Learning On The Beach

Last week, our Biodiversity Monitoring Volunteers had a fantastic couple of days exploring the shoreline and deepening their understanding of local coastal ecology.

On Friday, they were joined by Charlotte Keeley from the Berwickshire Marine Reserve for a day-long training workshop based in Largo Bay. The session included practical, hands-on learning to help us identify and monitor biodiversity on the shore. The group learned to record species accurately, contribute to real data collection, and gained insight into other successful citizen science projects along the coast.

🌊 Huge thanks to Charlotte for an excellent and inspiring session!

The following day, some of the team were back out on the beach, this time working with the Edinburgh Shoreline Project and Rui on a new initiative to establish long-term data collection to monitor temperature changes and climate impacts on coastal biodiversity.

This exciting project will allow us to track how our local environment changes over time – and contribute to a growing national picture of climate effects.

Do you fancy getting more involved with our citizen science projects ?

We would love to have you just get in touch.