One of the research objectives with this project is to understand what motivates people to get involved. With this in mind we have recently sent out a survey to all…
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One of the most important things about any citizen science research project is ensuring that the results you have are consistent and accurate. The problem with scientific research into microplastics…
We recently attended the Citizen Science Association Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Having submitted an abstract to the convention we were delighted to be able to present the findings of…
Loads of great stuff coming into the Big Microplastic Survey project at the moment from all over the world, but we just wanted to highlight a bit more local research…
Delighted to say that after only a couple of days, registrations are coming in from all over the world from people signing up to this programme. So far we have…
One of the things we have already started looking at is the possible link between how silts, sands and gravels move around the coastline, and where we might find plastics. …
The River Thame in Manchester is not the first place you would think off if you were looking for microplastics. However, recent research has shown that it has the highest…
Our first citizen science survey project. On 14 March 2018 after quite a lot of planning we undertook the first of our citizen science survey projects at the entrance to...
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