Date
14/11/2023 15/11/2023
Global coastal knowledge via low-cost observation: A Frugal approach to support ocean literacy?
The ocean plays a significant role in the Earth’s system, and understanding its importance is crucial for ensuring sustainable management and exploitation. Ocean observation should not be a task for experts and scientists alone. Citizen science is a form of scientific collaboration where members of the public participate in scientific research projects, providing data and observations that can be analysed by researchers. By supporting citizen science initiatives, policymakers can democratise marine observation science, creating a new type of self-driven, sustainable, and cost-efficient observatory concept, and at the same time, providing for the making of informed decisions based on the best available information.
In recent years more and more low-cost technologies pop-up to monitor marine properties. The “lower” cost technologies offer cost-efficient new methods for researchers, while the really low-cost (approx. under 200 euro’s) offer an excellent opportunity to support citizen scientists in monitoring their environment and participate in science projects.
This workshop brings together the developers of high-potential, and already demonstrated, low-cost sensors, international scientists from the coastal research domain, and representatives from citizen science initiatives. Through a series of keynote speeches, lively pitches of concepts, and discussions on common grounds and potential, this workshop aims to overcome barriers and lay a foundation of more cooperation in the coastal domain.
Topics include:
- General introduction of the landscapes and gaps
- Sensors/Instrumentation – Low-cost technologies for observations in the coastal zone
- Data management solutions
- Visualisation and engagement
- Training and literacy
Location
Fablab
