{"id":705689,"date":"2021-10-20T14:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T18:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=705689"},"modified":"2021-10-20T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T18:22:40","slug":"citizen-scientists-help-assure-quality-of-coastal-biodiversity-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=705689","title":{"rendered":"Citizen scientists help assure quality of coastal biodiversity monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, history student Rodrigo Gomes found out on social media about a call for volunteers to take part in a scientific project relating to the ocean and conducted by the Federal University of S\u00e3o Paulo&#8217;s Institute of Marine Sciences (IMAR-UNIFESP) in Santos, on the coast of the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. He signed up for the project, took workshops, and trained in the field. &#8220;I was very fortunate to have all that contact with professors and learned a great deal about conservation,&#8221; says Gomes, now a citizen scientist. &#8220;It makes a lot of sense to go on with the project and get other people involved.&#8221;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-10-citizen-scientists-quality-coastal-biodiversity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Citizen scientists help assure quality of coastal biodiversity monitoring<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, history student Rodrigo Gomes found out on social media about a call for volunteers to take part in a scientific project relating to the ocean and conducted by&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}