperative, Collaborative, and Community Science projects are increasingly becoming a valuable source of data for use in the management of living marine resources. These types of projects are providing unprecedented view of the ocean by filling in observational gaps that occur due to timing and cost of more traditional research cruises and academic fieldwork. However, with this opportunity to acquire critical data, a host of challenges need to be considered. For example, ownership of the data, QA/QC protocols, standardized metadata creation, distribution, and privacy concerns due to fishing locations. This session welcomes talks focused on projects that have solved these issues, are in the problem solving phase, or are in the initial planning phase.
Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1. Tracking Data on NOAA Citizen Science Projects and Their Outputs
- John McLaughlin
2. Making Remotely Operated Vehicle video data more accessible through annotations
- Ashley Marranzino, Katharine Egan, Matt Dornback, Megan Cromwell, Adrienne Copeland
3. Fishing for data on the west Florida shelf
- Brendan Turley
4. Crowdsourced Bathymetry Data - Addressing National Skepticism to Help Map the World’s Seafloor
- Jennifer Jencks, Georgianna Zelenak, Payton Cain, Chris Slater, Jesse Varner
