Citizen science monitoring in an urban estuary: what have we learned in New York City's Jamaica Bay? 7:30 - 9:00 Observers are well aware that Jamaica Bay is an important spawning site for horseshoe crabs and stopover site for migrating shorebirds. In 2009 with the support of the National Park Service, New York City Audubon initiated a Citizen Science project to systematically monitor horseshoe crabs and migratory shorebirds at several sites in Jamaica Bay during the spring spawning and migratory season to 1) identify important sites and 2) track local population trends. To date our citizen scientists have produced three years of data which are illuminating how important this site is, as well as how it may be changing.
Additional information about the speaker can be found here: http://www.nycaudubon.org/our-staff -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
