Making marine and coastal citizen science matter

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 115, Issue , 2015, Pages 77-87

  Cigliano, John A ^a   Meyer, Ryan ^b   Ballard, Heidi L ^c   Freitag, Amy ^d   Phillips, Tina B ^e   Wasser, Ann ^f  

^a CEDAR CREST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b California Ocean Science Trust   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Virginia Sea Grant   (United States)

^e Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^f Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Coastal conservation; Marine conservation; Toolkit

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; HISTORIC PRESERVATION;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDINGS; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATIONS; MARINE AND COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; MARINE CONSERVATIONS; SPECIES MANAGEMENT; TOOLKIT;

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84943774840     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2015.06.012     Document Type: Article

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